These last pic's, Nancy took of Anthony's races for the weekend and there are some pretty good shots.
We were stewing over how many years it had been since he last raced Vintage Days, and it's been like seven years we're thinking. He struggled with the Cross Country race back then and vowed he wasn't going to line up for that again. But, once he decided to race this year, he thought he would at least have some fun trying the hare scramble again. So........ When I finally made it back to the pits with my broken bike and the horror story of the hill climb struggle, I told him he might want to change his mind and skip it. Anthony pondered it for a bit, and said "to hell with it....I came here to race"!
So he lines up, gets a mid pack start and gives it a go. Nancy and I went to the woods and was watching and waiting for him. He was delayed quite a long while trying to get that first lap in. He finally emerged back to the woods opening, got one complete lap in at the scoring tent and headed for the truck. As with my race earlier, they were backed and stacked on that hill climb, and after finally getting up the hill, he was done.
The next day, we found out that he was the only rider in his class, and he ended up with the #1 Plaque. Talk about crazy luck.
Saturday motocross was really fun as well, as he signed up for the Free Modern class. That was the 1st time that he was part of a race that had three full gate divisions, and a LCQ. So he at least got two race's in that day, and if he would of made it into the top eight of the LCQ, he would of been in three moto's.
Then on Sunday he raced "
R2- Vet 30+", and "
R2- Open class". He held his own and did ok. He thoroughly enjoyed being at Vintage Motorcycle Days again.
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His group, Friday Cross Country race.
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Anthony is #357...2002 CR250...... POWERED by METAL MULISHA, (haha... I tease him on his poor taste and bike prep.)
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The Kawasaki #04, (Greg Lykens) right next to the FMF banner, got hung up in the gate, and came off the line last place. He then passed his way all the way to third I believe. Was very impressive.
He also took 1st place in the
R1-Masters 50+ Class. Greg was pitted next to us and really impressed me for being 62 years old.
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Greg Lykens.... Has Speed!
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Anthony got a poor launch off the gate, (behind #3 Yamaha).
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But he raced to the front and made the turn. (barely).
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He held on to it.
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Back of the pack on this start.
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John Kreps (#261), on the right, waiting for the second gate drop.
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R2 - Vet 30+..... 3rd place. Not bad for his first motocross race in many, many years.
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Greg Lykens taking the 1st over Greg Wheeler. No small accomplishment.
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