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Kendall Norman makes it back-to-back wins in the National Hare & Hound Championship Series.
Red Bull’s Kendall Norman backed up his round-one triumph by successfully fighting off FMF/KTM Factory Off-Road Racing Team’s Kurt Caselli the entire way to win round two of the AMA Racing/FMF/GPR National Hare & Hound Championship Series. Unlike round one, the Four Aces Motorcycle Club’s 63rd Annual Moose Run at the Spangler Hills Off-Highway Vehicle Area outside of Ridgecrest, California, employed the usual two loops, and lack of rain meant dust would make visibility a challenge.
“I know what it’s like to be in second and the dust is hard to deal with,” Norman noted. “It’s definitely harder to ride your own race when you’re in the dust, but at the same time, too, you really have to pay attention to follow the course.
“He was there [behind me] and honestly, I didn’t think I was going to be able to do it. Halfway through the first loop, my valves started going out and the bike was backfiring and I stalled it in the pits and almost lost the [lead]. Then I stalled it on a downhill, but good thing it was steep enough where I could get it bump-started again.
“Man, I’m just stoked to be here!”
Caselli said, “It was a short start--I was on the right [side of the starting line] and he was on the left, and he just barely edged me out at the end. I think that was kind of it--I just ended up staying behind him the whole race.
“There wasn’t much I could do. I tried to catch him here and there, but unless he was going to make a mistake, I wasn’t going to get by him. It was a little dusty, but he rode really well. He earned that race, and that’s just how it goes.”
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