The NBL Midwest Nationals saw a Saturday of contentious racing, and gorgeous weather. With 100 motos, the count was 20+ larger than most in the “moto pool” had counted on during Friday’s practice. And dry was the buzzword of the day, as the rain which The Weather Channel had predicted stayed away. Three gates of Elite Open set the stage for the hot & heavy Main Event, where the fenceline swelled to three or four deep. It looked like Morphine’s Tyler Faoro (above, Left) would make his gate-to-last-straight lead stick all the way to the stripe, but Jeff Upshaw’s (Above, Right) magic manualing brought it home, with nary a knobby to spare, for new sponsor Alienation, and their hometown crowd.

Sunday Update: The radar blob that promised to devour Warsaw stayed away long enough to get the race in, the packing done in the dry, and then some. A 90-moto race day had the deed done by 11:15AM, even with a few bad bails in the mains— and, again, the comp was cookin’. As the pros go, it was a Saturday redux, with Upshaw, Faoro and Becker doin the second verse same as the first.

Results are due in any time now, which will allow some extra syllables on the subject, but props to top-of-mind weekend perfects by Joel Moore (26-34x), Frank “The Tank” Hoskins (19-25x), Tommy Zula (17-18x), Jake Sherbno (16x), Vaughn Herrick (9x) and Lexa Jones (11G and 11-Under Girls Cruiser).

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