![]() ![]() Jon Ortner (N1R) and Pete Murray line up to go over the Saddleback humps. Jon Ortner was running in the top three in the first moto, when his throttle suck in the sand whoops, sending him over the bars-which bent the bars, ripped the throttle off, shredded the seat and tweaked the plastic on his Yamaha YZ250X and didn’t do Jon any good either. South African Alan Jullien went 1-1 in front of Poland’s Arek Kruk (2-2), Canada’s Pete DeGraaf (3-4) and America’s Pete Murray (6-5). Jullien also won the Over-50 Expert class in what was a United Nations-style class. South African Alan Jullien (70) is a big boy to be racing 125 two-strokes, but he is very good at it.Īlan Jullien won the Over-50 125 Pro class with a 2-1 when first moto winner Nick Mairose suffered a setback in the second moto to end up with a 1-4 day-still good enough for second overall as the top five was made up of Arek Kruk (3-3), Kevin Barda (5-2) and Bill Sauro (4-7).Īlan Jullien (70) won two classes at “Saturday and the Glen” and had a barn burner of a battle with Polish rider Arek Kruk (79) in the Over-50 Expert class. Surprisingly, there were several other double class winners, mostly combining a Pasha 125 Open class win with equal success in their regular class. The 2023 Yamaha YZ450Fs are hard to find, so he’s doing his National prep on a 2022 YZ450F. Richard Taylor (141) has been racing a Kawasaki KX450 in 450 Supercross, but plans to switch to a YZ450F for the AMA 450 Nationals starting in May. In the second moto Aeck had the fastest overall lap time, but late in the moto Mosiman reeled off a 2 second faster lap time in traffic to secure a two-moto sweep with Aeck second overall, Richard Taylor third, Ezra Lewis fourth and Ford Heit rounded out the top five. ![]() Colton Aeck stuck with Mosiman in both motos, but Josh’s best lap in moto one corresponded with Colton’s worst lap at a 2:01 to a 2:07. Josh Mosiman came back one race later to race the 450 Pro class on MXA’s completely stock 2023 Yamaha YZ450F and win both classes. Josh was snapped goofing around in practice by Debbi Tamietti.Ĭolton Aeck (526) kept Mosiman honest in the 450 Pro class on his WORCS series KTM 450SXF off-road bike. It’s only mod was a “very, very mellow” map. Josh Mosiman also won the 450 Pro class on MXA’s stock 2023 Yamaha YZ450F. This race was just a warm-up for the April 8th World Two-Stroke Championship and Josh Mosiman used it to test and break in his new Power Parts-kitted 150 engine and re-valved suspension (and 26 other two-stroke riders were doing the same basic thing). Mosiman got holeshots in both Pasha 125 Pro motos and reeled off consistent 2:04 lap times in the first moto and 2:10s in the much rougher and rutted second moto to win by large margins. Pasha Afshar (L7) arranged with “Saturday at the Glen” to hold a 125 warm-up race (actually the displacement limit is 150cc) so that two-stroke riders could get their bikes and bodies ready for the World Two-Stroke Championship on April 8. Since Glen Helen is surrounded by 10,000-foot mountains and located at the end of a canyon, the amount of water rushing out of the canyon mouth is magnified tenfold-leaving a large swath of the Glen Helen National motocross track submerged-even the main road into the track was closed for a week when the river crested the road and left a couple of feet of sand on the pavement. Not only that but this Saturday’s race was imperiled by a massive four inches of rain earlier in the week. The track turned right on top of the finish line jump, dropped in on the right side of the finish line jump and went straight up the center of the hill, and came back down the side known as the “The Falls,” where it rejoined the grandstand straight.ĭue to the unprecedented rainfall in the first 10 weeks of the year, “Saturday at the Glen” hasn’t raced in a month. This is the view from the tunnel directly under the finish line looking up at Mount Saint Helen.
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