Montgomery Wins With CMRA At Oak Hill

Montgomery Wins With CMRA At Oak Hill

© 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. From a press release issued By CMRA:.

Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association Championship Series
Round nine
Oak Hill Raceway
Henderson, TX
Sept. 25-26, 2004

By Shan Moore

Kawasaki-mounted Craig Montgomery was the big money winner at round nine of the Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association?s Championship Series held at Oak Hill Raceway, near Henderson, Texas, taking home over $4500 in manufacturer’s contingency and CMRA purse money. Montgomery won the C Superstock and C Superbike Expert races en route to the cash and took control of the series points standings in each class as a result.

Despite a forecast for thunderstorms over the weekend, which materialized as an all-day drizzle on Saturday, 419 sprint entries and 37 mini endurance teams filled the grids at Oak Hill for the penultimate round of the series.

On Saturday, round five of the K&N Motorcycle Formula Mini Endurance Series hosted by the Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association, which paid a $500 purse, got underway in wet conditions and after four hours of racing, Mystery Dance (Chuck Ergle, Derek Delpero and Steve Guynes) took the overall win, finishing 115 laps. Four laps back was Team Jesus (Zac Chapman and Mike Humphries), with Indenile Racing (Dustin Dominguez and Les Banta) finishing third overall and first Formula 6 bike, eight laps off the lead. In fourth was defending series champs Team K&N (Tyler McDonald and Will Gruy), with STD Racing (Emmett Dibble, Pat Brown, Chris Reed) in fifth (Second Formula 6). First overall in the Formula 7 class went to Team Lean (Danny Mosley, Bobby Palmer, Phillip Fisher).

Jeff Grant (Kaw ZX-6R) topped Saturday’s $1500 purse Pace American Trailers Red River Challenge Expert race. Grant needed only to finish ahead of Suzuki GSX-R750-mounted Danny Dominguez to clinch the RRC championship, but went one better by winning the 50 minute race by a 28 second margin. Tyler McDonald (Yam WR450) was second with Craig Montgomery (Suz SV650) in third and Dominguez fourth.

CMRA up-and-comer Chris Romeo (Suz SV650) won the Novice division in a good race over Seth Cooke (Suz GSX-R600) and Chris Bean (Suz GSX-R600).

Derek Wagnon (Hon RS60) and Jayme Jernigan (Apr RS50) provided some tight racing in the AF1-sponsored Formula 5 race, which featured a $250 purse. Jernigan came out on top with Wagnon in second and Kyle Rivers, riding a Derbi GPR in third. Richard Eads (YSR XR100) won the Formula 7 division ahead of David Wilson (Yam YSR50) and Walker Keene (Hon XR100).

In the Combined Formula 4/Formula 6 race, Will Gruy (Yam TZ85) edged Tyler McDonald (Yam TZ85) by 0.244 seconds for the win, with Anthony Smith (Hon RS80)in third. George Crain (Kaw KLX125L) was top Formula 6 rider with HP Patman (Hon NS50R) in second and Nick Gruy (Yam TTR125) in third.

In Sunday’s sprint-race action, Andy Galindo, Will Gruy and Eric Falt joined previously mentioned Craig Montgomery as money-class winners with Galindo beating out a hard-charging Bryan West to claim first-place money in the Formula 1 division; Eric Falt topped Ronnie Lunsford and Michael Nellis to win the lion?s share of the $250 purse offered in the Mr. Corder Formula 40 Heavyweight Expert race; and Will Gruy took top money in the Heavyweight Twins Expert and 125 GP races which both paid a $500 purse.

Other Expert winners included CMRA sophomore Expert John Orchard, who took his first expert win in the B Superbike Expert class, Tyler McDonald who handed Jason Pirtle his first loss of the year in the D Superbike Expert race, Bryan West in the A Superbike Expert race and Pirtle, who took wins in the Formula 2 and Lightweight Twins Expert classes. Also, Chris Vinson won the Classic Unlimited class and David Wilson won the Vintage Superbike class, while Kyle Martin topped the Super Motard divison.

In the Novice ranks, Jon Francis won four events while Kyle Rivers and Craig Thomson were two-class winners.

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