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KILPATRICK
COLE BARBIERI
Cole Barbieri has shown some undeni- able speed throughout 2017 aboard his Chaparral Motorsports / Bar X Motorsports / Suzuki Amateur RMZs. The Californian has accumulated seven AMA Champion- ships as well as two Loretta Lynn’s podium finishes throughout his career thus far and he’s hungry for more to close out the final chapter of the 2017 racing season. He was adopted as the spearhead for the newly revitalized RM ARMY, putting the yellow machine up front at many of the major races this year. Barbieri led multiple laps in the A class at the JS7 Freestone Spring Championship, eventually wrapping up the week with a seventh place finish overall in the 450 A class. He was carrying loads of momentum into the fiftieth annual running of Mammoth Motocross after scoring a first and a second in the Road to Mammoth qualifiers, but a crash at the beginning
of the week derailed his bear hunting plans. Regardless, Barbieri was extremely impressive at the Washougal Amateur Regional where he scored two overall finishes, punching his tickets to the Ranch in style. The last time that the Californian competed at Loretta’s, he came away with a pair of third place finishes -- will he be able to find his way back to the podium aboard the new equipment in 2017?
RAMYLLER ALVES
Ramyller Alves is coming into the thirty- sixth annual running of the Loretta Lynn’s Amateur National Championship with
a point to prove before graduating to
the professional ranks at Unadilla. The Floridian is hunting the first overall podium finish of his career at the Ranch, narrowly missing out in both 2013 and 2015 with a pair of fourth place finishes. Alves had a couple of solid performances last year in the A class, but the continual grind at Matt Walker’s Moto X Compound has seemed to really elevate his riding this season.
His EBR Performance / Altus Motorsports
/ Yamaha carried him to a pair of overall podium finishes between Daytona RCSX and the JS7 Freestone Spring Champion- ship against some of the nation’s top A class competitors. Alves carried that mo- mentum into JuniorMotoX and swept both the 250 A and 250 Pro Sport class, but he sustained an injury shortly after that left the remainder of his season in jeopardy. He worked tirelessly at rehab and recovery in order to show up somewhat healthy for the MillCreek Regional where he went on to take both overalls, extending his streak of overall victories to four in a row. Alves is approaching the week of racing at Loretta Lynn’s with an immense amount of confi- dence on an extremely familiar motorcycle, making him one of the major podium contenders in the A class.
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