20th
Annual White Brothers
4 Stroke World MX Championships
Glen Helen Raceway
San
Bernardino, Californa
April 22, 2007
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Yoshimura's
Kory Ellis Wins Third Consecutive ATV Championship
White
Brothers
4 Stroke MX Championship |
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San
Bernardino, CA (4/22/2007)
– The 20th Annual White Brother Four Stroke World
MX Championship was held this weekend at Glen Helen Raceway
in San Bernardino, CA. This is a premiere event for the
bike motocross racers, but with all the different ATV
national and region series around the Country, it doesn’t
attract, but a few dozen ATV racers annually. Typically,
the largest ATV class is the Pro Class, and it attracted
less than a dozen ATV racers, but there were some top
names among the entries with Kory Ellis, Dustin Nelson,
Josh Creamer, Cycle Chislock, and Dustin Terry among the
Pros.
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#53
Kory Ellis Thre-Time White Bros 4 Stroke World
MX Champion |
The track layout for the Four Stroke Championship was
identical to that of the ATVA MX National held at Glen
Helen last month with all the huge hills, which had
lap times running over 3 minutes long. Just like the
ATVA Nationals, the Pros ran two Motos for 20 Minutes
plus one lap, and with the bikes tearing up the track
all day as well, it would be nearly twice as rough as
what the riders experienced a month earlier as the bikes
created stretches of breaking bumps down the big hills
and rutted up the turns, which was an added challenge
to the ATV racers. It also meant that line choice was
extremely critical, and picking the wrong line would
be costly down the big hills.
For two-time 4 Stroke World Champion, Kory Ellis, it was
just another day at the office as he charged his way through
the pack both Motos to claim overall win and his third-straight
Pro ATV 4 Stroke National Championship.
In the First Moto, it was Dustin Nelson grabbing the
Holeshot followed by Josh Creamer with Kory Ellis starting
near the back of the pack, but several laps into the
race, Ellis charged his way past both Nelson and Creamer
to take over the lead, which he attributed to his poor
start. “I think my bad starts worked in my favor
because I was able to find the good and bad lines by
watching the other riders in the first lap, so on the
second lap, I picked some really fast lines to make
some smart and clean passes on the lead riders as I
worked my way to the front” said Ellis.
Kory Ellis pulled away to nearly a 10 second lead over
Dustin Nelson by the checkered flag with Creamer applying
the pressure to Nelson for the majority of the race,
but was unable to make the pass and settled for third
followed by Dustin Terry and Cycle Chislock rounding
out the top five.
For the second Moto, Big Kid Racing’s Roy Bloodworth
put up $100 for the Holeshot Award, and Kawasaki’s
Josh Creamer snatched the prize with his KFX450R, and
once again, Kory Ellis was off to a mid pack start,
but quickly wedged his way between Creamer and Nelson.
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#9
Josh Creamer |
#94
Dustin Nelson |
Josh Creamer lead the first half of the second Moto
before he opened the door for Ellis on one of the big
down-hills when he tried a new line, which proved to
be extremely rough and allowed Ellis to make the easy
pass for the lead. Ellis was able to check out on Creamer
when his Radiator hose cracked and began to spit fluid,
so Creamer backed off the throttle enough to stay ahead
of Nelson and claim the runners up spot in the Moto
Two and 2nd overall for the day behind Ellis with Nelson
claiming the final podium spot.
“It was a good day, track conditions were great,
but sharing the track with dirt bikes was a challenge
from all the breaking bumps,” said Kory Ellis,
and his sentiments were the norm among all the ATV racers
at the event.
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Roy
Bloodworth present Josh Creamer with his $100
Holeshot Cash |
For Josh Creamer, it not only provided him the opportunity
to fine tune his KFX450R in preparation for the upcoming
WPSA opening round in Georgia next weekend April 28-29th,
and he also went home with a healthy payout from Kawasaki
alone with $2,500 in contingency money for second place
overall. “The KFX450R was working great and the
Pro Circuit engine is right wear we need it to be, and
we are really getting the Elka Suspension dialed in
as well, and I would say we are 100% ahead of where
we were at the Glen Helen National,” said Creamer.
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Top
Three Overall (left to Right)
Josh Creamer, Kory Ellis, Dustin Nelson |
White
Brothers 4 Stroke - Pro ATV Race Results
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Overall
| Riders
Name
| Brand
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1
| Kory Ellis
| Suzuki
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2
| Josh Creamer
| Kawasaki
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3
| Dustin Nelson
| Yamaha
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4
| Dustin Terry
| Yamaha
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5
| Justin Noss
| Yamaha
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6
| K.C. McKillip
| Yamaha
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7
| Jason Fife
| Yamaha
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8
| Jonathan Gauger
| Honda
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9
| Dean Pierce
| Suzuki
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10
| Darrell Patton
| Yamaha
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11
| Cyle Chislock
| Honda
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