BATTLE BORN MX AT THE SANDBOX

FERNLEY, NV (May 13) – Racers competing in the Battle Born MX (BBMX) spring series returned to the Sandbox for the final time. Rain the previous night set the dirt up for some hard racing.

One class that featured hard and close racing was the 250/450 pro motos. Two riders kind of turned the second moto into their own private duel although third place wasn’t that far behind them.

When the gate dropped Austin Johnson and Austin Serpa took off with Dylan Galliett not far behind in third. Lap after lap they tore around the course usually less than a second apart.

On the final lap Johnson managed to squeeze a gap of about two seconds over Serpa, who had a gap over Galliett. All three finished in that order.

Asked if he knew how close Serpa was to him, Johnson said, “Oh yea, oh yea. The track is easy, not too rough at all.”

Then he thanked, his parents, grandparents and Cliff Campbell at Menace Motorsports and Shawn Palmer.

Later Serpa would win the Big Bike Open moto giving him a sweep of that class while Johnson won the 2-Stroke Open motos.

When the second Schoolboy moto started Trevor Hargett was in the lead but right behind him was Dylan Thorwaldson the moto one winner. It took only a lap before Thorwaldson was on point although Hargett chased him to the end but had to settle for the runner up spot.

“That was a good race, I had a good battle with him until he made a mistake and I capitalized on it,” he said.”The track’s holding up good, getting rough and one the outsides its getting pretty whooped out. First off Happy Mother’s Day to my mom and I wanted to thank my dad and sisters out here for supporting me, Moto Source of course and Fox.”

Thorwaldson also swept the 250/450 Junior class.

Years ago the Sandbox, as the track is known, was the House of Stillmock as Scott and his brother Butch ruled and most times were supreme. This weekend was kind of a replay of those days.

Stillmock went on to win both Club motos with Zach Howell ending up second overall ahead of Sedanna Losey. Although he was the only rider in the 38+ Master Class, Stillmock was first overall in the 38+ race that combined three classes.

After winning the second Club moto he said, “I haven’t been out for a long time racing, probably eight months. Thought I’d come play in the dirt a little bit and it feels good out here. With a new shop, One Eleven Concepts in Fernley, opened up I’ve been so busy but wanted to come play anyways.”

After his final moto of the day Stillmock related how his timing and racing just got better every moto he competed in.

This weekend none of the Women A riders showed up so it was an all Women B show. Hayden Losey came out on top after swapping wins with Lucy Moran, who won the first moto.

They were in a combined event with the 45+ Junior riders, won by Troy Hawkins and the 85cc Supermini, which was won by Colton Chamness, who also won the 85cc Open race as well.

At the top of the age ladder Chris Ober was the lone 58+ Intermediate rider while Larry Mulock was the winner in the 52+ Junior class.

Moving to the bottom of the age scale in the Pee Wee ranks the winners were Garrett Berrington in Beginners, Richard Duncan in the Juniors and Pierson Potratz winning the Open races.

While the Pee Wees race 50cc bikes that don’t need to shift those moving into the 65cc class have to learn how to shift. Zachery O’Neill was the Beginner winner and Rowdy Richardson won both the Junior and Open classes.

Next step on the racing ladder are the 85cc bikes, the fastest small bike class. Otto Acbrecht won the beginner class while Rodger Facey was the Junior winner.

Colton Chamness was one of those riders scoring a double as he won in 85cc Open as well as Supermini.

The last race of the day ended on a high note with a good battle in 125/250 Junior as Chase Rychlik was pursued from the start to the finish first by Payton Kenneson, who ended up third after Kai Kapahee took over second. That was also combined with the Big Bike open where Austin Serpa would finish first overall with Austin Johnson in second.

Now everyone gets a couple of weeks off as the final round of the spring series isn’t until the weekend of June 2/3 when that race will be out at Winnemucca.

REPORTER’S NOTE: There is a photo gallery after the results. Josh Peterson was also taking photos and if you’re interested his website is, www.jspfilms.com.

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• Two of NASCAR’s divisions visited Kansas this weekend. In Friday evening’s Camping World Truck race Kyle Busch started sixth and finished second.

The Monster Energy Cup race was Saturday evening and Kurt Busch has the best finish of the brothers starting eighth and finishing eighth while Kyle started third but ended up 10th

• Once again this reporter will be on Teresa’s Garage Radio Show Tuesday from 2 until 3 p.m. We cover a host of automotive subjects and my preview part is usually heard at 2:15, hope you’ll give the program a listen.

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RESULTS:

Battle Born MX – Round 6

Fernley/Wadsworth MX Track – May 23

* – Only rode in one moto.

• Pee Wees:

+ Beginner: 1. Garrett Berrington,2. Henry Young, 3.Walker Segale, 4.Stephen Warrall, 5. Abigail McIntyre, 6. Chance Hawkins, 7. Wyatt Berrington, 8. Broxton Potratz, 9. Jevin Hubbard, 10. Gavin Clark, 11.  Emily Gonsalez, 12. Gauge Conner,13. Michael McMurry Jr., 14. Parker Geissinger.

+ Jr:1.Richard Duncan, 2. Pierson S. Potratz, 3. Jaiden Roberts.

+ Open: 1. Pierson S. Potratz, 2. Richard Duncan, 3. Jaiden M. Roberts, 4. Garrett Berrington, 5. Broxton Potratz, 6. Abigail McIntyre, 7. Guage Conner, 8. Wyatt Berrington, 9. Jevin Hubbard, 10. Stephen Warrall, 11. Parker Geissinger.

• 65cc:

+ Beg: 1. Zachery O’Niell, 2. Joseph Mitchell, 3. Hugwapi Minder, 4. Pierson S.. Potratz, 5. Aidan Conner, 6. Jace Conner, 7. William Teninty, 8. Gage Carlucci, 9. Austin Bernard, 10. Garrett Berrington, 11. Chance Hawkins, 12. Jaiden M. Roberts, 13. Henry Young, 14. Sage Trebelhorn, 15.  Ayden Orr.

+Jr: 1. Rowdy Richardson, 2. Douglas Pena, 3. Hub Losey.

+ Open: 1. Rowdy Richardson, 2. Zachery O’Niell, 3. Joseph Mitchell, 4. Jace Conner, 5. Austin Bernard, 6. Hub Losey, 7. Chance Hawkins, 8.Sage Trebelhorn, 9. William Teninty, 10. Garrett Berrington.

• 85cc:

+ Beg: 1. Otto Acbrecht, 2. Zachery Paulson, 3. Luke Kunkel, 4. Tsiidopi T. Minder, 5. Connor Clifford, 6. Dawson Daniels, 7. Seth Clark, 8. Ezra L. Arneson, 9. Douglas Pena, 10. Bryce Daniels, 11. Lucas Evans, 12. Max Roby, 13. Lukas Dean, 14. Charlie Grubb, 15. Colton Dickenson, 16.      Christopher Whalen, 17.Danielle Russ, 18. Lanndon Tabor*.

DNS/DNF: Garrett Dean, Truman Belingheri.

+ Jr: 1. Rodger E. Facey III, 2. Grant Bergman, 3. Colton Chamness, 4. Brock Ward.

+ Open: 1. Colton Chamness, 2. Otto Acbrecht, 3. Zachery Paulson, 4. Connor Clifford, 5.Luke Kunkel, 6. Dawson Daniels, 7. Bryce Daniels, 8. Rodger E. Facey III, 9. Brock Ward, 10. Ezra L. Arneson, 11. Lucas Evans, 12. Christopher Whalen, 13. Seth Clark*.

+ Supermini: 1. Colton Chamness, 2. Grant Bergman.

• 58+ Interm: 1. Chris Ober.

• 52+:

+ Jr: 1. Larry Mulock, 2. Doug Wollum, 3. Chris Stone, 4. Patrick L. Fye, 5. Jeff McCollum*.

• 45+:

+ Jr: 1. Troy Hawkins, 2. Doug Wollum, 3. Chad Johnson, 4. Martin Moran.

• 38+:

+ Beg: 1. Jason Daniels, 2. Bill Whalen, 3. Morgan Dickenson, 4. Frank Abrott, 5. Dusty Bernard.

+ Jr: 1. Jason Martinez, 2. Chad Johnson, 3. Jason Rubero.

+ Intrm: 1. Jeromie D. Sorhouet, 2. Sedanna Losey, 3. Matt Wilkins.

+ Exp: 1. Cody Crummett*.

DNS: Kevin Hargett.

+ Mstr: 1. Scott Stillmock.

30+:

+ Beg: 1. Aaron Ward, 2. Michael McMurry Jr., 3.      Cuff Richardson, 4. Brett Stuber, 5. Justin Severne, 6. Jacob Graves, 7. Terry Teninty, 8. Luke Lane, 9. Travis Smith, 10. Richard Porise**.

** – disqualified.

+ Jr: 1. Zach Howell, 2. Nick Petz.

+ Interm: 1. Kenny Fye, 2. Kile Fye, 3. Michael Worrall, 4. Danny Martin, 5. Mikey Chick.

+ Mstr: 1.Dustin Miller.

• 25+:

+ Open: 1. Tim P. Stone, 2. Kenny Fye, 3. Jay Hatchett, 4. Arie C. Lucas.

• Club: 1. Scott Stillmock, 2. Zach Howell, 3. Sedanna Losey, 4. Matt Wilkins, 5. Chris Ober, 6. Danny Martin, 7. Jeromie D. Sorhouet, 8. Larry Mulock, 9. Cody Crumett*, 10. Martin Moran*.

DNF/DNS: Kevin Hargett.

• Womens B: 1. Hayden Losey, 2. Lucy M. Moran, 3. Natalie Russ, 4. Sierra Koch, 5. Claire Petrie, 6. Christina Courtney, 7. Jen Leppek, 8 Angie Figg, 9. Serena Gotto.

• Schoolboy: 1. Dylan Thorwaldson, 2. Trevor Hargett, 3. J.W. Thompson, 4. Nickoli Klemish, 5. Kyle J. Zimmer, 6. Sam Roby, 7. Luke Rechel, 8. Jakob Severne, 9. Blayne Herrear*.

• Open Big Bike:1. Austin Serpa, 2. Austin W. Johnson, 3. Garrett Hueftle, 4. Jacob Kindel, 5. Michael Jepsen*, 6. Corey Riddle*, 7. Arie C. Lucas*.

 

• 2-Stroke Open: 1. Austin W. Johnson, 2. Dylan Galliett, 3. Blayne Herrera, 4. Dylan Thorwaldson, 5. Jay Hatchett, 6. Chris M. McPartin, 7. Chris Miller, 8. Collin D. Hutson, 9. Kai J. Kapahee, 10. Tim E. Trainor.

• 125/250:

+ Beg: 1. Benjamin W. Knoblock, 2. Lucas Russ, 3. Greg Bradshaw, 4. Reile Cole, 5. Justice Doyle, 6. Brandon Maigatter, 7. Brendin Pinkston, 8. Brian Belton, 9. Garret Linnell, 10. Cody Zimmer, 11. Jayce Hawkins, 12. Sam Roby, 13. Philip Muhilly, 14. Kolby Parry, 15. Richie Whitney, 16. Joshua Paley, 17. Luke Rechel, 18. Cameron Radli, 19. Tanner Robinson*, 20. Lucy M. Moran, 21. Kennedy Batcheloer, 22. Brian Thomas*, 23. Kevin Gonzalez*, 24. Jakob Severne, 25. Colin Belton*, 26. Nathan Gonzalez*.

+ Jr: 1. Chase Rychlik, 2. Payton Kenneson, 3. Kai. J. Kapahee, 4. J.W. Thompson, 5. Trevor Hargett, 6. Collin D. Hutson, 7. Nickoli Klemish, 8. Devon L. Vandenberg, 9. Cameron Solinski, 10. Jesse Mulock, 11. Zayne Bissell, 12. Chandler Munoz*, 13. Mason Patterson*.

• 250/450:

+ Beg: 1. Koleton Reguli-Jones, 2. Reile Cole, 3. Jermiah Haskins, 4. Garrett Linnell, 5. Jessie Gregg, 6. Edward Ford-Allisen, 7. Kyle Cutler, 8. Jayce Hawkins, 9. Brett Stuber, 10. Cody Zimmer, 11. Brandon Brown, 12. Marcus Hubred, 13. Brett Buck, 14. Bill Whalen.

 

+ Jr: 1. Dylan Thorwaldson, 2. Chris Miller, 3. Jacob      Kinkel, 4. Blayne      Herrera, 5. Chase Rychilk, 6. Chris M. McPartin, 7. Payton Kenneson, 8.      J.W. Thompson, 9. Devon L. Vanderberg, 10. Tim E. Trainor, 11. Kyle      J.      Zimmer, 12. Colby D. Clements*.

+ Interm: 1. Garrett Hueftle.

+ Pro: 1. Austin J. Johnson, 2. Austin Serpa, 3. Dylan Galliett, 4. Preston Joy, 5. Corey Riddle.

DNF/DNS: Dustin Miller, Michael Jepsen.

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