AMA/SRT HARE & HOUND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
"It feels great," Burson said at
the finish. "The last one was in
my home town so some people,
I think, kind of thought it wasn't
that big a deal, so to get a win out
of here, that's what I really want-
ed to do. I knew I could win at
home, but now I wanted to prove
to myself I could win other plac-
es. The out-of-state races have
never been my strong suit – I've
kind of struggled.
"But there's pretty much one
line down the middle [of the
bomb]. Before, I kind of didn't
feel as confident to go for it,"
Burson said of the all-important
start. "It was me and Ivan lined
up there and I beat him to that
line. I led pretty much from start
to finish.
"I thought Jake was going to
get me in the beginning," Bur-
son continued. "He was going
fast and I knew he wanted to
get a win. I knew he wasn't in
[contention for] points so if he
got me, I was kind of going to
let him go, then I had an op-
portunity to get him back [after
Argubright had passed Burson].
Literally, he stayed there right
behind me all day. Every time
we made a 90-degree turn, I
would check over my shoulder
and he was always right there.
He had to be riding really good
in the dust."
After two DNFs to start his
hare and hound season, Argu-
bright knew he needed both
to finish and do well in order to
have a chance of winning the
championship on his Motor-
cycleSuperstore.com/Dunlop/
Braking-backed FC 450.
"It was just a lot of nerves af-
ter not finishing the last two," he
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The Dirt Inc. crew gathered the larg-
est purse yet in the series at $3500.
Nick Burson was the first to catch
the hare (local racer Patrick Ful-
lerton) and earned a $500 Can-
yon Honda bonus in addition to the
$1000 he received for the race win.
In addition, the club gave $50 to the
first mini racer to pass the hare (Ful-
lerton) on Saturday as well as $25 to
the first Pee Wee to pass him.
Colton Udall hinted at things to
come when he said of his newly
formed WFOx Motorsports. "If we
can get the funding, I'd love to be
[racing Nationals] all the time," he
said. "I'll be here as much as pos-
sible. I have to defend the [SCORE]
Championship. That's the only thing I
can say for myself, really, is win Baja.
So that's what we're doing - we're go-
ing to go to Baja and try to pull that
off and see how it goes." As for how
much help he gets from his former
employer, Johnny Campbell, Udall
explained, "He kind of helps, but
it's a lot of work [on my end]. I'm do-
ing everything: I'm building the race
bikes, I'm doing the logistics, I'm pre-
running and racing so it's an adven-
ture, but it's why we race dirt bikes,
it's because we love it."
Kolton Christensen suffered two
fractured vertebrae when he crashed
on Saturday while running third in the
Super Mini class. He had surgery in
Boise that night, the surgeons plac-
ing rods in his back to stabilize the
area. He's expected to recover soon.
BTO Sports KTM's Jarett Megla
dominated the Super Mini race, put-
ting time on the field throughout the
five-lap event that took him 1:45:14
and put him over four minutes ahead
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Nick Burson led almost from
the very start to take his
second consecutive - and
second career - National
victory at the Rabbit Creek 100.
