2006 ATVA MX Nationals Round #5 – Budds Creek - Race Coverage

The Daylight Savings meant getting up an one hour sooner after an extremely long day of racing on Saturday.

At 9AM, I introduced the Suzuki Pit Crew Members of the Day (Landon & John Herbst) to Pat Alexander, which was going to be the beginning of a day that would surely be a conversation piece for this father and son for some time as they had the opportunity to hang out with Team Suzuki for the entire day and meet both Jeremiah Jones and Doug Gust.

They won this prize at the Open House at Ray Wilt in Hanover, PA on Thursday when Lost Creek Cycles, Jason Dunkelberger & Jeff Thompson came down and signed autographs for the dealership visitors along with accepted entries for the Suzuki Pit Crew Member of the Day.

The Herbst may have been pit crew members, but the ATV cleaning job still belonged to Paul and Ryan.

Cale Downen replaced his axle and picked up where he left off yesterday in Pro Am Production by winning the Pro Am Unlimited Heat along with Josh Upperman winning the other Heat, which set the stage for the Pro Am Unlimited Main

An ecstatic Josh Upperman would take the Win in the 2nd Moto to extend his winning streak to five races as he is well on his way to the Pro Am Unlimited Championship

Cale Downen finished in the runnerup spot ahead of racing legend, Rodney Gentry rounding out the top three.

Heather Byrd took the Win again today over Michelle Reiser followed by Jami Luburgh and Paula Shank.

Candace Lee took the Women's Sport Win once again as she is really starting to make a name for herself on the motocross track as she has already proved her speed on the dirt track

With the sun high in the sky and temps hovering around 80 degrees is was finally time for the start of the first Moto, and these brothers were ready with icy pops in hand

Lonestar Racing's Keith Little and the rest of the Pros headed out for their parade lap to check out the track one last time before the start of the race.

The Budds Creek hillsides were filled with a record crowd of spectators and racers for an ATVA Nationals Event in Maryland