Bushey Ranch - MX/Trials

from AHRMA MAG December 2020, Vol. No. 2, Issue No. 10

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2020 Redwood Engineering AHRMA National Vintage Motocross & Trials Series Oct. 3rd & 4th Bushey RanchThe Redwood Engineering, Inc., sponsored Robert W. Bushey Memorial 50-degree difference Trials & VMX Bushey Ranch, CA Vintage National weekend took place as scheduled on October 3rd and 4th, one of between night and day. By: Debbie Poole seen, with six experts. It's no surprise that the few events not canceled or postponed Fifty-six trials riders competed on the Jim Wilson won the class with 14 points, in 2020. The extraordinarily and warmest of the two days; all 10 sections followed by Pennsylvanian Jacob Ritorto's prolonged dry year made for dangerous except two were under the shade. Jeff 27-point day. Bob Bellicitti followed fire conditions in the surrounding woods, Bushey and stepson, Chet Mauer, always in third with 29. Bryan Wenzel's seven so the Hagerty sponsored AHRMA aim to best each other in Modern Classic points over Sandi Beliwitch's 12 was Cross Country national was canceled as Intermediate, and this time they tied enough to take the Intermediate class a precaution. The vintage motocross and with 13 points, but Jeff got Chet by only win. trials events ran like a well-oiled machine, two cleans. Third and fourth places were The three Modern Classic Masters, with what would be a good turnout even separated by one point—Jim Herbert and Ralph Foster, Wes Poole and Tanner for a "normal" year. The one advantage Craig Menghini respectively. Kane, had a good competition going of having the cross country canceled was Modern Classic Novices were early on when Foster uncharacteristically having Jeff Bushey and Wayne Hawes, dominated by Kevin Newins, who lost had over a dozen points for his first who normally set up and run the cross only two points, and has an eye to the loop. But he soon put things to rights country events, at our complete disposal intermediate class for 2021. Nic Hawes and came out on top with a 19 point for the week of set-up. They worked and Sean McKenna, also candidates to total, followed by Poole and Kane with along side us every step of the way and move up next year, took second and third 30 and 47 respectively. Walt Foster and then some. with seven points each, Nic having the Grant Menghini went head-to-head in

In the eleven years we've been at the most cleans. Modern classic Expert, with a close finish. Bushey Ranch, I can't remember as warm One of the largest assembling of Menghini won with 51 points to 54 for a weekend as this time, with a nearly Premier Lightweights in many years was Foster.

Premier 500 Expert, Peter Cruttenden (451) and Bryan Wenzel (86u), Premier Open Twin Expert, Mike Atkins (3v) Photo credit: Kelly Shane

Premier Heavyweight saw five entrants, with Rob Poole winning the Expert class over Kelly Shane, who had a bike failure. Intermediate Charlie Higdon won with 26 points over George Vadney who had 48. Mike Miller was the Novice class winner. The Beginner class was almost like Classic 125 Novice, Gary Goodnow (72V) Photo credit: Kelly Shane a party, with seven entrants. Young Conner Walsh, who is poised to move to Modern Classic Novice in 2021, had a clean day with all zeros. Bindi Bushey only lost one point, and sister-in-law, Carrie Bushey, took third with six points. Sunday morning dawned a bit smoky from the fires still burning around the state, but the haze did help keep the heat at bay. 156 Vintage Motocross entries took to the thickly rooted grass track, and no major incidents or delays slowed the pace all day. Chet and Clay Mauer chased Wes Poole in Open

Age Expert, with Wes going 1-1, Chet 2-2 and Clay 3-3. In Sportsman 250

Expert, Chet reversed things and took the win over brother Clay. The Open Age

Intermediates were led all the way by George Amaro. Second place was Dan Rife, followed by new AHRMA member and first-time MX racer, Kailie Duncan, on a bike lent to her by Peter Jorgenson. George and Kailie also made a great showing in Sportsman 500 Intermediate, first and second respectively. The large field of 60+

Experts was won by Bob Bellicitti, who was chased by Kelly Shane and Rob Poole.

Shane also entered 50+ and won wire-to-wire, followed by Micky Sergant and Mark Amaro. Intermediate Fritz Guenther took a 1-1, followed by Rick Ziemer and Dan Cunha. The big bikes started off well but unfortunately lost four out of nine riders to bike failure. Robert Doran won Premier Open Twin Expert, Bryan Wenzel was the Premier 500 Expert winner, and Jacob Ritorto took the Intermediate win, having the nerve to beat his bike sponsor Mike Miller, who took second. Now that's what I call a good sport! The start line crew of Nicky Trevino, Pete Voermans and Mike Houde performed flawlessly, as did our lap-checkers/runner Teresa Houde, Ellen Voermans, Judy Jorgenson and Cathy Sue Newins, some of whom took finish flag duties. Corner workers did a great job, sign-up and scoring personne,l Bill and Toma Rianda, worked about 12 hours getting all the post entries Tanner Kane, Modern Classic Masters Photo credit: Sharon Coad documented, the ambulance sat still all day, Cal Fire came to watch over things all weekend, awards were presented, track stakes and ribbon were pulled, fences, flags and start gate removed, and all was quiet by 4:00 in the afternoon. A big thanks to the extended Bushey family for hosting our party for over a decade, and for becoming a big part of the AHRMA family.