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Photos by Dan Alamangos
New Zealand’ s i9000 Daryl Hurley, who race the AMA series for four many years, with his best result being an eighth in the 125 class at Budds Creek in 2003, easily earned the Over-40 Pro class on Glen Helen. Hurley was certainly one of 16 New Zealanders at the 2016 Dubya World Vet Championship.
Last year’ s Over-40 World Champ, Kurt Nicoll (8), didn’ t go down without a fight. Kurt’ s 2-2 won’ t make him happy heading into tomorrow’ t Over-50 Pro race.
Spanish National Champion and former Grand Tarifs racer, Javier Garcia Vico, invested most of the day racing with Kurt Nicoll, who was his former team manager on the GP circuit. Vico ended uo fourth with a 3-4 day.
RESULTS: OVER-40 WORLD MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Glen Helen Raceway
1 ) Daryl Hurley (Hus)… … … … … … 1-1
2 . Kurt Nicoll (KTM)… … … … … ….. 2-2
3. Kenjiro Tsuji (Hon)… … … … ….. 4-3
4. Javier Garcia Vico (Hon)… … … 3-4
5. Ryan Hunt (Hon)… … … … … … … 6-5
6. Gordon Ward (Yam)… … … … …. 5-6
7. Brian Wheeler (Kaw)… … … ….. 8-7
8. Julian Cerny (Kaw)… … … … ….. 7-8
9. Jeff Willoh (Suz)… … … … … … … 11-9
10. Brandon Milstead (Yam)… …. 10-10
11. Ron Lechien (Kaw)… … … … … 12-11
12. Shawn Wynne (YAM)… … ….. 13-12
13. Paul Reefman (Yam)… … … … 9-17
14. James Lavender (Kaw)… ….. 15-13
15. John Kirkcaide (Hus)… … … … 18-14
16. Ed Foedish (Yam)… … … … ….. 17-15
17. Aaron Hunt (Yam)… … … … ….. 19-16
18. Jurgen Kuppers (Kaw)… … … 16-21
19. Chad Hartman (Kaw)… … ….. 21-18
20. Geoff Walker (Suz)… … … … … 20-19
Don’ t look at this photo if you are squeamish. Tim Razor-sharp (714) holeshot the first moto of the Over-40 Pro class, but dropped the front end at the bottom of Shoei Hill. He suffered a damaged leg—evident to those who look closely at the photo.
Ron Lechien constantly races the World Vet Championship. His 12-11 day wasn’ t indicative of how well he rode, exactly how much ring rust the Maxima businessman has.
Hills never look because steep in photos as they really are, but if you failed to make it up Mount Saint Helen, you had to return to the bottom and take another run at it.
Canadian Julian Cerny went 7-8 to be the first Canadian. The top ten had riders from New Zealand, England, The japanese, Spain, South Africa, Canada and the UNITED STATES.
Arizona’ s Ed Foedisg was your only rider to try to race the Over-40 Pro class on a two hundred and fifty. His 17-15 score doesn’ big t reveal how hard he rode simply to keep in touch with the 450s on Glen Helen’ s big hills plus long start.
Former GP driver Josh Coppins isn’ t aged enough to race the Over-40 World Championship, but he came to Saturday’ s World Vet time to get in a quick warm-up race in the Over-30 class to get ready intended for Sunday’ s Over-30 World Championship.
