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Florida Resident, Taylor Kiser grabbed the Holeshot aboard his YFZ, but would end up dropping back to third by the end of the 1st lap behind Josh Allen and the points leader Todd Rothermel.
By the 2nd lap, both Allen and Rothermel would drop out of the lead with Thomas Brown taking over the lead with Taylor Kiser only 3 seconds back, but on the last lap, Taylor Kiser would pass Brown and pull over a minute lead on the way to his 4th Win of the season.
The narrow gate opening heading across the road presented a problem to many riders as they were pushed out into the fence with Greg Foggin becoming the victim this time, which sent him to the back, but he managed to work his way up to 14th by the end of the race.
Marc Marshall also was jammed up at the start and would come from 20th at the end of lap one up to 9th to finish the race.
Greg Lott started his season at the Orange Crush with a 2nd Place finish and 38th Overall, but he has yet to finish in the top 10 since until this weekend at Loretta's when he finally was able to get things together and finished in 4th place and is currently 12th in points.
ATVriders.com GNCC Morning Journalist, Fred Mudd, heads into Loretta's coming off his worst race of the season after starting dead last and only finishing one lap at Big Buck.
At Loretta's he got off to a good start and settle into 9th place for two laps, but he would never finish the last lap, which sent him back to 17th.
Fred won't be at the next two rounds, so if anyone would feels they have what it takes to take photos and write a race report, please send me an email webmaster@atvriders.com because I could use the help especially at Ohio with Youth ATVs back in action.
Michael Heaster started his racing season at Steele Creek, but never finished one lap, but he earned himself an 11th place finish at Big Buck with hopes on improving upon it this weekend, but it wasn't meant to be as he only finished one lap, so hopefully things will come together for him at the Penton.
#70 Pete Stadtmueller got off to his best start of the season with the Holeshot, but when the day was over, he ended up having his worst finish of the season in 10th place, and he is currently 5th in points.
Shane Hughes would go on to win after tracking down and passing Jeffrey Vensel on the last lap. Rob Zimmerman was leading, but never finished the third lap after developing a three minute lead :(
Vet Class
Jeff Brest was up to 2nd in points behind Steve Zapfe, but after wrecking hard at Big Buck, he still wasn't 100% heading to Loretta's with badly bruised hip, but he gave it his best shot to try to salvage some points, but unfortunately, he would have been better off to watch because he ended up getting a sharp pain which caused him to wreck again, and he ended up finishing only two laps.
Jeff dropped back to 4th in the standings, but with throw aways, he still could climb his way back up to the top before season end.
Scott Smalley had his 2nd best race of the season finishing in 6th place and moves up in points to 5th behind Jeff brest.
Loretta's was only the third race of the season for Cale Clarkson, but he is making his presence known with two six place finishes at the previous two rounds.
Cale would go on to finish 7th at Loretta's after dropping back to 15th after the 2nd lap.
Carl Bauer made his first GNCC race this season, and he was obviously happy to be on the line regardless of the conditions, and he would work his way up to 6th place by the end of lap two, but as many other riders, he nevered finished the last lap of the race.
With the Start of the Vet Race underway, This 450R rider grabbed a little more traction than he expected heading across the paved road and it almost sent him over, but he managed to pull it out and hang onto the lead with Jeff Brest right behind him.