On The Pegs July 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 7 | Page 80

On The Pegs
out of my mind that I was winning. I was pretty nervous
but I felt like I held it together pretty well. I improved on
my last lap, so I was consistently getting better, which
is good. For me it was like these ticky-tack dabs every-
where which add up pretty quick. Pat doesn’t make
those mistakes, but I think the difference was that there
were one or two sections that I just had the extra power
in this altitude with my bike.”
Six fives on the opening lap of Saturday’s event put
Davis in a deep hole, but the Florida rider was able to
clean things up on his second and third laps to post an
overall score of 80 points for third.
“The sections were very intimidating – some of the
most intimidating sections I’ve seen in quite a few
years,” said Davis. “Sections six and twelve gave us the
biggest problems; they seemed pretty impossible. The
rest of them were still intimidating but rideable.”
Davis had a couple of nasty crashes but managed to
finish in one piece.
“When you go into every section kind of nervous it’s
hard to really get motivation to keep going,” added
Davis. “I’m not the happiest with my riding, but we did
the best we could.”
A pair of Pro-class rookies, FactoryONE Sherco’s Josh
Roper and FactoryONE Scorpa’s Alex Myers, rounded
out the top five. Myers finished fourth with 91 points,
edging out Roper by just two points.
Myers was an impressive second overall at round two
of the series in Nebraska, and his fourth overall in Colo-
rado just confirms his arrival in the class. Meanwhile,
Roper, the king of fifth place, has been uber-consistent
in his debut season in the Pro class. Roper’s fifth over-
all finish on Saturday was the fifth time in a row he has
finished fifth.
The sections were equally challenging (and intimidat-
ing) on Sunday and Smage led the way with a 17-point
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SAM FAST