2006 GNCC Series Round #8 -The Spartan - Sparta, KY - Race Coverage

Unfortunately for Timothy Wertman, he caught a rut and was pitched off his Honda while rounding an off chamber turn.

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Part Four - The magnets he was wearing worked because his Honda chased him down, but luckily he wasn't hurt and jumped back to his feet to resume the race, and by the end of the first lap, he was back up to 12th. He wasn't finished as he worked his way up into second place and only 8 seconds behind the class winner David Parmerter by the checkered flag, which is an incredible come from beneath the quad ride.

Dennis Switzer grabbed the Holeshot in the Open B Class

Unfortunately, yet another Honda rider ended up on his lid, which had Kevin Johnston in the background searching for some hair.

Back to the Pros, By the end of the first lap, Bill Ballance maintained the lead, but the Rookie, Chris Bithell was applying the pressure.

A train formed behind the Ballance and Bithell with Duane Johnson, Chris Borich, Chris Jenks, and Bryan Cook back in 6th place all running within 2 seconds of each other as the tight woods track kept them bunched together.

The little bit of rain the track received during the Youth Race didn't do much to help with the dust in the Afternoon, which sucked for photos in the fields.

Jeremy Rice was nearly 30 seconds behind the lead pack in 7th place and Brent Sturdivant, William Yokley, Todd Demaree, Johnny Gallagher, Michael Houston, Andy Lagzdins, Santo Derisi, Brandon Ballance, and Adam McGill all formed a train behind him with less than 3 seconds seperating each of them after the first lap, which is highly unusual.

Pro Am Rider, Tyler Lenig had caught up to the rear of the train of Pro Riders and was eating plenty of dust along with Bryan Baker.