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ACP on Saturday, December 11: Great turnout for the last race of the Fall Series – total of 36 AZOT racers! We had 5 Master, 9 Expert (way to go, guys … we called and you showed up), 14 Intermediate and 8 Novice. Despite several frustrating challenges – racing a last-minute borrowed bike due to a serious engine problem, scouting for a missing lever, a couple of broken spokes, pushing an ankle injury - they all made it to their gates. Then no major injuries, just a few ego tweaks with sliding out, getting hung up in the gate, dirt...

Happy December!  After a brief break we are ready to finish off the AZOT fall series with round 9 on Saturday December 11 at Arizona Cycle park.  Gates open at 7:00, practice starts at 9:00. Register for the race here! There is still quite a bit of drama in the Fall Series:  In the Master Class, Tee Stefaniac leads, but Ricky Arnold and Ryan Pedigo can each add one more race to their best 7, while Tee can only improve on a previous score because he already has 7 counting.  Brian Sharp does pretty well on the Vet-X track and may play a spoiler role. ...

Canyon - Sunday, November 21: Total of 23 racers: 3 Master, 4 Expert, 10 Intermediate and 6 Novice. Race 3 featured some heated battles! Ryan Pedigo (#328) held off Rick Arnold (#97) and Tee Stefaniak (#49), but then a last lap bobble from Pedigo allowed Rick to take over - another exciting Master show to the very end. Second moto Ryan jumped out to the front position and maintained it, despite Tee’s hot pursuit. Unfortunately, Rick had to leave for an emergency so he wasn’t there to compete. Expert class welcomed Jeff Neil (#40) back to the valley, escaping the...

Motoland - Sunday, Nov 14: On to day 2 of the double header weekend, we shared the newly extended Vet track with the AVDRA group – getting Race 7 - so we had a chance to watch the vintage bikes on the track. Of our 22 racers, we had 4 Master, still only 2 Experts, 10 Intermediate and 6 Novice. A welcome back to few more racers we haven’t seen for a while – Matt Martin, Ron March, Rich Schauwecker and Paul Blankenship. Calling all Experts – we miss you. Robert Naughton, a well-known pro from the 80’s, joined us...

Then came the double-header racing weekend! ACP - Saturday, Nov 13: Race 6 had all classes running together – 20 racers total: 3 Master, 2 Experts, 12 Intermediate and 3 Novice. Kudos to the Intermediates – strong participation numbers! We had some energetic guys double-classing: Scott Bergstrom, Kurk Quinn, Eric Maas and, of course, Brian Sharp. Consistent show of experience over youth! No surprise, Brian Sharp – aka Ironman – ran 4 races … yep, that’s 8 motos!! And finished first in 3 out of four! In our Master competition, Ryan Pedigo took the win in moto 1. He continued...