One of the nicest and best looking families in the sport, Jerry, Terry and Brian Larson of Holdrege, Nebraska.  Brian's one of the most promising young riders on our circuit, smoking the B class in his first year on the big bikes, he's got the A class in his sights.  His smile is a little goofy because he just biffed it good on the triple jump and got his bell rung.  Everybody was crashing today.  I even crashed hard and I never crash.

Ron and Rod are two guys that can give me fits in the Over 40 class.  Even if I pull the hole-shot and open up a 10 second lead, I can be sure that one of these two is going to cause me some problems before the race is over.  If Rod pulls the hole-shot, just wave by-by.

One of the cool but humbling aspects of racing the Vet classes is that you regularly get smoked by some of the young hot shots like Craig Fritz.  These kids have no respect for their elders!  Craig and his dad Steve make a few last minute adjustments before he goes out to teach some lessons in humility.

Joe and I have known each other for years and we never realized that the other was an MXer until Joe's MX cancer came out of remission this year and he had no choice but to buy a new bike and take weekly 2-stroke oil treatments.  That's Joes dad and head mechanic Wayne.  I won all my races today except for the one in which Joe beat me.  In fact, that's exactly what happened last week.  With friends like that.......