Mid-South Youth Hare Scrambles Series
Cross Country Motorsports Championship
Round 9, Pro Action
Buttrick Brags Another
BY DEBBIE ALLEN
Crofton, KY, Feb 6
T
he past few races of cold weather, snow, and ice made the Mid-South Youth a little scarce, but great weather brought them seemingly back to the ninth round. Pro Action shocked everyone with 101 racers on the Cross Country Motorsports Championship starting line.
It was a great race that included two separate tracks for the Juniors, Mini and Pee Wee classes. The first division raced on four miles of the adult trail. This course defined the word difficult because it had a lot of technical down hills with some off camber curves plus hard rock, creek crossings, and little bit of mud. As stated before, it was half of the adult trail. While most liked it, Cory Buttrick got the bragging rights as he encountered another Mid-South win in the Junior A class.
"It was a lot of fun," said Buttrick. "Jordan [Ashburn] had a few lines out there that were better, but I passed him when he made a couple mistakes.
Off the start, Buttrick followed Ashburn around the first turn and most of the first lap raced. At the end of it, Buttrick got the lead when Ashburn made a mistake coming out of the woods allowing Buttrick to take it away from him.
The next three laps both riders pulled away from the remaining riders, and they swapped the lead several times with Midtown Body Shop / Moose / Maxxis backed Buttrick making his last pass in the woods.
Ashburn said, "On the third lap, I wrecked and got cross rutted. He passed me, and I couldn’t catch him."
Duell Murphy, from Huntington, Indiana, finished Junior A in third class. He said, "The track was pretty tough."
Tanner Byarly was the top rider in Junior B class. He worked hard for his win and set the Pro Action turf on fire with an aggressive move into first place. Off the start he was in third place behind Richard Brewer and Zach Nash who got the holeshot.
On the first off camber, down hill, Brewer hit a slick rock and went head first over his bars. Byarly passed him, and then found troubles of his own. Shortly thereafter, he got lost on the trail and went about a mile or more than what he had to, so he back tracked his way to the trail and charged for Tyler Carter because he thought he was in first place.
By the end of the second lap, Byarly found out that he was the one in first place and not Carter. He eased up on the throttle, finished in first place, and then signed up for points for this season.
Nash said, "I had a great ride today, and I love a difficult trail. I was right with him for the first couple of laps, but I got caught behind some lappers and couldn’t get around them. I was happy to get second place."