Reynoldsburg, OH (7/6/2010) -
The 2010 AMA-ATV Motocross Championship season
has been a slow, steady progression for Mushin
Racing's Pro MX'er Cody Gibson. Like climbing
a ladder, one rung at a time, Gibson has
continued his quest to to keep Mushin Racing
on the Pro presence radar,
especially after recovering from an early season
injury and nursing his ride back to his potential
form.
Out of the gate, reminiscent of his '09 form
when he won both national titles in the Pro/Am
classes, Gibson charged off the line at Round
8 of the 2010 Motocross Nationals in Armagh,
PA at Pleasure Valley MX on the 4th of July.
In both motos he headed around the holeshot
in the top three, a prime example of what's
to come as the series progresses and Gibson
regains his health and confidence.
When both Pro motos were in the Round 8 score
books, Gibson, after experiencing strong starts
but fading as the twenty minutes plus two lap
races progressed, managed to bring down his
second consecutive top ten overall finish in
as many rounds.
Mushin Racing's Thomas Brown continues to highlight
the team's commitment to consistency. Brown,
with two podiums on the season in the Pro class
at the 2010 AMA-ATV Motocross Championship series,
has found that on any given occasion all his
race factors will come together and he can,
and will, be a podium factor in each moto of
each event. At Pleasure Valley Brown pulled
down 8-7 moto scores to finish 7th overall for
the event. After 8 of the 11 round season, he
holds onto the 6th place position in the overall
points standings, just twenty or so points out
of the top five.
Mushin
Racing Youth Claim 4 Pleasure Valley
Podiums
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More and more, Mushin Racing's youth team finds
itself standing on the podium at more and more
events of the 2010 AMA-ATV Motocross Championship
series. On the 4th of July at Pleasure Valley
MX in Armagh, PA during Round 8 of this year's
national series, Mushin Racing's Kodi Ward,
Tanner Stockton and Maci Devenport carried the
Mushin Racing colors to the podium in three
separate classes.
In the 90 Automatic Junior (8-11) class, Kodi
Ward put together 1-3 moto scores to finish
the event with a 2nd place finish overall. This
noted Wards second consecutive 2nd place finish
in as many rounds and, after missing two rounds
of this year's series due to an injury, indicated
his desire to continue to climb to the top of
the rankings. After 8 of 11 rounds he found
himself a mere 3 points out of 6th and a meager
5 points away from notching himself into the
top five in the class overall series' standings.
Tanner Stockton, a 90 Auto Senior (12-15) class
Mushin Racing competitor, brought down a solid
3rd place overall finish in the class at Pleasure
Valley and continued his march toward a top
three ranking in the class. After the Armagh,
PA round, Stockton sat in 5th place in the overall
series' class standings, only 4 points out of
4th.
She's got what it takes and, as the 2010 MX
Nationals head into the latter rounds of the
season, she appears to be on a brutal mission
of agitating numerous young male egos. Competing
in the predominately male infested youth classes,
Maci Devenport shows no indications of allowing
the boys to get the best of her. At Pleasure
Valley MX during Round 8 of the 2010 AMA-ATV
Motocross Championship series, Devenport romped
and stomped her way to a 2nd place overall finish
in the 90 Auto Senior (12-15) class and elevated
her overall series' ranking in the class from
3rd to 1st. To add injury to insult to her male
counterparts, she also pulled in a 3rd place
overall finish in the 90 CVT (8-15) class.
