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Mission accomplished.Brock Tickle, who is filling in on the season for Aaron Plessinger on the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Team, took second in the first moto and a ninth in the second moto for fourth overall.You might be wondering what happened to the defending champ, Eli Tomac.
He took the win well clear of Ferrandis, who was also far ahead of Jeremy Martin. This time, he was credited with 24Tomac now has a lot of work to do to keep the number-one plate in the short nine-round championship, two of those already run. Despite being one of the most dominate riders of the week, the Australian came away empty handed.“I’m pretty bummed about the DNF because I had the title easily, although those things happen,” said Lawrence. I know I could have come away with a couple of titles, but it just didn’t happen.”Swoll suffered a groin injury in the second 250 moto and elected to sit out the final moto so he could concentrate on the Open class, and when Shimoda also DNFed the final 250 moto, Chilean Hardy Munoz took advantage of the situation and stole the 250 Pro Sport title with a 3-4-3 moto performance.Munoz didn’t know he had won until his mechanic told him after the race.“The track was really rough and soft and I got a good start and tried to do the best I could and be consistent. Last week’s winner Zach Osborne nearly didn’t make it through qualifications. And Barcia is third, 10 points behind Musquin.In the 250MX class, last week’s winner Ferrandis rode well but struggled a bit with his starts, which was so important on this day with the mud and reduced vision. I didn’t know I where I was, I just pushed, and pushed and pushed,” said Munoz.Riding with intense pain, Swoll took control of the final Open Pro Sport moto, and when Lawrence, who went 2-1 in the first two motos, got off to a poor start and could only work his way up into third behind Shimoda, Swoll took the overall win and ended his amateur career with the title in the Open Pro Sport division. Austin Black won the final moto, but a DNF in the first moto left the Suzuki rider out of the title picture.The 250 B class saw Yamaha’s Mason Gonzales take the title with a 1-2-1 moto performance ahead of Suzuki’s Hunter Yoder (2-1-2) and Hunter Yoder (3-4-3).Forty-seven-year-old Yamaha Ambassador Mike Brown proved he’s still got what it takes by outrunning 30-year-old Darryn Durham (Yam) to win the Junior 25+ division. “That was my toughest moto this week. He started off in third and was soon chasing leader Cameron McAdoo.
Finally, Mike Brown took the Vet Rider of the Year Award for his win in the Senior 40+ division.Of the four, Vohland was perhaps the most dominating, sweeping all six of his motos en route to his two titles. The Red Bull KTM riders is an excellent mud rider and it showed this morning. Hampshire got around McAdoo on the fourth lap and never looked back for the next nine laps. After five days of racing, a handful of racers stood out as elite among the rest, and they were recognized with special awards on Saturday evening.The most prestigious award an amateur racer can earn is the AMA Nicky Hayden Amateur Horizon Award, which was awarded this year to Rockstar Energy Husqvarna’s Jalek Swoll based on his performance in the Open Pro Sport class.Jarrett Frye won the Amateur Rider of the Year thanks to his win in the Schoolboy 2 class, while Maximus Vohland won the Youth Rider of the Year with titles in the Supermini 1 (12-15) class and in the Supermini 2 (13-16) class. Qualifying was reduced to one session with no qualifying moto. The third and final Championship motos are in the history books and the Amateur National Champions are crowned at the 2019 Rocky Mountain ATV Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Few racers enter the pros without going through Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Loretta Lynn MX. Lap times are still similar to last week’s, however.Marvin Musquin is the top 450MX qualifier. “Loretta Lynn’s,” along with its months-long qualifying series, has become an institution where amateur racers are evaluated, groomed and recruited for the pro series by factory race teams. I was about eighth off the line and I just started picking riders off one by one.