Chris Borich wasn’t given Natalie Jr any slack as he kept him in sights back in the third spot.
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Chris Borich wasn’t given Natalie Jr any slack as he kept him in sights back in the third spot.
Yokley was back in the fourth spot, but less than few seconds out of the lead and pulling away from Smiley back in fifth aboard his Polaris Predator.
#6 Bryan Cook held down the 6th spot with Gallagher lurking in the shadows behind him as he moved his way up through the pack.
#18 Johnny Gallagher was a man on a mission the first lap as he picked off rider after rider with his pink skirt waving in the wind. Unfortunately for Gallagher, his foot would slip off the footpeg in the second lap and get drug under his rear axle, which flared up a previous knee injury and slowed down his valiant charge as his focused changed to just trying to complete the current lap.
#16 Santo Derisi was also off to a great start running in the 8th place ahead of #23 Bryan Baker and #7 Chris Jenks, but he too would run into some bad luck and dropped back to near the rear of the pack early in the second lap
#199 Pat Brown was running strong in his first GNCC race in two years as he tried to hold of the hard charging GNCC Pro Rookie Adam McGill.
By the end of the lap, Jenks would work his way from the rear of the pack to the front into the top 10 ahead of Andy Lagzdins and Adam McGill. Jeremy Rice would drop back to 13th ahead of Rhett Bulter, and Pat Brown would come for the checkpoint in 15th place and no longer had any rear brakes since he forgot one very valuable component in GNCC racing and that is a rear skid plate because unlike MX, there are plenty of rocks and roots to bend rotors and derail a chain.
Pro Am Rider, #28 Chris Bithell lead the way followed by #706 Duane Johnson and both of them were hard on the gas as they worked their way up to 7th and 8th Overall with adjusted time just ahead of Pro Rider Johnny Gallagher in 9th followed by Pro Am Rider #15 James Wahl rounding out the Top 10 Overall.
Unfortunately, #5 Chad Duvall’s last Pro Race of his career would end after only one lap :(
By the end of the second lap, the pit crews kept an eye on the corner of pit row watching for their rider to emerge around the turn