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HEATH HARRISON
ARENACROSS
IMAGE / KILPATRICK WORDS / KILPATRICK DESIGN / WILSON
>> Heath Harrison is coming off of a solid top ten finish and a Lites main event win in Cincinnati. He clocked the eleventh fastest time heading into the night show. Harrison continued his good run of form in the Lites class with a second place as well as a fifth place in his AX class heat. He only seems to get more and more comfortable with each and every time out on the arenacross track. His KTM has been hooking up out of the gate and he rocketed off to a second place start in the Lites main event. The Alabama native put some pressure on the leader, Jacob Williamson, and forced him into a mistake only a couple of laps into the race. From that point onward, Harrison held the lead in a relatively unchallenged manner as he beat out Justin Cooper in second position by over six seconds. In the first AX main, Harrison looked incredibly comfortable as he got a de- cent start just outside the top five and quietly worked his way forward with consistent riding; he ended the race with an ex- tremely solid fourth place finish. Harrison’s confidence seemed to grow as the night went on and he put himself in a prime position to do some damage in the second AX main event. He put his KTM in fourth place out of the gate, just behind Blose, but it wasn’t long until he moved up onto the podium thanks to a mistake by Gavin Faith. Harrison burned consistent laps for the remainder of the main event and was able to hold off a charging Matt Goerke for his first podium in the AX division.
48 GRITMOTO • JANUARY 15, 2017