ATVA ITP Moose Racing National Motocross Series Round #7 - Ballance Moto X Bowling Green, Kentucky May 26-27, 2007

For the Sunday Pro Motos, the weather was picture perfect, which attracted a large crowd of spectators out to watch the Pro racing action. The start of the first Moto had Joe Byrd grabbing the ATVriders.com Holeshot Award with Cale Downen and Jeremy Lawson in tow with Yamaha’s Pat Brown getting a late jump off the line starting near the rear of he pack.

#7 Joe Byrd grabbing the ATVriders.com Moto One Holeshot Award

By the end of the first lap, Joe Byrd remained out front followed by Downen and Lawson with Lawson making his move into second by the end of the next lap. Amazingly, Pat Brown, charged his way through the pack and up into fourth place followed by Brock Lyons and John Ragon.

Jeremy Lawson leading Joe Byrd	Cale Downen leading Pat Brown

The top six riders broke up into individual battles with Byrd and Lawson battling for the lead followed by Downen and Brown battling for the third spot with Lyons and Ragon battling for the fifth spot. Out front the battle was intense between Byrd and Lawson as they pair bounced off each other several times with Lawson taking over the lead only to have Byrd regain the spot. Lawson eventually took over the lead and began to pull nearly a two second lead over Byrd and appeared to be well on his way to victory with only a few laps to go before Byrd closed the gap and the battle was on once again for the lead.

At the end of the 11th lap, Byrd made his move on Lawson heading into the “Six Pack’ rhythm section before the finish with the pair colliding and Byrd coming out in front. Once Lawson got back on the track, it was like the air was let out of his sail as he appeared to put it in cruise control for the remainder of the race to easily secure the second spot behind Byrd.

#7 Joe Byrd	#199 Pat Brown

The battle for third was just as intense between Downen and Brown as the pair raced around the track with Brown shadowing Downen for 11 laps, but once Brown made his move to take over the third spot, Downen also dropped well off his blistering pace and finished over 10 seconds behind Brown at the checkered flag and the same was also true for Lyons and Ragon as they battled for several laps with Ragon taking over the fifth spot with Lyons holding onto sixth place with Shane Cochran applying the pressure till the finish line.

#727 Cale Downen	#98 John Ragon