| May 21, 2018
2018 Moonshine XC OMA Missouri Results – The Moonshine XC, round two the OMA Pro-Am Nationals, was held at the Kirkpatrick family land in rural Memphis, Missouri, May 19-20.
2018 Moonshine XC OMA Missouri Results
Cody Barnes (Barnes Yamaha/Moose/Kenda) took the win with a gap of 24 seconds over Logan Lowrey (Husqvarna/Moose/Kenda), with Cole Zuidema (KTM/Moose/Kenda) rounding out the Pro-Am podium.
Barnes said, “The bike ran great the whole day. I got off to a great start. I got bumped on the inside by someone and about went down. I dropped back to sixth or seventh right off the start. I had to fight my way through the dust for the first two laps. Once I got out and saw that Logan [Lowrey] wasn’t too far ahead of me, I knew I needed to push and catch him, and we did. Then me and him just went at it the whole rest of the race.”
“I passed him in one of the field sections,” Barnes added, “and he just kept me honest the whole way. He wouldn’t let me pull away. It was good to have someone there to push me. A couple sections where lappers would hold me up, he would close the gap back up and I had to push. It was good. I had a great time and it was a great track, so, all in all, it was a good day.”
“It was good, for sure,” said Lowrey. “This place is always pretty wide open, and that is different from the national enduros. I know I was at a little bit of a disadvantage. Cody, he’s a GNCC guy, and he is really good at this stuff.” Lowrey said “I was able to pull a good start. Cody had the holeshot, then he got hit from behind.” Knowing Barnes would have some traffic and dust to deal with, as Lowrey began to push hard. “I knew he was back a little bit, so I immediately got to the lead and tried to get out,” Lowrey said. “I tried to keep pushing in the fields as hard as I could, and Cody ran me down and caught me. We battled a little bit, and then he passed me out in a field. We both ended up gassing, then we started hitting the lappers. He got out of sight just a little bit, but when we caught the lappers, I was able to catch back up to him. We were battling pretty hard through the lappers, and then he was able to pull out a little bit more of a gap once we got clear of lappers. I kept him pretty honest there. We kind of held it there about 20 seconds for most of the rest of the race.”
JOHN GASSO
2018 Moonshine XC OMA Missouri Results
Moonshine XC
RESULTS
- Cody Barnes (Yam)
- Logan Lowrey (Hus)
- Cole Zuidema (KTM)
- Zach Sulzberger (Yam)
- Zac DuBois (Yam)
- Bryan Johnson (Kaw)
- TJ Nees (KTM)
- Barry Sulzberger (KTM)
- Tommy Fortune Jr. (Yam)
- Ben Ward (KTM)
2018 Moonshine XC OMA Missouri Results
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