SAN BERNARDINO, CA

Winning can become habit-forming, and for Colton Udall (3X, above, and below, center) and his CRF450X compatriots Benny Breck (below, left), Ryan Orr (below, right) & Ryan Dudek and the entire Johnny Campbell Racing crew, it's one habit they don't want to break. The second round of Glen Helen's triple-race HYR Endurance Series was a grueling 12-hour race that saw the lead change at least a half-dozen times.

"[It came down] to which bike was the best," said Udall, "and which team had the best pit crew."

Now that they are the defending winners in all three distance events (the Six, 12 and 24 Hours), the JCR Honda appears to have both.

"And this race was won in the pits, thanks to T.J., Jeff, Mike, Keith and Silver," added Udall. "Their riders? Hey, they are just as fast - if not faster - so this was a pit race."

Udall was referring to their prime opposition, the John Burr Cycles Kawasaki KX450 quartet of Gordon Ward, Brad Goolsby, Brandon Brady & Ryan Reina, who led early and, despite all the lead changes, led more laps, only to falter at the end.

It was back-and-forth affair from the 5 p.m. start of the all-nighter, a first for this ninth annual race, with veteran MX racer Ward leading until a spill put Udall in the lead, and thus began the tug-of-war, which would last throughout the night. Only a 12th-hour surge opened up a six-minute margin of victory at the checkered flag.

The only blemish in Udall's performance was when he was halted in the pits for track cutting.

"I am not a cheater," said Udall of his quick lap about 30 seconds out of the norm. "I had just gotten past Ward, and it was clear of traffic along the ridges, and I just whaled."

He was quick to add that that lap was still slower than laps earlier in the evening. As it turned out, Ward, too, was halted for a similar infraction later in the stretch drive, so the points were balanced out.

Third overall, both in class and overall, was the other 450F Kawasaki Open Expert entry of Tyler Renshaw, Justin Jones & Richie Owens, who were three laps off the pace. One lap further back was the top 250 Expert factory-assisted KTM team of Justin Imhof, Morgan Crawford, Justin Seeds & Jeffrey Do, whose closest rival on the track was the Business class-winning HYR quartet of Jason Riley, Kris Keefer, Drew Collins & Colton Manwill, on a 450F Honda.

The David-vs.-Goliath award goes to the Family-class winners, the Stewart family (72, above): Trevor Stewart (age 12), Tristan Stewart (14), Logan Fogwell (16) and Travis Console (15), who rode their JBC/Enzo/Willie Surratt Racing Honda minicycle to a one-lap victory over the older and bigger runner-up Yamaha-mounted team of Mark Kalpakoff, Max Jack, Gabe Nazroff & Gabe Siapi.

Ironman honors for the second event in a row went to veteran motocrosser Cody Knauss. He led from the start, with fellow 250F Honda pilot Lee Fulmer in pursuit, and they were on the same lap for the duration. A brief break to relax with four laps to go saw a 16-minute advantage nearly evaporate to 90 seconds, but Knauss remounted and won by nine minutes at the checkers, a few minutes before sunrise.

Even a major rupture in the huge water tank that feeds the nearby Pavilion, which produced a flash flood through Bud's Creek and spilled onto the Glen Helen pit-entry road, couldn't stop the racing. It did change the course a bit, though, until the water was finally shut off. The incident caused track manager Lori Bryant to look up into the sky.

"Yup, no wonder," she said. "There's a full moon."

The gremlins must have gotten wet.

Results

250 SPTSMN: 1. Bryan Burch/Nic Garvin/Kevin Barbosa/Mike Pinney (KTM); 2. Michael Watson/Tyler McWilliams/Ben Meza (KTM); 3. Brian Butler/Brian Tadeo/Brad Spindler/Ricky Brabec (Honda); 4. Alex McInturff/John Evans (Suzuki); 5. Blake Gray/Derreck Rumsey/Robert Martinez/John Reiss (KTM).

250 EX: 1. Justin Imhof/Morgan Crawford/Justin Seeds/Jeffrey Do (KTM); 2. Anson Maloney/Chris Paton/Joe Meyer/Derrick Denzin (KTM).

OPEN SPTSMN: 1. Shaun Caudill/Ryan Rowell/Charles Jirsa/Killian Woder (Husaberg); 2. Andrew Whitehead/Corey Brown/Ren Panolino/Patrick Bleckert (Kawasaki); 3. Nick Sandez/Ryan Major/Damien Bermudez (Honda); 4. Tucker Hopkins/Alec Butze/Matt Popp/Chris Gibeault (Yamaha); 5. Kyle Parton/Chris Seims/Brandon Travis/Bret Hardin (Honda).

OPEN EX: 1. Colton Udall/Benny Breck/Ryan Orr/Ryan Dudek (Honda); 2. Gordon Ward/Brad Goolsby/Brandon Brady/Ryan Reina (Kawasaki); 3. Tyler Renshaw/Justin Jones/Richie Owens (Kawasaki).

30+ SPTSMN: 1. Art Holguin/Eduardo Gil/Greg Herrera (Honda).

30+ EX: 1. Jeff Clements/Gary Ginter/Brooks Andie/Craig Smith (BETA).

40+ SPTSMN: 1. Johnny Alexander/Dave Anderson/John Glass/Robert Taylor (Yam/Hon); 2. Steven Sanford/John Floro/Richard Sommer (KTM); 3. James Faulkner/Dave Welty/Rich Anderson/Kent Worley (Honda); 4. Bob Gardner/Mark Cline/Kevin Parsons/Jim Merchant (Yamaha); 5. Robert Ordendain/David McMillian/Tony Booker/Chad Gaumer (KTM).

40+ EX: 1. Jerry Black/Brad Stewart/Craig McCall/Steve Phillips (Honda); 2. Pete Vetrano/Al Youngwerth/Dean Hopkins/Kurt Ferguson (Honda).

50+ SPTSMN: 1. Kris Goolsby/Marc Prince/Bob Wershey (Kawasaki); 2. Ron Lawson/Scot Harden/Dick Wilk/Dennis Boulware (BMW); 3. Ted Smith/Jeff Collins/Bob Bucy/Bill Ledford (KTM).

BUSINESS: 1. Jason Raley/Kris Keefer/Drew Collins/Colton Manwill (Honda); 2. Nick Paulsen/Wes Nemic/Carey Brown/Justin Morrow (Yamaha); 3. Kyle Prince/Matt Winslow/Kyle Mangels/Randy Lesovsky (KTM); 4. Jean Turner/Brandon Seifert/Mark Kariya/Adam Neuwirth (BETA); 5. Ryan Raymond/Sean Gutierrez/Gilbert Lujan/Clark Jones (Suzuki).

FAMILY: 1. Trevor Stewart/Tristan Stewart/Logan Fogwell/Travis Console (Honda); 2. Mark Kalpakoff/Max Jack/Gabe Nazroff/Gabe Siapi (Yamaha); 3. Stephan Butze/Robbie Butze/Brad Peterson (KTM).

IRONMAN: 1. Cody Knauss (Honda); 2. Lee Fulmer (Honda); 3. Kyle Litwin (Honda); 4. Ryan Hanna (Honda).