Super-Motard in Nash-Vegas

Hey, don't get me wrong, the Super-Motard races at the fair-grounds this past Saturday were definitely worth checking out, except for all the aforementioned freestyle WWF style crap. Like I said, the AMA is a danger unto themselves. You don't have to look any further than the fiasco that was the final Superbike race of the season at Mid-Ohio a few weeks ago for evidence of that......

Anyways. The Graves Yamaha's pretty much dominated the evening and you could tell they had motor over the Honda's in both the 250cc Lites and the headlining 450 Super-Moto class.

The 250cc 14-lap race was definitely the barn-burner of the evening with Brandon Currie running a close second but dropping his Yamaha on lap four to fall back from the leaders about ten seconds and into 5th place. After that it was all the Brandon Currie show as he steadied himself and smoothed it all out to run down all the guys in front of him, finally passing the Honda of Cassidy Anderson with about fifty feet to go, in the last hairpin turn before the final two jumps. It was nasty, but it was a clean pass and on the cool-down lap the 2 protaganists shook hands and slammed each other on the back. Who says sportsmanship is dead. Damn, what a race! Our whole crew was hollering like school kids.

In the Super-Motard division Honda mounted Jeff Ward maintained his lead on the Championship with Doug Henry only able to gain a point during the evening's 2 moto format.

Mark Burkhart, Henry's Yamaha teammate won moto 1, while Ward was 2nd and Henry was 4th. In moto 2 Burkhart looked set to repeat as he headed out to a commanding lead only to have his Yamaha fail him. Then it was Henry's turn to lead but Wardy was on a charge and looked like he was going to make a last gasp run at Henry, only to toss his Honda in the last turn hairpin. Ward's teammate Chris Fillmore snuck through to grab 2nd place while Ward pushed his stalled machine up and over the final jump to claim the 3rd podium position.

The pic is of Chris Fillmore's Honda on the victory rostrom. It's as trick as trick can be, the ultimate urban assault vehicle.