For all the Teams and fans,
Round 1 of the 2007 AMA National Sidecar MX Championship was held on Sunday, April 1st at Diamond Don's Riverport National MX in Jefferson, TX.
In all we had 8 Teams racing, including 2 Heavyweight Teams.
The defending Champions, Morgan Pierce & Janette Player had a fantastic race on their EML-Kawasaki 540. The Team grabbed the holeshot in both moto's and dominated the race, taking both moto wins.
Dr. Clint Welsh & Dr. Erich Marchand took their recently renovated RT-2 Wasp-Yamaha to a 2nd place finish in the Heavyweight class. Welsh having worked on the rig all winter, bringing it up to a completely raceable machine. Not only was the bike in good shape, but it was obvious that the Team had improved over the off-season as well.
Eric Benson was back in action, but this time it was with Jeff Menifeld in the chair. Menifeld is a local to the Jefferson area and works for Don Rainey during the event. Last year Menifeld expressed some interest in riding as a passenger at the event and his wish came true for 2007. Both Benson & Menifeld looked right at home on their RH VMC-Kawasaki, taking the 6th position overall on the day.
As a family affair, you couldn't beat the Hennessy's. All the Hennessy brothers were in attendance at Jefferson and all of them raced a Sidecar. That means Dave, Stephen, James & Greg Hennessy were racing on all sorts of machines. Regular Passengers Jim Vietti & Brian Kohl raced with Dave & Stephen, while James & Greg Hennessy teamed up on Dave's older Wasp-Honda CR500.
New Teams found Wes Poole & Keaton Hendrickson on a loaner LH EMl-Honda CR500. The new pairing did fantastic, taking a 3rd overall on the day as a rookie team. Allen Wenzel & Paul Stimson are anything but rookies, but they are a new team and they teamed up to take their RH EML-MTH to second overall. All the teams did great at Jefferson.
Here are the results:
CHAMPIONSHIP CLASS:
1. Morgan Pierce/Janette Player (EML-Kaw) (1,1) 60 points
2. Allen Wenzel/Paul Stimson (EML-MTH) (3,2) 46 points
3. Wes Poole/Keaton Hendrickson (EML-Hon) (4,3) 39 points
4. Dave Hennessy/Jim Vietti (VMC-Zabel) (2,6) 40 points
5. Stephen Hennessy/Brian Kohl (Wasp-Yam) (6,4) 33 points
6. Eric Benson/Jeff Menifeld (VMC-Kaw) (5,5) 32 points
7. Clint Welsh/Erich Marchand (Wasp-Yam) (7,7) 28 points
8. James Hennessy/Greg Hennessy (Wasp-Hon) (8,8) 26 points
HEAVYWEIGHT CLASS:
1. Stephen Hennessy/Brian Kohl (Wasp-Yam) (1,1) 60 points
2. Clint Welsh/Erich Marchand (Wasp-Yam) (2,2) 50 points
Round #2 of the Championship will be held at Two-Rivers MX in Milliken, CO on Saturday, May 5th 2007.
For Official results, please click the link to the AMA Website: http://www.amadirectlink.com/amrace/2007/smx/index.asp
Thanks to all the Teams for a great opening round of the 2007 Series!!!!
Al,
Allen L. Wenzel
AMA-National Sidecar MX Series-Coordinator
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