Offroad Motorcycle and ATV Nationals 2009 OMA Racing Series Round #3 - Rio Grande , Ohio Coal Miner XC May 23-24, 2009

Photos and Story By: John Gasso

OMA ATV Racing Round 3 - Coal Miner XC McGill, Adam Wolf, Brian Fowler, Walker Martin, Kyle Hulsey, Bryan

Adam McGill took his Quadtech KTM through one of the refreshing creek crossings at the DP Brakes Coal Miner XC. The West Virginian took top honors at the round three OMA Nationals event.

Rio Grande , Ohio - The Parts Unlimited OMA Nationals series held round three of their ten race national series on Memorial Day weekend in the rolling hills of rural Ohio. Many local riders came out to compete in the event that was co-sanctioned by the Moose Racing Extreme Dirt Series at the Fallon family farm near Rio Grande. After the dust settled, and there was plenty of dust, it was Adam McGill, from nearby West Union, West Virginia taking the checkers aboard the Quad Tech Motorex KTM. McGill developed a gap on the rest of the pack after running his eleven trips of the circuit with consistent lap times nearly thirty seconds faster than the rest of the field. Second place went to the GT Thunder Powermadd Yamaha of Brian Wolf with a time of one hour, fifty four minutes, and nineteen seconds. McGill finished four minutes and two seconds earlier than Wolf. Walker Fowler took third aboard his Maxxis Fasst Yamaha, beating the Dirtworks Hot Cams Honda of Missouri pro Kyle Martin. Fifth and sixth place were also occupied with Missouri based racers with Bryan Hulsey taking fourth place riding his Duncan Racing Dirtworks Honda. John Pitts completed the top five with his Duncan Racing Rekluse Honda. Shawn Hess was the final pro to complete eleven laps of the route aboard his Texas based Houser Racing Maxxis Honda.

Walker Fowler took the holeshot, but ended up with third place after a race that combined dusty field sections with near perfect dirt in the woods of rural Ohio.

“The track today was awesome,” commented race winner Adam McGill. “I really can’t complain a whole lot. The race went really well. I liked the track a lot. Definitely a lot of fast sections, little off-cambers. A little slick, but, I mean, for the most part it was pretty kick a, for sure. I definitely enjoyed it.” McGill had a solid run, passing holeshot winner Walker Fowler’s Maxxis Fasst Yamaha to start the second full lap with a three second lead. A string of laps in the ten minute and thirty second range put McGill in a convincing lead, with most of the other pros barely breaking eleven minutes on a consistent basis. “It was real fast,” said the Ohlins Twinn Air KTM racer “I haven’t been to one of these for a couple years. I’m definitely glad to get out. It was actually really cool. I liked it a lot.”

It was a good day for Brian Wolf at the Parts Unlimited OMA Nationals on Memorial Day weekend. Wolf put his GT Thunder Yamaha on the podium in second place after battling for nearly two hours through the woods and fields of the DP Brakes Coal Miner XC.	The field sections were fairly dusty at round three of the Parts Unlimited OMA Nationals series. John Pitts battled to a sixth place finish behind fellow Duncan Racing Honda rider Bryan Hulsey.

Second place went to the Hyper Flexx Bars Yamaha of Brian Wolf with a final time of one hour, fifty four minutes, and nineteen seconds, beating the Maxxis Yamaha of Walker Fowler by seventeen seconds. Wolf and Fowler battled throughout the day, with Fowler having a slower time on lap three to give Wolf a gap of nearly a minute on lap four. Fowler did manage to make a pass late in the race, and was ahead of Wolf by one second entering the white flag lap, but the battle ended with Brian Wolf through the Moose Racing scoring tent ahead of Fowler. According to Fowler “the track was a lot of fun. It was kind of short, but a lot of fun. Creeks, ravines, hills, fields, it had it all.” While Fowler said it was “a little bit dusty,” but, “I definitely liked it. I got the holeshot and lead the first lap. I’ve never done that before. It was pretty cool.”

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