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AMA ATV Motocross
Nationals
Round # 11 - Loretta Lynn's
Hurricane
Mills, Tennessee
August 9-10, 2008
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ATV MOTO TWO
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Racing's Pro Rookie,Cody Miller, ended the
season on a high note with his 2nd best
finish of the season in 7th place Overall,
which earned him a spot in the Top 10 in
points |
Cody Miller was having a good race as well, coming
off the line in 8th place, he worked his way into
the number six spot until the last lap when Josh
Creamer, who was on a mission to claim a spot on
the podium, caught up to Miller. “I heard
a bike right behind me and when I looked over, Josh
was right next to me. I did my best to hold him
off, but then we went into the whoops a little too
fast,” said Miller. Both Creamer and Miller
had to back off the throttle at that point and got
a little squirrelly and that’s when Creamer
made his move to pass Miller, which secured him
the 4th place position in the points race. “I’m
happy that I got 4th in points because it’s
my best so far, but I really wish I would have been
in the top three,” Creamer stated. Creamer
will be attending the Steel City Invitational, which
coincidentally falls on his 23rd birthday. Steel
City will be Josh’s final event for a while,
as he will be going in for surgery on his knee in
early September to have a torn ACL repaired.
Creamer isn’t the only one who will be
having surgery to fix his injuries in the off
season, Can-Am Warnert Racing’s John Natalie
will also be going under the knife after Steel
City. “I have to go in and have my rotator
cuff repaired and I also have a couple of fractures
in my shoulder that I have to have looked at,”
said John, who claimed 7th in points, just three
points under Chad Wienen’s 6th place of
268 points.
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Rage ATV Racing's Harold Goodman secured
another top 10 finish, and finished out
the year in 8th place with a chance at the
Pro Championship in Extreme Dirt Track |
Unfortunately
for Honda's Josh Upperman, a mechanical
failure left him sidelined for the majority
of the 2nd Moto, but his was more than enough
to secure him a 9th Place in the Points
for 2008 |
Harold Goodman, who had a tough time of things
in moto one, took the number eight position in
moto two. Harold had been running very consistently
all season and was a contender for the top five
in the points race, but with Chad Wienen finishing
strong in the last two rounds, he was edged out
of the top five by just 18 points and settled
into the 8th spot only 4 points behind John Natalie
Jr. in seventh.
As they reached the checkered flag, it was Joe
Byrd who took the win. “I really wanted
to get another win before the end of the season
and even though my head broke in the first moto,
I was glad to be back on track in the second one,”
said Byrd, who claimed second in the Nationals
points race and took the ITP Grand Slam Championship.
Byrd had good reason for wanting to end the race
on a high note as he will be one of he few Pros
that will not be attending the Steel City Invitational
on August 30th because Honda has unfortunately
chosen not to support him for that particular
event, even though their bike division will have
full factory backing.
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Pro ATV Motocross
Podium (left to right)
Josh Creamer,
Chad Wienen, Dustin Wimmer
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Although the 2008 season has concluded, there
is still one more race on the AMA Pro agenda.
The Steel City Invitational will be held on August
30th in Delmont, PA and will have the top 20 Pro
ATV racers competing for one last shot at the
podium before many of them head off for some well
deserved R&R or back to the track to get an
early start on training for next season
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