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ride the bike and learn the bike. The bike
definitely started feeling better towards
the end. I felt like I could definitely go
faster. I just rode my race and did what I
needed to do.”
Steward says his plan is to race all of the
major brands before making a decision
on a team for 2021.
Grant dropped two steps down from
last week’s race, finishing on the final
step of the podium at the Little Raccoon
Enduro, however, he still remains atop
the 2020 series standings by 12 points
over Toth.
“The first test went pretty good, and
then the second test was going pretty
good and then halfway through I went
down and kind of tweaked my knee a
little bit,” said Grant. “I just lost a bunch
of time in that second test. Then third
test, I made it about a mile into the test
and lost my shifter. So that test didn’t go
well. At that point I was almost a minute
down from everybody, so I just tried to
salvage what I could.”
Grant finished the race 20 seconds behind
his brother.
Ben Kelley was fourth. The FMF/KTM
rider won the opening round of the season,
but has followed that up with threestraight
fourth-place finishes.
Fifth overall was XC Gear/Enduro Engineering/Husqvarna’s
Ryder Lafferty.
Lafferty, nephew of eight-time champ