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Team Yoshimura Suzuki's
Doug Gust Closes in on Top Spot after Mill Creek
 Pell
City, AL -- July 2, 2006 -- The Mill Creek
Motocross Park was the stage for the
10th round of the GNC National
Championship. The temperature was 106
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making the event the most grueling yet
for the riders as well as the
spectators. Team Yoshimura Suzuki,
however, was as hot as the blistering
Alabama sun pulling two first-place
finishes and taking second and third
position overall.
Coming out of Steel City, both Yoshimura
Suzuki riders were ready for the ongoing
dogfight for points. As the GNC series winds
down inevitably the top four or five contenders
close in on each other. As the final flag
dropped, both Doug Gust and Jeremiah Jones had
reduced the distance needed to walk away with
the championship.
The first moto found both riders in good
starting position. Jones passed a few riders
and worked his way forward positioning him in
third behind Travis Spader. Jeremiah finally
passed Spader and early leader Harold Goodman on
the sixth lap and took off for the win. Doug
Gust was able to get in just behind Goodman and
hometown Alabama boy, Keith Little for fourth.
The second moto found Doug second off the
blocks. He passed Little and just checked out
in typical Gust mode! Jeremiah took an early
corner a little too hot and found himself off
the track after going over a berm. Once back on
the track he got bumped by another rider. The
collision bent J.J's nerf onto his leg and put
him back to last place. Although in pain and
worried that the nerf might break, Jones decided
not to pull off but to continue on.
It was another one of those come from behind
races for Jones moving off of dead last and
picking riders off one by one passing the last
two riders in the last lap to put him 5th across
the line.
Keith Little ended up bagging the overall win
with Gust second on the day and Jeremiah 3rd.
Both Joe Byrd and John Natalie had rough days as
far as points were concerned. Gust meanwhile
relentlessly continued his march forward into
second place in points, now only 13 points
behind Byrd. It looks like the championship is
going to boil down to the last race of the year.
Team Yoshimura Suzuki will be at the WPSA ATV
event on July 8th and 9th in Taylorville, IL and
at the GNC Nationals July 16 at Sunset Ridge in
Walnut, IL.
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