Snocross at Canterbury, Hibbert Continues
Tucker Hibbert continued his snocross success in both Pro Stock and Pro Open this past weekend at the third AMSOIL National Snocross race in Canterbury. Arctic Cat rider Brett Turcotte pulled the holeshot lead in the Pro-Open Final but Hibbert quickly found his way to first before completing one lap, leaving Turcotte to follow in second. In usual fashion, Polaris machines found their way rounding out the rest of the leading pack ridin by Levi LaVallee, DJ Eckstrom and Ross Martin.
Early in the race, Eckstrom found his way off the track leaving him in bad positioning. Malinoski (Doo) lost 5th place to TJ Gulla (Pol) making the top order Hibbert, Turcotte, LaVallee, Martin and Gulla. This is how it remained until lap 13 when LaVallee and Martin battled for 3rd, exchanging the spot several times in the laps to come.
Malinoski continued to run a strong 6th place until he ran right off the track, causing a red flag and forcing a single file re-start with just 7 laps to go in the 26 lap final. This was everyone’s chance to knock Hibbert out and claim a victory. Unfortunately (for them), Hibbert had a clean shot back into first and solidified a victory. Gulla made one last go of it, with final top spots going to Hibbert, Turcotte, Gulla, LaVallee and Martin. Once again giving the podium spots to Arctic Cat and Polaris.
Pro Super Stock was packed with action as early leaders Ryan Simmons, TJ Gulla, Ross Martin and Andrew Johnstad lost their footing and fell deep into the pack. This leveled the playing field for eager contenders to stake claim to the top spots. LaVallee (Pol), Brett Bender (Pol), Garth Kaufman (Cat), Eckstrom (Pol), Turcotte (Cat) and Shaun Crapo (Pol) held the top seven spots after the first lap with Hibbert just on their heels.
This order continued for nearly half the race while Hibbert consistently made his way to first; eventually lapping every racer up to the top four. The final saw Hibbert in first, followed by Kaufman who had an impressive struggle making his way to second, LaVallee, Bender and Eckstrom rounded out the top five.
Ski-Doo finally got their first major win of the season, falling into the hands of Tim Trembly in the Semi-Pro Super Stock final. Dan Ebert (Cat), Derek Ellis (Pol), Paul Bauerly (Doo), and Matt Pichner (Cat) held the remaining top five spots. A last lap on-track incident in Semi-Pro Open delayed the official Semi-Pro Open results. The top five posted results are now as follows: Dan Ebert, Tim Tremblay, Derek Ellis, Paul Bauerly, Chris Kafka.
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