Young Gun Gruy Won Three CMRA Races This Weekend In Rainy Cresson, Texas

Young Gun Gruy Won Three CMRA Races This Weekend In Rainy Cresson, Texas

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From a press release issued by CMRA:

Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association Championship Series
Round 10
Motorsport Ranch
Cresson, TX
Oct. 9-10, 2004


The Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association wrapped up the 2004 season with round 10 of its series at Motorsport Ranch near Cresson, Texas. Will Gruy, Tyler McDonald, Bryan West, Eric Falt, John Orchard and Scott Levine all posted wins in multiple expert classes under wet conditions on the 1.7 mile course.

Gruy claimed the most expert wins, taking the Super Motard, Formula CMRA Lightweight and 125 GP expert divisions, while Eric Falt topped the most money classes, taking wins in the Heavyweight Twins Expert class, which features a $500 purse, and the Mr. Corder Racing F-40 Expert class, which pays a $175 purse.

The closest racing of the day had to be in the A Superbike Expert race where Danny Dominguez drew even with early leader, Bryan West, in the final turn of the 8-lap race, then won the drag race to the finish, winning by 0.041 second; and in the Super Motard division, where the lead changed hands several times a lap between Eric Falt, Will Gruy and Loren Swor before Gruy made a desperation pass for the lead just two corners from the finish to top Falt and Swor for the win.

In the novice divisions, Bill Drake, Chris Romeo and Craig Thomson were the big winners with each winning three classes.

In Saturday?s big bike endurance round, it was Vinyl Edge Racing that won the Sum of all Parts CMRA Endurance Presented by Shogun Motorsports race, but it was Northwest Honda Racing that took the series title with a third overall finish.

Village Idiots finished second overall, 28 seconds behind the winners, and wrapped up the Middleweight Superstock class title in the process. Desert-Rats.net finished fifth overall, ensuring them of the Unlimited Superstock class title, while Faltless Racing claimed the Lightweight Superbike championship with a 7th overall placing. Lone Star Track Days finished 20th overall and ended the year with the Medium Superstock championship.

In the CMRA Formula Mini Endurance Series final round at Motorsport Ranch, Team K&N took a 4-lap margin of victory to win the race and claimed the overall and Formula 4 division titles as well. Sum of all Parts came from last place to finish second overall in the race and third overall in the championship, while Mystery Dance was third overall, giving them second overall in the final standings. In the Formula 5 class, Team Bling ended the year first overall after a 7th overall finish on Saturday and STD Racing won the Formula 6 title with a 6th overall. Team Lean finished 13th overall and wrapped up the Formula 7 championship.

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