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Jay Condon cuts it up with fellow super senior riders before the race as usual. Jay almost called it quits for this season after a serious wreck in West Virginia that prevented him from racing the rest of the season. I was surprised to see him in Texas, and he hasn’t missed race since.
It is great to have you back Jay and try to stay on all four wheels this season, so you can have many more to come.
The Super Senior’s no longer start on the same row as the women since the classes have grown this year, so they start one minute back on the 2nd row.
The start of the race had Thomas Waybright grabbing the Holeshot on his YFZ with Billy Burton making a great effort with his Grizzly to hang tight around the turn. Class favoritie, Johnny Gallagher Sr, was off to a slow start as he swung his hybrid 250R/YFZ around the inside.
By the 2nd Turn, Johnny Gallagher made up for his slow start and charged his way up to 2nd place with Billy Burton, Jay Condon, Dan Easley, and others in chase.
As they headed up the hill over the rolling jumps, Johnny Gallagher was able to pull himself within striking distance of Thomas Waybright and would go on to make the pass and take over the lead shortly afterwards.
After a terrific 1st few turns, Billy Burton’s Grizzly shut off on him as he was running in third place and ended his day as soon as it got started.
Johnny Gallagher continued his winning ways in dramatic fashion as he went on to win the race by over 10 minutes and improved upon his season best overall with a 14th Overall.
Great racing Johnny, you give us young fellow inspiration that we have plenty of years of racing left and could only hope to be in the same shape as you when we reach your super senior status.
Thomas Waybright scored another 2nd Place finish in hopes of building up some points before rival Ken Vickerd joins the series once again next round in Steele Creek if history repeats itself. Ken kicked off the series last year in NC and went on to nudge out Thomas for 2nd Overall in a tight points race.
Maryland native, Jay Condon, held on and finished 6th place after completing 4 laps
Stock Class
The women have dominated the AM racing for the past few years, but with the manufacturers stepping up and getting involved in ATV racing, the stock ATVs are becoming faster and better equipped for racing right off the show room floor, so the Stock riders are now starting to dominate the morning races and replace the women on the Podium.
Matt Hanna put on an incredible show in Florida on how to handle a stock YFZ through some of the roughest terrain racer production could throw at him. Matt endured the rough conditions and worked his way to the front to pass Billy Good the long time class favorite and win the stock class and take the Overall by over 3 minutes.
With racer Production stepping up their coverage, they interviewed Matt on the line at round #3.
I (Harlen Foley) have had a rough start to the season similar to last year. I ran in the top three for the entire race in Texas, but ended up colliding with lapped rider less than mile from the finish which knocked me out of top three overall. In Florida, I became ill with the Stomach Flu the morning of the race, and needless to say, I wasn’t able to finish the race without making an extended pit stop, which dropped me back to finish 9th Overall and 8th in the Stock Class.
I headed into Georgia feeling great and looking for podium finish.
Mark Rhodes originally planned to skip out on the series this year to build a house, but the temptation was too much, and with three friends (Shawn Collins, Salvatore Constantion, and Shanna Bradshaw) headed to the races, he made the trip to both Florida and Georgia.
After not riding much over the winter, Mark wasn't his typical self in Florida, but he was feeling much better heading into Georgia.