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Have any of you guys beaten, or witnessed someone beat a nationally recognized amateur or pro at a local race?
This is inspired by the nine year old ten page Alessi supermini post that I wasted 45 minutes going through. People brought up Mike McDade beating Alessi at a local race once.
Zach Osbourne got beat by a local kid named Matt Williams in an 80 class at a sand track called Montrose MX in the earl 2000s. Matt could ride that track with his eyes closed, and he was a little bit older/bigger/stronger than Zach.
I saw Cooper Webb race a Ponca qualifier at Wide Open MX in Raeford NC in 2010. He was racing a tricked out CRF150R in the school boy class and a local kid named Jamal Porter was on him pretty hard the first class moto, then the first moto of the second class he beat Cooper.
This is inspired by the nine year old ten page Alessi supermini post that I wasted 45 minutes going through. People brought up Mike McDade beating Alessi at a local race once.
Zach Osbourne got beat by a local kid named Matt Williams in an 80 class at a sand track called Montrose MX in the earl 2000s. Matt could ride that track with his eyes closed, and he was a little bit older/bigger/stronger than Zach.
I saw Cooper Webb race a Ponca qualifier at Wide Open MX in Raeford NC in 2010. He was racing a tricked out CRF150R in the school boy class and a local kid named Jamal Porter was on him pretty hard the first class moto, then the first moto of the second class he beat Cooper.
(OK, OK, he was just off an 85, we were still racing 125 Intermediate, it was a no-consequence race at our local track, and he was messing around in the 2nd moto, trying to roost his friends on the side of the track, but it counts!) Steven Eugenio was in that race too, and I eked out a position ahead of him and managed to win the overall. Both fast guys who went on to become pros.
A friend of mine named Frankie Brundage won the World Mini in the 250 Pro class in about 1987. I'll have to see who he beat, but it was likely a who's-who of late '80s/early '90s professionals.
EDIT: NW#599 might know... do you have a results list for the '87 World Mini?
The Shop
Even though Steve was retired by then it was way cool lining up with one of my heroes on my home soil.
Also AJ Sjostrom use to do things at Starwest that no one else could do....his pops ran the place so it was really the only place he rode. With that being said though, he would smoke just about any pro that came to practice out there through the week.
Pit Row
"Kiedrowski, Matasievich, Dubach, Manley."
That reminds me of another thing: he used to run his first name on the jersey, "Frankie"
Then his pants had a butt patch that read, "Says Relax."
Who gets that one?
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