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  • RACING PREVIEW: OCT. 26 TO 29

    October 25, 2017 Author: Dan McGee
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    MRANN

    RENO, NV (Oct 25) – Racing preview for this weekend has a varied menu even though seasons are winding down. And while tracks are going dark there is some live racing just getting started along with what’s found on TV and streamed on the Internet. In our region two motorcycle events will be in the Winnemucca area although they are about 30 miles apart. The Mason Valley Dirt Squirts will host MRANN’s final round of the year at an event called The Silver State Howl-A-Wheelie. Once again it will be held at Bottle Creek, located about 40 plus miles north

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  • MRANN: SHOWDOWN AT BOTTLE CREEK

    November 14, 2016 Author: Dan McGee
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    MRANN: Overall winner.

    The season ending event for MRANN was held under almost perfect weather and had a good field of competitors.   BOTTLE CREEK, NV (Nov. 13) – MRANN had its final race and showdown in an area between Winnemucca and Imlay at Bottle Creek Road. The race was hosted by the Mason Valley Dirt Squirts and was named the Stars and Bars Hare Scramble. When the dust settled a visiting rider was first through the timing chute. “I got a really good start and I just kind of held it there and was charging hard all day,” Joe Wasson from Mountain

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  • RACING PREVIEW: OCT. 15-18

    October 14, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    Wild West Motorsports Park - Ultra 4 Nationals

    Racing preview for this weekend has a unique and major event this weekend as well as desert motorcycle racing action. The Nitto Tire Ultra 4 Nationals moves into Wild West Motorsports Park for a Saturday race. If you’ve never seen this event it is one of the wildest races on the planet. An Ultra 4 is a cross between an all out desert racer and a rock crawler. And they do race across two fields of rocks, and those rocks, well they’re more like boulders. Saturday is when the main action happened and things really start going around 10 a.m.

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  • MRANN AT TOULON HARE SCRAMBLES

    September 30, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    MRANN Wild Horse Hare Scrambles - first and second Austin Serpa (left) and Dan Capparelli.

      MRANN headed east for Round 2 of its Fall series and did a rare one-day event. TOULON (Sept. 27) – Western States Racing Association had a busy weekend here. On Saturday they ran an Enduro event for AMA District 36 the on Sunday the club hosted round 6 of the MRANN racing series, The Wild Horse Hare Scrambles. “I think I started riding over my head really early in the second loop,” Austin Serpa said after winning the big bike race “I had a lot of close calls and Capparelli got really close to me in the middle of

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  • RACING PREVIEW: SEPT. 25-27

    September 23, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    Wild West Motorsport Park - Silver State Rock Crawling Championship

    Racing preview for this week and a new event on the menu. RENO – This week is another mix of different events, some local and others national. And this time there’s something new. Two events in our area are two-day affairs running on Saturday and Sunday. The new one is the Silver State Rock Crawling Championship held at the Wild West Motorsports Park. What it might lack for speed the competition compensates by offering major obstacles for competitors to negotiate. The action begins at 10 a.m. each morning and is on the west side of the parking lot on top

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  • HERRING MEMORIAL AT THE SANDBOX

    June 22, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    HERRING MEMORIAL HONORS FALLEN RIDER AND ENDS SPRING SEASON FOR MRANN. FERNLEY (June 21) – The Herring Memorial race on Father’s Day weekend honors a young rider that was lost seven years ago. This time, the sixth anniversary race, was staged at the Sandbox, or the Fernley Lion’s Motocross Park using all the available track, so one loop was between two and three miles. And there was a log section the riders had to negotiate on the west side of the course. When the expert winner got back to the pits he took off his gloves, looked at his blistered

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  • 4TH ANNUAL SANDBOX GRAND PRIX

    March 30, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    Fernley (March 29) — Four years ago MRANN and the local OTHG combined forces for the initial Sandbox Grand Prix. It’s a day full of motocross action on an 2.5 mile long course that ends with a team race. There are no points, money only bragging rights and a trophy. And its become one of the most anticipated fun events of the year. And once again the venue was the Sandbox or the Fernley Lion’s Motocross Track. Teams are made up from two to four riders and they pick some crazy names. The starting riders get a scrunchee they wear

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  • TOWNSEND WINS MRANN RACE

    March 2, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    Blue Wing Flag (March 1) – MRANN journeyed about 25 miles west of Toulon beside a not too dry lake for it’s second race of the season. The Wide Open 120 was the combined effort by the Cheaters and Rimbenders Motorcycle Clubs. Sunday’s big bike race, featured an almost race long duel between two young lions as they battled for the win.   “It was really good, really fast but my suspension was kind of blown out there. I have no suspension so every time I’d hit a corner it would just pack in and slip out but my stabilizer

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  • MOTORSPORT PREVIEW – FEB. 26 – MAR. 1

    February 26, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    Once again television is ripe with various races and so is the Internet. And locally the second race of the year happens this weekend. This weekend MRANN journeys toward Lovelock but the race area is actually about 20-miles along a good dirt road to a dry lakebed west of Toulon.   It’s the Wide Open 120 held at Blue Wing Flat, Nevada. As usual the Pee Wee riders begin the weekend on Friday when their race begins at 9:30 a.m. followed at 11 a.m. by the V-Women, Mini bikes, Bombers and Vintage bikes. On Sunday the big bikes take off

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  • SPRING MOTOCROSS RACING IS ON

    February 25, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    Last fall SMRA pulled the plug on its fall motocross season. The Over The Hill Gang then took up the cause, thought they had a three-race series but that turned into a one-off race at Fernley. Over the winter the Gang has been working and is joined by the Old Timer’s Chapter so racing will return. Over the winter Gang president Layne Kolbet was able to secure use of the Fernley Lion’s Motocross Track, otherwise known as the “Sandbox.” And the club also helped the Lions when they were in need.   The Gang will host and stage the first

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  • DEAD HORSE STARTS AREA RACING

    February 16, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    Nightingale ( Feb. 15) – The Trail Blazers motorcycle club hosted the first race in our region for 2015. It traditionally not only opens racing in our region but starts MRANN’s season as well. This year the name is the Dead Horse 95.5 and it was the 17th annual Hare and Hound race. When the dust settle a veteran hot shoe, one that suffered significant injuries less than two years ago, showed that’s he’s healed and still has the speed needed to win races. After taking the checkered flag winner Reese Honea was asked by his brother Ron if he

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  • YOUNG CHAMPION LOOKS AHEAD

    January 12, 2015 Author: Dan McGee
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    (RENO (1-12) — In every form of racing there are the veterans and younger competitors that are rising up the ranks. MRANN is no different and one rising racer is 16-year-old Spanish Springs High School Sophomore Drew Chattin, this year’s 250 Expert championship. He and his older sister grew up with their racing father so competing on the desert is in their blood. “ I was 2-years-old when I got my first motorcycle and 2 and a half when I started racing,” he said. “I think it gave me the thrill to keep on racing. At that time I was

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  • MRANN’S CHAMPIONSHIP DAY

    November 25, 2014 Author: Dan McGee
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    NIGHTINGALE (Nov. 23) – MRANN ended its season here east of Fernley on the south side of I-80. For the desert racers it was their Championship Day as titles were clinched or secured.   This time the Tankslappers Motorcycle Club staged “The Return of the Jackass,” in the rolling hills. While it was windy on Saturday the weather was almost perfect on Sunday. After racing at Winnemucca the previous week the rider count was down as only 58 racers showed up to compete in the big bike event. But it was a day when veterans and young lions ruled although

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  • WEEKEND PREVIEW – NOV.20 – 23

    November 20, 2014 Author: Dan McGee
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    This weekend is championship time for two different series, one local and the other international. Both events wind up racing for this year. • East of Fernley the desert racers of MRANN square off for their final event. The pits are located on the south side of I-80 off the Nightingale exit. Titles will be clinched while other racers are riding to secure their places in the points. The action begins Saturday with a 45-minute race for the Pee Wee riders. Then, at 11 a.m. the Mini Bikes/Women/Vintage and Bombers begin their 90-minute event. Sunday is for the big bikes

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  • MOON ROCKS – RESULTS AND PHOTOS

    November 7, 2014 Author: Dan McGee
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    Here are the official results from the Purge 100 at Moon Rocks. Wonderful weather and great racing that day.   There is at least one change and that is in the Saturday Women’s results, congrats Chrystal Ponsock. And there maybe others as well and I’m also including class breakdowns. And some mispelling of names was also corrected. Best wishes at the next race, it’s a bit out of my range right now but I’ll be covering the last race east of Nightingale. RESULTS MRANN – Round 7 Purge 100 – Moon Rocks • Sunday, Nov. 2 Big Bike Overall –

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