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Arenacross

Faith Perfect In South Carolina

Colin Faith enjoyed a perfect night on the AMSOIL Arenacross Championship’s first visit to Florence, S.C. Faith scored wins in both 250AX Class main events, leading every lap in both races on his Team Babbit’s Monster Energy Kawasaki. Faith currently sits second in the 250AX Class standings, 8 points behind leader Jacob Hayes.

In AX Lites East, Issac Teasdale took the main event win. The Kawasaki rider is currently 4 points behind Honda-mounted Heath Harrison in the championship standings.

Enduro

KTM Dominates The Sumter National Enduro

KTM has emerged as the manufacturer to chase in this year’s AMA National Enduro Championship Series. The series’ opening round at Wedgefield, S.C.’s Manchester State Forest saw KTMs finish 1-2-3 in both National Enduro Pro classes. Leading the KTM trio in NE Pro1 was Steward Baylor Jr., who took the win by 18 seconds over Josh Toth. Ben Kelly rounded out the all-KTM overall podium.

KTMs also took all three steps on the NE Pro2 Class podium, with Ryan Lafferty taking the class victory by 13 seconds over Nathan Federer. Zack Hayes rounded out the NC Pro2 podium.

GNCC

Kailub Russell, Walker Fowler Trade Wins In GNCC Season Opener

Kailub Russell started the 2018 AMSOIL GNCC where he left off last season. The 2017 GNCC XC1 Pro champ and FMF/KTM Factory Racing rider took the overall win at the series’ opening day of competition at Big Buck Farm in Union, S.C. It was Russell’s 48th career GNCC win. Rounding out the Saturday overall podium were Brycen Neal on a Yamaha and Chris Borich on a KTM.

On Sunday, Walker Fowler took the hole shot and never looked back to claim the overall victory. Brycen Neal and Chris Borich rounded out the overall podium.