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Less than 48 hours after Team Babbitt’s/Monster Energy/AMSOIL Kawasaki’s Gavin Faith clinched back-to-back AMSOIL Arenacross titles, Orleans Arena was the epicenter of the amateur racing world. The 18th annual AMSOIL AMA Amateur National Arenacross Championships (ANAC) brought the 2017 season to a formal conclusion with an action-packed day filled with 30 classes of competition for all ages and skill levels. In the end, a total of 28 AMA National Champions were crowned.
Every entrant at ANAC punched their ticket to the finals, and a shot at an AMA National Championship, by competing in a minimum of one Sunday Amateur Day throughout the 13-round AMSOIL Arenacross season. Riders qualified for ANAC by accumulating points in one of four different amateur regions – Central, East, South, and West.
The ANAC weekend got off to an unofficial start on Friday night, when the Ultracross 50cc (4-8) division and AMSOIL Dominator Supermini class raced in front of a capacity crowd during the AMSOIL Arenacross Finals. Mikah Carpenter took his first of a pair of national titles in Ultracross 50cc riding
an Elite Cobra, while Jett Reynolds and his Team Green Kawasaki kicked off a dominant weekend filled with multiple titles by grabbing the AMSOIL Dominator Supermini victory. With the win, Reynolds locked in a spot in the Supermini class at October’s Monster Energy Cup from Las Vegas’ Sam
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