On The Pegs July 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 7 | Page 127

On The Pegs
“It started pouring in the first test,”
said Smith. “I got wrapped up in some
vines and probably spent a minute or so
there and that kind of put me in a hole
for the day. Then I won test three and
was feeling good and gaining a lot of
time back. But then in the last test I got
some vines across the face.”
XC Gear/Enduro Engineering/Husqvar-
na’s Cory Buttrick continues to regain his
enduro legs and finished sixth overall
with some pretty impressive test times.
Despite being a bit under the weather,
GasGas North America’s Thorn Devlin
got off to a fast start and was sitting in
third overall after two tests. However,
a tumble in the final test dropped the
Pennsylvania rider to seventh overall for
the day.
“After the second test I came in and
saw I was in third overall and I held that
until test five,” said Devlin. “But going
into test six, I came down over the hill
right off the start and there was a bridge
and I wiped out. I bent the shifter com-
pletely around the frame, so I couldn’t
shift. I went to put my foot on the peg
and when I hit a bump it would click it
into false neutral. So, I literally rode that
whole section not being able to shift or
with the left foot on the peg.”
Beta USA’s Mike Witkowski finished off
the day with the fifth-fastest time in the
final test and wound up with an eighth
overall finish, beating out GasGas North
America’s Ron Commo III by 10 seconds.
Commo’s ninth overall was also good
enough for third in the Pro2 division.
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Six-time National Enduro Champion
Russell Bobbitt rounded out the top 10
on his Gnarly Routes KTM.
In the Women’s Elite class, Rockstar
Energy/Husqvarna/Moose Husqvarna’s
Tayla Jones took the overall win despite
winning just one test. Mepmx/Fly/Griz-
zly Peak/Traveler’s Rest Speedway/KTM’s
Mackenzie Tricker won the remaining
five tests and finished second overall, 13
seconds behind Jones, after she lost 50
seconds in test one when a rider fell in
front of her on a bridge.
“I kind of just was at the wrong place
at the wrong time,” said Tricker. “Some-
body crashed on a bridge in front of
me, and they fell six feet down and their
bike was blocking the bridge.”
Rachel Archer of New Zealand finished
third on an Am Pro Yamaha.
OVERALL RESULTS
1. Steward Baylor (KTM)
2. Grant Baylor (KTM)
3. Cody Barnes (Bet)
4. Liam Draper (KTM)
5. Evan Smith (Hsq)
6. Cory Buttrick (Hsq)
7. Thorn Devlin (GG)
8. Mike Witkowski (Bet)
9. Ron Commo III (GG)
10. Russell Bobbitt (KTM)