FERNLEY, NV (April 7) – The local chapter of the Old Timers hosted a round of their national series at the Sandbox this weekend. Its formally known as the Fernley/Wadsworth Lion’s Motocross track and Mother Nature smiled on the event with great weather.
Saturday is the long day as riders raced in three motos while on Sunday there are only two motos. The riders ranged from the youngsters in their 40’s to an 84-year old and all of them gave it their best.
At the top of the age group there were three classes with 70 year olds as well as a 75 and 80 plus class. All of these riders showed the kids how one can keep riding and racing longer than many believe.
Before the action started on Saturday the 70 to 80 plus riders posed for a group picture.
Photo courtesy – Jeff McCollum.
Local OT chapter president Jeff McCollum took a picture of all these seniors on Saturday before the on track fun began.
When the final gate dropped Dan Fleming, 70+ Expert was on point but behind him Kerry Barnes, another 70+ expert giving chase. Further back Dick Lyons, whose plate showed he’s 84 years young, was keeping a steady pace.
Eventually Barnes, who is a local, took over the lead while Fleming slipped back to second. They finished in that order for Sunday and the weekend.
The 70+ Expert final moto came down to winner Kerry Barnes holding off a determined Dan Fleming (45).
“Yes a local guy winning,” Barnes said after his second first place finish on Sunday. ” It was fun, always fun if you’ve got somebody behind you or in front of you. The course is fast and fun for me. I’m a desert racer so, the sand is perfect.”
Then he thanked his wife and his new puppy.
Behind them Terry Messer won the 70+ Intermediate class while Russ Greenfield scored the 70+ Novice overall victory.
Topping the age brackets was Dick Lyons, who would have also won the Methuselah award if there was one.
The ageless Dick Lyons rolls into a corner on his way to winning the 80+ overall victory.
After finishing his fifth moto for the weekend he said, “I’m 84 this year and I’ll be 85 next year. I love this track because it doesn’t have a lot of long sweeping sand but it’s and rough, the rougher the better.”
Then he thanked his “lovely bride of 60 years,” Patty, who he said lets him ride.
At the other end of the age scale are the “kids,” in the 40 plus class. The fastest classes, who also had the longest moto, was the 50+ Master, 40+ Master and 40+ Expert race.
Right from the get go Tim Tynan, from the Sierra Chapter, left everyone is his dust. Even though he riders in the 50 plus class no one was even getting close to him as he swept the day.
Tim Tynan ran away from everybody to claim the 50+ Master class and score a sweep of the weekend.
“A clean sweep,” he said. “I had almost a perfect weekend, four or five hole shots and led almost every lap. Track’s really good, they did phenomenal, it’s really fun flowly, a little short but it gets good and rough and that’s’ what I need.
Then he thanked Steve at Shock Therapy, Cycle West, Dumonde Tech.
At the end of that last race A.J. Heckart was the 40 Plus Master winner while it was a local one-two in the Expert Class headed by winner Jason Shakespeare with Chris J. Leone in the runner-up spot. The lone woman winner was Lisa Heckman from Oregon, who rides in the 40+ Novice class.
The races are timed and most run 15 minutes plus one lap while the fastest ride for 20 minutes plus one lap.
Both the 60 plus Expert and Intermediate classes were large as they accounted for 27 riders that competed on both days. James Neff from Oregon was the Expert winner while Sierra chapter rider Bret Eckert won the Intermediate class while Carl Smith from Arizona was the Novice winner.
The biggest class overall was the 50 plus group. Between the Expert, Intermediate and Novice divisions there were 44 riders accounted for while the Master class only had five that competed both days.
In the final 50+ Expert moto Kevin Granger (751) would win but the weekend’s overall victory when to Aric Cool shown here chasing him.
One of the closet races of the day was the final 50 plus Expert moto. Aric Cool from Oregon started on point while Washington rider Kevin Granger gave chase.
In the end Granger won the moto but winning the war was Cool as his results from Saturday as well as winning the first Sunday moto earned him the weekend’s overall victory.
Nevada’s Mike McMurry won the Intermediate group as Alan Kesti was the Novice winner and Sierra member Tim Tynan was the Master’s winner.
Looking at the winners the Sierra chapter has the most over all victories with five while a trio had three each, Nevada, So Cal and Oregon. Washington riders took home two overall victories while Arizona scored one.
Riders mostly came from the west although at some were from Canada. Two riders were injured on Saturday but their conditions weren’t known when this article was posted.
REPORTER’S NOTE: There is a photo gallery after the results.
OTHER RACING NEWS:
- Several local racers competed in two different events this weekend, one in Southern Nevada while the other was in Baja California.
At the end of the SCORE San Felipe 250 the team of Dennis Belingheri, Stephen Tichenor, Jason Tauby, from Hawthorne and New Mexico rider Paul Luce were first in the 40 Plus Pro moto class and eighth over all.
To the north in the Best in the Desert event race several riders from this region competed in Class B.
For Reece Honea it was a long day as the rider of record Carl Maassberg was hurt so Honea rode the entire race ending up 1st in the Over 30 Pro class and third overall. Not far behind him in fifth overall was his nephew Brody Honea, who riders in the Open Pro Class.
Other Northern Nevada riders were Wyatt Brittner in sixth place, Colton Scudder was 15th while Anthony Monachelli finished 19 overall.
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RESULTS*
Old Timers National – April 6 & 7
Fernley Motocross track
40+:
+ Novice: 1. Lisa Heckman.
+Intermediate: 1. Jeromie Sorhouet, 2. Josh Knight, 3. Tony Clements, 4. Chris Veale, 5. Rich Collicutt.
+ Master: 1. A.J. Heckart, 2. Jeff Simas, 3. Matt Manha.
+ Expert: 1. Jason Shakespeare, 2. Chris J. Leone, 3. Brent Long, 4. Aaron J. Turnage, 5. Tyson Krah.
50+:
+ Novice: 1. Alan Kesti, 2. James Milano, 3. Al Rogers, 4. Mike Gould, 5. Jon Rash, 6. Thad Burt, 7. Tim Kevular, 8. Scott Burrell, 9. Bill Buffington, 10. Steve Pratt, 11. Shawn Mudgett, 12. Kevin Griffin, 13. Jim Stroup, 14. lMichael Villa, 15. Jeff McCollum.
+ Intermediate: 1. Mike McMurry, 2. Jay Duke, 3. Mark Dugan, 4. Pat Karvia, 5. Robert Johnson, 6. Darryl Haney, 7. Carmen Ogino, 8. Allen Rudd, 9. Charles Earp, 10. Chris Clark, 11. Larry Mulock, 12. Bill MacDonald, 13. Anderson, 14. Butch Garza, 15. Keith Mansfield.
+ Master: 1. Tim Tynan, 2. Greg Fry, 3. Craig Christian, 4. Chuck Heckman, 5. Robert Austin.
+ Expert: 1. Aric Cool, 2. Kevin Granger, 3. Layne Kolbet, 4. Jay Grigsby, 5. Dennis Chila, 6. Tay Gragg, 7. Eric Mudgett, 8. Andy Broth, 9. Richard Cervantes, 10. Tiger Wingert 11. Randy Kerenyl, 12. Ron Thornton, 13. Gilbert Chick, 14. Scott Chick.
60+:
+ Novice: 1. Carl Smith, 2. Michael Ward, 3. Wayne Halozan, 4. Ron McGinnis.
+ Intermediate: 1. Bret Eckert, 2. Jerry Tucker, 3. David Huerta, 4. Kevin Roach, 5. Kenneth Stewart, 6. Dennis Herberg, 7. Tom Patton, 8. Bob Hooker, 9. Mrhcel Gorda, 10. Derekk Currie, 11. James Harris, 12. Alden Alden, 13. Gary Gallagher, 14. Ronnie Mora, 15. Bob Hurst.
+ Master: 1. Eric McKenna, 2. Lance Marshall, 3. Rick Herbst, 4. Kyle Montgomery, 5. Mark Kaerstner, 6. Mike Harper.
+ Expert: 1. James Neff, 2. Mike Voegele, 3. Al Whipple, 4. Mark Hall, 5. Carl Powell, 6. Dean Taylor, 7. Michael Butler, 8. Bill Dougherty, 9. Scott Raymes, 10. Mark Lane, 11.Randy North, 12. Rick Hopkins.
70+:
+ Novice: 1. Russ Greenfield, 2. Joe Kerenyi.
+ Intermediate: 1. Terry Messer, 2. Roger Knight, 3. Gary Kritcher, 4. Joe Anderson, 5. John Craft.
+ Expert: 1. Kerry Barnes, 2. Dan Fleming, 3. Wayne Obleness, 4. Jeff Bell, 5. Duane Quick.
75+ Class: 1. Gary Colbert, 2. John Fridlund, 3. Edgar Perriton.
80+ Class: 1. Dick Lyons, 2. Don Nelson.
85cc National Support: 1. Connor Gaarenstroom, 2. Keiton Rogne, 3. Kade McKnight.
Big Bike Open A/B: 1. Tristen Mathisen, 2. Nolan A. Rudd, 3. Ean A. McElroy.
Big Bike Open C: 1. Reile Coli, 2. Taren J. Turnage, 3. Jesse Mulock, 4. Danny Rudd.
30+ C Support: 1. Brad Neff, 2. Brandon McCoy.
* – Overall standings at the end of Sunday’s racing.
PHOTO GALLERY:
Hi dan I was wondering why nothing was mentioned about the 40+ intermediate class it’s pretty rare when a guy wins all 5 Motos that was raced on the weekend
SORRY IF I MISSED YOU DOING THAT. I WAS ONLY USING THE SUNDAY OVERALL SHEETS.
THERE WAS ANOTHER GUY THAT ALSO DID THAT. STILL, SORRY I MISSED THAT.