Charlie Mullins leads the way

Photo by Jason Hooper and stolen from Cycle News

Suzuki’s Charlie Mullins pulled off a win in the Georgia clay yesterday. Mullins, who was just four seconds behind after the third lap, would take the lead from KTM’s Nate Kanney on the fourth lap and never look back. Nate kept the pressure on but was never able to retake the lead and had fallen to a scant sixteen seconds behind Mullins at the checkered. David Knight took third. He got a bad start and finished the first lap in fourth place, one spot behind enduro ace Russell Bobbitt, who would eventually run into trouble and not finish the race. Knight pushed hard, but relented that even with a good start he would not have been able to run with the lead pair. Fourth, fifth and sixth went to Suzuki teammates Paul Whibley, Jimmy Jarrett and Josh Strang. The Suzuki bosses must be smiling having four of their riders in the top six places at the end of the day.

Second place Nate Kanney fresh back from the World Enduro Championship series, GO Nate GO!!!

In XC2 action it was Thad Duvall once again taking the victory. Duvall had a big crash early on, but managed to lead every lap; eventually winning by over a whopping five minutes! Andy Matusek, riding a Kawasaki, ended up second followed closely by Dustin Gibson on another Yamaha.

XC1 Class finishes:

1. Charlie Mullins
2. Nate Kanney
3. David Knight
4. Paul Whibley
5. Jimmy Jarrett
6. Josh Strang
7. Barry Hawk
8. Jesse Robinson
9. Glenn Kearney
10. Russell Pearson

XC2 Class Finishes:

1. Thad Duvall
2. Andy Matusek
3. Dustin Gibson
4. Johnny Barber
5. Josh Weisenfels
6. Kalib Russell
7. Takeshi Koikeda
8. Wally Palmer
9. Ryan Echols
10. William Gilleland

XC1 Points:

1. David Knight 51

2. Jimmy Jarrett 41

3. Charlie Mullins 41

4. Nate Manney 41

5. Paul Whibley 34

XC2 Points:

1. Thad Duvall 60

2. Andy Matusek 43

3. Dustin Gibson 42

4. Josh Weisenfels 41

5. Johnny Barber 31

Psycho Monkey apologized for not adding any humor to this report, but he had a good excuse, Monday morning and time change yesterday, come to think of it, I’m in poor humor too. Thanks Psycho and good job Mullins