Sept. 5-6, 2020
2020 Redwood Engineering AHRMA National Vintage & Post Vintage Motocross Series By: Tony Paul / Photos: Sharon Bean Monster Mountain was going to be our kick-off race in the East in 2020. However, weather hit, flooded the parking lot, we had to cancel last-minute and move to later in the year in September. The September weather was typical Alabama, warm but not terribly hot. For VMX on Saturday, we had 36 racers show up for a total of 62 entries. On Sunday, for PVMX/Next Gen, we had 38 racers and 61 total entries. Saturday’s racing kicked off with a great natural terrainstyle track on a hillside with nice loamy/sand corners as is common in South Alabama. Race One consisted of some heavy AHRMA hitters with Chet Malito and David Aldana roosting each other in the Sportsman 500 Expert class. Chet Malito checked out and easily claimed the victory in both motos. Bob Bean, in Open Age Expert, and Oscar Gaetan, 50+ Expert, raced pretty much side-by-side for the entire moto. Curt Jaimet, in Classic 250 Expert, trailed the likes of those four great racers yet he still finished in front of ‘the Legend,’ the one and only Beno Rodi, racing in Premier 500. The deep loamy sand corners didn’t stand a chance against Beno on his firebreathing Premier 500 motocrosser. Beno hardly had to get above Idle to blow out those sand berms. Race Two was a gate half-full of Intermediate riders. Mike Bickley had a hard-fought race with the sand, yet he
still came out victorious with a 1-1 score in the Classic 125 Intermediate class. In Vintage Open Age Intermediate, there was a stacked field of intermediate riders with Keith Canfield, Tommy ‘Tommy Gun’ Gates, Sam ‘Huggy’ Huggins and George Crafton. Keith was the winner with 3-1 finishes. Tommy Gun was Mr. Consistency with 2-2 motos. Huggy won the first moto yet fell back to third in the second moto for third overall. Crafton went 4-4 both motos for a fourth overall finish. 70+ Intermediate featured another tight race with Dan Beher, John Johnston, Jim Bradford, and Richard Light. The race winner was Dan Beher with a 2-1 finish. JJ John Johnston Johnston (3-2) second, Jim Bradford (1-4) third, Richard Light (4-3) fourth.
Vintage Open Age Intermediate and 70+ Intermediate start. L-R: John Fedor (56J), Tommy Gates (71Y), Daniel Beher (19B), John Johnston (26L), Sam Huggins (51H), Richard Light (79E), George Crafton (105G), Jim Bradford (49Z)
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