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AMA ATV Motocross Nationals
Round #3 - Budds Creek
Mechanicsville, MD
May 5 , 2012
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Joel Hetrick Wins Overall
at Budds Creek AMA ATV Motocross
Yamaha's Chad Wienen &
Can-Am's John Natalie Podium
| 2012
AMA Pro ATV Motocross
Round 3 - Budds Creek |
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Mechanicsville,
MD
(5/6/2012) – Sometimes in
motocross, it’s not always the rider who wins
the races that ends up taking home the overall win.
For Joel Hetrick at round four of the AMA ATV Motocross
National Championship Series, two second place finishes
was enough to put the sophomore rookie on top of
the podium at Budds Creek MX, where he scored his
first overall win of the 2012 season.
Wienen Motorsports/SSi Decals/Walsh Race Craft/Yamaha’s
Chad Wienen continued his five-race win streak
in Moto 1 as he made his way out front immediately
and went on to lead all twelve laps of the race.
But it was Baldwin Motorports/PEP’s Josh
Upperman who grabbed the SSi Decals Holeshot Award
and led for a brief moment before Wienen put himself
into the lead. Hetrick put in a solid second place
finish, coming in less than three seconds behind
Wienen. Upperman worked hard to fend off TBROWN
Yamaha Racing/Moto-X-Perts rider Thomas Brown
to maintain third place in Moto 1, while Brown
finished a close fourth after getting off to a
rough start.
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Pro
ATV Motocross Podium (left to right)
Chad
Wienen (2nd),
Joel Hetrick (1st),
John
Natalien
(3rd)
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DASA Racing's #7 Joe Byrd claimed the ATVriders.com
Fastest Qualifier Award |
ATVRiders.com Fastest Qualifier Joe Byrd landed
the fastest lap time in the morning qualifying
sessions and the veteran made his way up to fifth
place after getting off to a bad start in Moto
1. Motoworks/Can-Am rider John Natalie began the
race inside the top five until he overshot a corner,
causing him to go off the track and lose a significant
amount of time and positions. The Ironman was
able to work his way back into a sixth place finish,
despite his early fumble.
Moto 2 began in a similar fashion as Wienen took
control of the race early on, but this time it
was Joe Byrd on his heels, while Upperman, Natalie
and Hetrick chased from close behind. Byrd went
wheel-to-wheel with Wienen in the early parts
of the race, but as the race wore on, Byrd began
dropping positions, where he eventually settled
into sixth place.
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Motoworks/Can-Am's
John Natalie & Joel Hetrick both secure
podium finishes at Budds Creek |
Wienen also began dropping spots around the halfway
point and it wasn’t long before the points
leader found himself outside of a podium position
for the first time this season. “I got off
to a great start in the second moto and things
were going well until I stuck a rut and kind of
tweaked my hand, but we salvaged a fourth place
out of it,” Wienen said. “I don’t
like not winning but I’m stoked to come
away with some solid points!”
Natalie capitalized on Wienen’s shortfall
and gunned in to take over the Moto 2 lead. The
defending champ didn’t look back as he sealed
the win on this one. “I said at round 2
that I would be back and ready to go as soon as
we got to a real rough track,” said Natalie.
“Well, here we are and we did what we wanted
to do in Moto 2 and that’s win! Unfortunately
things didn’t go as planned in the first
moto, but third overall and a moto win is still
a good weekend!”
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