AMA/SRT HARE & HOUND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
tions (though not as dusty as
two weeks ago thanks to rain on
Friday night), losing the course,
once again, proved to be the
bane of those in front so Ramirez
pounced when Brabec momen-
tarily got lost.
Ramirez was unable to capi-
talize on it, though. "I had some
issues with the bike," he said.
After tracing it to a clogged fuel
filter, he quickly slapped a re-
placement into the fuel line and
continued to give chase, though
he surrendered a few positions,
which caused him to ride a little
harder than he should have.
"They were a little bit ahead
and I think I rode a little over my
head and hit a rock on the sec-
ond loop and crashed," he said.
"After that, I didn't have a front
brake and I just cruised to get to
the finish."
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Briefly...
After initially being disqualified from
round four for taking an alternate sec-
tion of the course meant for ATVs,
Ivan Ramirez was reinstated and in-
stead penalized, officially giving him
fourth place behind Ricky Brabec,
Jacob Argubright and Nick Burson.
Therefore, going into the race, he sat
third in points behind Burson (102)
and Brabec (88) with 84 points.
Ricky Brabec had a busy weekend.
On Saturday, he and Max Eddy Jr.
teamed up at the inaugural Imperial
Valley 250 near El Centro, Califor-
nia, round two of SCORE's World
Desert Championship. They beat
the WFOx Motorsports Honda team
of Mark Samuels and Ian Young, but
after a review of tracking data, Bra-
bec/Eddy were penalized for miss-
ing some Visual Check Points, giv-
ing them second making Samuels/
Young the winners. "After yesterday's
SCORE race out in the Imperial Val-
ley, today I'm a little bit sore!," said
Brabec. "My fingers are cramping re-
ally good." In addition, he broke the
front brake caliper off about 15 miles
from the finish, just as he'd done at
round one.
Another rider doing double duty
was Western Design Racing TM's
Irving Powers. He led four laps of
the annual Virginia City Grand Prix in
Virginia City, Nevada, on Saturday,
eventually settling for third behind
Justin Bonita and Steven Godman.
Unfortunately for Powers, after the
eight-hour drive south to Lucerne,
the hare and hound didn't go to plan
as his bike lost compression and
quit before the end of the first loop.
Not to be outdone, eight-year-old
Mikayla Nielsen ran away with the
Pee Wee race on Saturday morn-
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HUSQVARNA BACK ON TOP
Jacob Argubright and Husky
return to winning ways in the desert
