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By SAM LOWRY
News Reporter
To young fans of off-road, grand
prix motorcycle racing, Nathan
Woods and Bobby Bonds, Lance
Small and Ty Davis are figures
worth pursuing for an autograph.
They may be less famous than
other athletes named Woods and
Bonds and Lance, but that is half
the point.
What other top athletes, fresh
from a grueling two-hour competi-
tion, will interview their seven-
year-old counterparts before a
closely-packed Crowd of fans and
families, then personally place
medals around the young competi-
tors' necks?
The gesture says it all for the rac-
ers of the 13-event World Off-Road
Championship Series (WORCS).
They are tops in their class, hum-
ble in their manners.
All four stars, and a few dozen
more, were at the Eddieville race-
track south of Goldendale this
weekend to compete in the first
WORCS event ever to come to the
area, sponsored by Eddieville's
Over-The-Bars Gang motorcycle
club.
The pro race was the main event
among a dozen amateur, semi-pro
and professional races held
Saturday and Sunday. Most of the
others had been organized, in tan-
dem with the WORCS race, by
Goldendale's Scott Doubravsky
and his many local volunteers,
"The best thing about the whole
deal is the people," said Dave
Brosius (who is related to a famous
athlete, as far as he knows). "It's a
family-type sport, with all ages.
There's camaraderie."
Brosius, who hails from Arizona,
works with WORCS promoters
Roger, David and Julie Hamill of
Boulder City, Nev. to run the
events. He was the weekend's
announcer.
On Saturday, in a mixed
pro/semi-pro event, the stars got
their first chance to try out the ser-
pentine track that Doubravsky has
laid out on his land. Davis, who is
last year's WORCS series champi-
on (his photo adorning the "worc-
sracing.com" Web site), won hands
down.
"The course is in great shape,"
he said as he rested in his trailer.
"There's a mellow motocross sec-
tion, some blind rises. It's rocky in
places.
"But I'm glad I didn't race this
morning," he added, referring to
the previous night's rain and the
day's muddy start.
Davis and Woods, who is this
year's series leader, race for the
Yamaha team. Davis used to race
with "Team Green," the Kawasaki
team.
Small, who is second in the
series, races with Bonds for Team
Green. Standing unperturbed after
the race, polishing his machine in
the shade, Small took a break to
sign a fan's T-shirt.
"I got to know the gear changes,
made adjustments," he said.
Woods wrapped himself in
sweatshirts against the wind.
-"Your butt and hands get the sor-
est," he said. "You can get carpal
tunnel."
On Sunday at 11 a.m., the 4o pro
Photo by Sam Lowry
WORCS pro-series winners give awards to boys' (ages 7-8) 50cc win-
ners: (LEFT TO RIGHT) runners-up Nathan Woods and Walker Roe; top
finishers Bobby Bonds and Clay Gishey; third-place finishers Kolton
Phillips and Ty Davis.
Photo bYI
A line of ATV racers bounce rough-shod over the whoop-dee-doos along the spectator stretch of the~
ing a Saturday afternoon race at the Eddieville track.
racers waited kickstand to kickstand, revving
their engines as Roger Hamill roared a sign
that read "30 seconds."
As Davis and Woods flashed to the coveted
inside position through the first and second
turns, their pit crew cheered.
Said a disgusted Team Green manager
Jason Smigel of Irvine, Cal., "We're third and
fourth and someplace else." Bonds was lost in
the pack.
But not for long.
The racers wound nearly back to their start-
ing place, twice, before disappearing over the
ridge. When they re-emerged, Bonds was in
the lead.
After two hours of racing, he had not relin-
qushed it. Woods finished second, Davis
third. Small hurt his knee and rode the last
two laps standing up, finishing 21st.
As the trio gathered in the winners' circle
and prepared to interview their young admir-
ers, they swapped gentle boasts. Woods kept
his overall series lead.
Davis smiled - he'd allowed that it might be
"time to bring kids up to race against me."
Boil. were impressed with Bonds' victory.
"My bike is completely stock parts," said the
winner.
Photo bY'
Alec Erland, of Goldendale, revs up to pass
Altadena, Calif., during racing action Saturday.
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tractor slips and can go no far- POKER RUN run, which will feature a
ther. ,, Oneofthemanyotherevents parade, live music by the
An "excellent pull means 44
hooks, watched by 3o0 people this summer involves motorcy- Hedge Hogs, motorcycle
cles and cards and maps. Poker games and food, food, food.
"in the stands. A "hook' is any- runs have happened in Robinson,is also working on a
time the sled is hooked to a Goldendale before and more 'qmrn-out'competition.
One thing he wanted clear
tractor. The pull also .garnered will follow, organizers said. The was that this run is to be a fam-
compliments by the pullers. June m poker run will raise
Carrigan said plenty of the peo- money for New Hope Farms, ily event. '~Ilaere won t be any
pie who ran tractors in the an adult family home for the wet T-shi,,rt contest at this
event last year told him that it developmentally disabled six poker run, said Robinson.
was the best-organized first- miles east of Goldendale, and At the moment there is a
time pull they had seen. that makes it different from 5o/5o raffle going around
The Goldendale Jaycees have town. Robinson has spent a
been in,,strumental in the trac- other runs.
Scott Robinson, the poker few thousand dollars of his
tor pull s success. They are run organizer, knew he wanted own money getting things
working more this year in a to host a run this summer, together. One move Robinson
combined effort hope to double Then he asked himself, ~,at made was to place an ad in
the number of hooks. Another do we do with this? His Thunder Press, a motoreyde
addition this year is a 4X4 pull. answer: Try to rais~$2o,ooo, magazine with a circulation of
Organizers have plastered New Hope will be the main 51,ooo. He placed a large ad in
posters from Pendleton to recipient, he said. Robinson's every issue seen from the
Ellensburg. The Guys and Gals interest comes from care and Rocky Mountains west.
would like to see 6o0 spectators concern for his developmental- Information has gone out to
MOTORSPORTS frompagel ly disabled brother. Ix~eal Boy
Scouts and the Klickitat County
fully loaded, can go to 16,000 in the stand this year. "That'll Sheriffs Posse will also receive
pounds. The farther the tractor be a draw," said Carrigan, who donations from the money
pulls, the greater the weight dif- added that event "is for local raised.
ferential of the sled. An iron boys only." Any money left after To raise $20,000 with this
weight moves along a fulerum, cost goes to the Jaycees. event, Robinson hopes to draw
forcing down a shoe until the 2000 people for the two-day