Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.
By Shan Moore
Ty Howard, of Weatherford, Texas, and North Dakota’s Robert Jensen locked horns at round eight of the CMRA Championship series held at Motorsport Ranch near Cresson, Texas and in the process, split a major portion of the manufacturer’s contingency and CMRA purse money between themselves. In all, each rider topped three events, with Howard claiming wins in the B Superstock, C Superstock and Formula 1 Expert events, while Jensen topped the A Superbike, A Superstock and C Superbike Expert races. When all was said and done, Jensen went home $4700 richer while Howard pocketed $5850.
Jensen also set a new track record in the clockwise direction with a 1:15.066 in the A Superstock Expert race on his Yamaha YZF-R1. The old mark was a 1:18.67 set by Mike Sanchez on 9/12/03.
In other money races, Ronnie Lunsford edged a late charging Eric Falt by 0.052 of a second for first place in the Heavyweight Twins race. Later, Falt turned the tables by beating Lunsford by half a second for top money in the Mr. Corder Racing Formula 40 Heavyweight Expert race.
Daniel Browning and Will Gruy battled over top money in the 125 GP race until Gruy went down, leaving Browning to cruise home unchallenged for the lion?s share of the $500 purse. Craig Montgomery claimed the D Superstock division on his Suzuki SV650.
Anthony Smith claimed the win in the AF1 racing Formula 5 race which featured a $250 purse.
Pleasant weather greeted the 585 sprint entries on Sunday after thunderstorms on Saturday left track conditions rather sketchy for the endurance event. Thirty-two teams lined up for the 2Wheelz.com CMRA Endurance Presented by Shogun Motorsports, which featured a $500 purse. After six hours of competition, Northwest Honda Racing took the win by a 1 lap margin over Village Idiots. Desert-Rats.net finished third with Vinyl Edge Racing and 2Wheelz.com rounding out the top five.
In Saturday’s Red River Challenge Series races, Jeff Grant took top money in the $1500 Expert race with Mark Delano second and Danny Dominguez third. Cory Burleson topped Kelly Davis and Derrick Smith to win the Novice race.
In Saturday’s Mini Sprint races, Will Gruy won the Formula 4 race, Chris Crecelius topped the Formula 6 event, Anthony won the Formula 5 race and Walker Keene was first in the Formula 7 event.
The CMRA returns to action for round nine of its championship series at Oak Hill Raceway near Henderson, Texas on Sept 25-26.