Summer, and its heat, came to the Spring Creek Nationals in Millville MN. The heat had several riders fading at the end of the moto and one passing out. In the 450 class, Dungey did his now usual 1-1 way out front, with Short and Regal 2nd and 3rd overall respectively for the day. Canard catches fire and pulls out a 2-1 on the day for the 250 class overall.
Kevin Windham is filling in for the injured Davi Millsaps on the Red Bull Honda team. He has not seen the sun, hills, or long motos in a few years.
450s:
The first moto holeshot for the 450s went to Kevin Windham, with Dungey, Short and Townley in tow. The next four were Grant, Reed, Brayton, and Hahn. Early crashes had Ben Evans and others in dead last.
The first few riders were in a pack, with only Hahn and Grant moving up for the next few laps. We now have a close pack with Windham, Dungey, Short, and Grant nearly nose to tail. Behind them, we have some separation between Townley, Reed and Hahn. Reed is not making up any ground at this point.
We couldn’t see what happened in the next lap, but we now have Dungey in front, followed by Grant, K-Dub, and Short. Windham is starting to fade in the heat and the long motos.
Running order is now Dungey, Grant, Short, Townley, K-Dub, Hahn, and Reed. Reed would ride a few more laps before pulling off for the day. Don’t know if it is the heat or he is sick.
The final 450 moto one order is Dungey, Grant, Short, Townley, K-Dub, Hahn, Chisholm, Regal, Sipes, and Cunningham. Evans, sans visor, worked his way from 39th to 20th.
The second 450 moto holeshot goes to Ben Townley, followed closely by Short, Sipes, Dungey, K-Dub, Hahn, and the rest of the field. K-Dub even passes Dungey for a lap, before Dungey gets him back. We also start to see the 41 of Regal in 9th place. Kyle is on a tear and quickly moves up to 7th. The running order is now Townley, Short, Dungey, K-Dub, Sipes, Hahn, Regal, Alessi, Chisholm, Grant, and Metcalfe.
Townley must have fallen, because he fell off the map. Now we have Short, Dungey, K-Dub, Sipes and a hard charging Regal. Rounding out the top 12, we have Hahn, Alessi, Chisholm, Grant, Metcalfe, and Moss.
Dungey must smell blood in the water, because he stuffs Short in the turn before the Holy Schmidt tabletop and takes the lead. Regal continues to move forward, now passing Sipes and K-Dub. Regal must have fallen, and is now behind K-Dub and Hahn. The best battle on the track is now K-Dub, Hahn, and Regal for 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Windham and Hahn are swapping places back and forth. Hahn must have crashed and is now in 11th. Side note: Reardon wheels into the pits.
Dungey is pulling out ahead again with the field of Short, Windham, Regal, Grant, Alessi, Mecalfe, Sipes, Chisholm, Townley, Hahn, Wey, Brayton, Cunningham, Peick, and Evans in tow. Alessi goes down and slides a few positions back and Hahn is done for the day (wreck or heat??). Regal passes Windham and Short for 2nd. Grant really starts to show the symptoms of heat exhaustion on the last lap. He looses FIVE positions before literally passing out just past the finish. The final order is Dungey, Regal, Short, Windham, Townley, Metcalfe, Sipes, Alessi, Chisholm, Grant, Wey, Brayton, Cunningham, Peick, Evans, and Browne.
The order for the overall at the 2010 Spring Creek National was Dungey, Short, Regal, Windham and Townley. The series points order for 2010 is Dungey, Short, Townley, Metcalfe, Grant, Reed, Alessi, and Regal.
250s:
The 250 class got underway with Davalos in front for less than a lap. By the finish of lap 1, we had Canard, Pourcel, Wilson, Weimer, Barcia, Wharton, and Seely. The positions stayed the same for a few laps, but then, Pourcel passed Canard for the lead. Wilson slid back a few positions by mid race. Rattray is on the gas and moving up.
The order now is Pourcel, Canard, Weimer, Barcia, Wharton, Rattray, Wilson, Tickle, Tomac, Izzi, and Seely. Rattray continues to move forward, passing Wharton and Barcia. Barcia goes down and is back up way back in the pack. Canard starts to up the pace and passes Pourcel! Pourcel ups the pace and gets back around Canard before the end of the moto. Tickle, Martin, and Baker move up from a mid pack start into the top 10 Final order for moto one is Pourcel, Canard, Weimer, Rattray, Wharton, Wilson, Tickle, Martin, Baker and Izzi.
250 class moto 2 starts with Izzi and Canard fighting over the holeshot. By the first lap we had Canard, Wilson, Tomac, Izzi, Weimer, Rattray, Barcia, and Pourcel. Izzi goes down and is out of the moto. Rattray starts moving forward again and is now in 4th. Pourcel is not moving forward at all. Lappers are coming into play and the rain starts. Canard is pulling away from Wilson and Rattray moves into 3rd. The field rounds out with Barcia, Weimer, Tomac, Tickle, Wharton, and a slowing Pourcel. With the rain coming down hard now, scoring is getting difficult. Tickle and Wharton pass up Tomac. I would guess goggle issues. Barcia gets Rattray in the muck. Through the rain, Durham and Searle pass Pourcel to get into the top 10. Canard is still way out front. The final order is Canard, Wilson, Barcia, Rattray, Weimer, Tickle, Wharton, Durham, Searle, and Pourcel.
The overall goes to the Okie Canard, with Wilson and Rattray in tow. The series points are still lead by Pourcel, followed by Wilson, Rattray, Canard, Tickle, Barcia, Tomac, and Wharton.