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NICHOLAS ROMANO
Nicholas Romano has been winning races on a national level since he was in the 51cc division and has continued to do so as he progressed through
the ranks. It wasn’t long until he was recruited by the Team Green Kawasaki program and the two have paired up in recent years to find a lot of success. In addition to his involvement with Team Green, Romano is also a member of the coveted Team Dunlop Elite program. He has only finished outside the top five
at the Loretta Lynn’s Amateur National Champion- ship two different times in his career and he has one Amateur National Championship to his name. The New Yorker ended the 2017 season with a trio of championships at Mini Os and started the new season with the same tone, picking up victories left and right. He found the top step of the podium on multiple occasions throughout the Florida Winter Ams and completely swept his classes at the Monster Energy Amateur Supercross in Tampa Bay, Florida at the end of February. Romano continued to find the podium
at the Daytona RCSX and the JS7 Freestone Spring Championship, collecting two second place overalls and a third place overall between the two events. Ro- mano is a clearcut favorite to challenge for the podium at any race that he attends and it’s likely that he’ll be back on the top step before the end of the season.
MITCHELL FALK
Mitchell Falk has been on a tear since winning
a pair of titles at the 2017 iteration of the Thor Winter Olympics, the Californian continued to rack up titles throughout the spring. He showed up in his home state for the 2018 FMF Cal Classic one week after sweeping the Glen Helen AQ with his confidence at an all-time high. The competition was stiff at the Cal Classic, but Falk remained unphased as he escaped from the weekend with a first in 450 Pro, a second in Open Pro, and a fourth overall in 250 A. Falk only finished off the podium in two out of nine motos at Pala Raceway over the course of the Cal Classic (both in the 250 A division) but a moto win allowed him to salvage fourth overall. The Orange Brigade backed rider was utterly dominant aboard his 450 on the other hand, winning all three motos in dominant fashion in the 450 Pro Division on his way to the title.
In the Open Pro Class, Falk recorded a third, second, and first place finish in order to earn second overall. The Californian has established himself as one of the men to beat in the A class throughout the beginning of the racing season and that reputation will surely continue throughout the remainder of the season.
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