Five Couldn’t Miss Motos From Loretta Lynn’s Ranch

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It’s been an exciting day two of racing for the 43rd Annual Amateur Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch! Despite us having a million motos in one day, we are going to cover a handful, at least on the written side of things. Our guy Chilidog is filming every Moto and every day, just like it’s 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, ahhh you get the picture.

Here are the rundowns for the races we felt that you couldn’t afford to miss today.

Supermini 1 (12-15)

Today is officially Supermini day as I’ll be covering both classes. Once again, this year’s rendition of the class is full of some heavy hitters. Team Green’s Carson Wood made the first move grabbing the lead early in the race. Wood would chop wood in the first few laps, but Darren Pine, Grant McDonald, Dannyn Reed, Tristan Pruitt, and Aiden Zingg were all up in the mix. Sticking with the trend of Tuesday’s racing, Wood would end of crashing and dropping to fifth and Pine would take control of the race.

This thing wasn’t over, as Grant McDonald wouldn’t let Pine get away. McDonald closed in on the final lap, just trying to serve Pine a Happy Meal, and Reed was right there as well! Pine was able to shut down McDonald’s ice cream machine for the win. Early race leader, Wood charged to fourth, which saved his championship chances. Another cool note on this class is that McDonald has never finished on the podium at the Ranch, his best is a seventh! That was his first medal and now he’s in contention for the Supermini title early here at the Ranch.

Results

Darren Pine
Grant McDonald
Dannyn Reed
Carson Wood
Aiden Zingg

Schoolboy 1 (12-17) B/C

The Schoolboy class always seems to produce great racing, so I’m tuned in. This was an exciting opening race for this class and I can describe it without many words, so let’s do this!

Nico Serdan, Trinnytie Batchelor, and Benjamin Moya were all up front early and set the early pace for the other 39 riders in this class. Batchelor would make the pass on Serdan for the lead pretty early in this one. Then Owen Covell and Brennon Harrison started gaining steam. Covell would pass Batchelor for the lead and then Harrison started pressing Batchelor for second! These three would push one another until the checkers in a great battle.

Results

Owen Covell
Trinnytie Batchelor
Brennon Harrison
Colby Lessar
Jesse Furtado

Open Pro Sport

This class was just an all out frenzy and I don’t even know how to describe all the action. I’ll do my best though, that’s why I get paid the big buckarooski’s, ya knowski?

Leum Oehlhof set off with the early lead and you would think that he’d have some breathing room because Cole Davies was back in 30th and Drew Adams in 13th. Even Krystian Janik fell in the corner before the Ten Commandments on the first lap! Yet, Oehlhof couldn’t afford to breath because this class is stacked with both up and comers AND old vets who haul some serious backside. Adams pulled his famous magic trick of passing ten riders in about one turn and was third before the opening lap was over behind afroementioned Oehlhof and Team Green teammate Enzo Temmerman.

Oehlhof cased the triple that isn’t really supposed to be a triple before the beach turn surrendering the lead to Temmerman. Mr. T would lead for a handful of minutes before the pressure of Adams was too much to handle. Adams made the move around the halfway point and although he was gone, the rest of the pack shuffled around more than industry girlfriends.

Davies could only make it up to tenth and he had a serious battle to get there, especially with Andrew Short who finished in 11th. The veterans aren’t going to let these kids have it easy. I’ll give you the top ten in results for this class because all of them battled at one point or another. This is the deepest class at the Ranch this year and I can’t wait to watch the next two races unfold.

Results

Drew Adams
Enzo Temmerman
Leum Oehlhof
Noah Stevens
Jeremy Fappani
Heath Harrison
Avery Long
Trevin Nelson
Krystian Janik
Cole Davies

Supermini 2 (13-16)

Vincent Wey led this one early on after making some first lap power moves. It would be Wey, Brody Barth, Grant McDonald, Dannyn Reed, and Zane Martin in the top five at the beginning. This race marked the final first moto of the schedule.

Reed would make the move into second and set his sights on Wey and those two would stay close. The Supermini 1 moto one winner Darren Pine would have troubles in this one as he took a cart ride back to the pits midway through the race. We’re not sure, but it did look like a mechanical. From the halfway point on, it was designated to be Aiden Zingg time as he came from outside of the top ten early in the moto, to battle for the win! Zingg went from third to first in one lap and held on for the victory. It was an amazing ride.

McDonald has now finished second in both of the opening Supermini motos, which is an amazing run since he’s never had a podium at the Ranch until this year!

Results

Aiden Zingg
Grant McDonald
Vincent Wey
Brody Barth
Carson Wood

250 Pro Sport – Moto 2

Everyone crashed. That’s the report.

No seriously, this may be the best moto that the Ranch has ever produced. The action was so crazy that something was happening every minute. NSA Yamaha’s Avery Long took the early lead with Drew Adams, and Leum Oehlhof in tow. Both Enzo Temmerman and Cole Davies found themselves outside of the top ten.

Adams would end up crashing early and dropped back to seventh. This put Long, Oehlhof, Parker Ross, Jace Allred, and Hamden Hudson in a mode to capitalize on Adam’s mistake. Then before you know it, Long crashed out of the lead and it was Oehlhof’s turn to lead a few laps.

It was interesting to watch Adams make his way through the pack. Just by watching him you could tell that he was taking his time and trying to find different lines to make the passes on the riders ahead of him. This moto took off at 5:30pm, so the track was as rough as could be and the temperatures were soaring over 100 with humidity. Classic LL.

With the laps dwindling down Long made another charge to the front and to the back wheel of Oehlhof. The two NSA teammates would end up crashing in the same rut, both on their own accord, it was incredible. At that point Adams had made his way to third, so he said thanks boys, I’ll take lead from here. Ross did push Adams until the finish and it clearly showed how much he wanted that moto win. With a 4-1 heading into the final moto on Friday, Adams is the favorite for this title, but Long with 2-3 scores is hoping to ruin his party.

Davies finished the moto in eighth and Temmerman made his way up to fifth.