by Chris O'Neal
Mini Olympics Update: Tuesday
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 | 3:30 PM
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PrintThe fastest riders of the weekend have been battling hard and at any given time, five different factory supported riders can win with a good start. Lucas Oil/Troy Lee Designs Honda's Shane McElrath came up big in the A class with a win in the 450 Pro Sport class. Every win is earned with intense pressure from stiff competition in the likes of Paul Coates, Cooper Webb, Dakota Alix, Jace Owen, Luke Clout and Matt Bisceglia.
Track conditions couldn't be any nicer with perfect weather, maintenance, and also how the track shapes up throughout the day. The soil starts off tacky, but ends up hard packed with blue grove in spots like the whoops and jump faces. Now that everything is going smoothly, the motos are blasting off on time and everyone's in sync, the classes are going relatively quick and organized.
Shane McElrath was the big winner in the 450 Open Pro Sport class.
Brandon Butler photo
In the younger divisions and mini bike classes, a lot of different winners have emerged. Joey Crown, Chase Sexton, Justin Rodbell, Gabe Gongas, Gage Linvilee, Tyler McSwain, Jared, Balkovic, Lorenzo Locurcio, Matti Jorgenson, Hannah Hodges, and Tommy Rios have all won a moto. The talent is so deep that a good start makes such a big difference and so many different riders can win at anytime.
The final day of supercross racing will be wrapped up on Wednesday and the champions will be crowned. Look for a complete report of all the race results and titles won on Thursday.
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Cooper webb won the 450a class
Where's Ciancirilo in all of this?
Congratulations to Chase Sexton who was the "big winner" of the day the last two days in the 85Sr Mini Classes. Chase won 3 of 4 titles and 7 of 8 motos (fell in one moto and still won) in clearly dominant fashion. Last moto crashed out. This dude is the "man" of all the Mini riders. Clearly took it too all of them which includes the likes of Forkner, Cantrell, Lopez, Maxey, Crown, Stack and Pantley - youngest in the class too - Way to go Chase!
Retlaw 7 - AC hiding/running from the competition again...
Isn't this the MINI O's - I find it too funny that the big bike get all the accolades and headlines, when the race is built for the Mini's - I think there is a race out there that always does that same thing called the Loretta Lynn Amatuer National --- Just sayin...
AC doesnt hide from anyone......Pretty sure I heard he had surgery.....maybe on his broken finger........pretty sure he can hold his own against these boys!
AC had shoulder surgery and shane is doing well but cooper win 250a, 250 pro sport and 450a all on a 250f he is a bad dude
@allthetruth--Your an idiot..The kid had surgery.. He is training with Aldon Baker and RV1--He isnt one to hide fool..
@allthetard
The only one that's hiding is you from Deez nuts in your mouth...
had too, that was too easy..lol
Tighole - Are you for real? Dude, get a life!
allthetruth
sorry your son has been smoked by ac all these years. enjoy the down time. maybe little joey will get 20th instead of 21st.maybe he'd be winning if he wasn't raised by a loser
Truth hurts
Squid - enough said in your name. Thus the reason for your slowness. Go back to Mom & Pop Octupus, who are a couple of FAT s.o.b's
Tommy Rios! Is that the son of the Tommy Rios we used to have to battle at them mini-o's back in the day?
In response to hardcoremx161 wrote: about 5 hours ago
Isn't this the MINI O's
The mini in Mini O's has nothing to do with mini as in bikes. It's the Mini Olympics as in multi events
Like the real Olympics, but not as many events. The Mini O’s was originally 3 events, the 3rd being a Grand Prix / Hare Scramble event.
Cheers!
who affords to buy mx bikes anymore. let alone race them.kids aint buyen mx bikes,like i did when i was a kid? on the matter of ac,hiding are you kidding me?have you seen this kid ride.he is for sure the real deal.
The Sand Bag Olympics.... where the B riders are running mid pack at nationals the next year.
Addison Emory - Talk about sandbaggers - this gus is running top 8 times with the ridiculous B class riders and he's running C Class- SANDBAGGER AWARD for the MINI O's - Congrats
xoxo161- Sounds like you have been beat one too many times.... there may be a woods race somewhere where you can run the D class and win a participant trophy.