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MPG • DECEMBER • 2017
MIKAH CARPENTER
This division, acts as a stepping stone into the manual transmission classes. It’s here, where you can just begin to see who will blossom at the next level, as riders are starting to gain awareness and focus. Never limited by the lack shifting, the way these riders burst around the canvas in which call Supercross, is truly phenomenal. Doubling and tripling at times, riders like Seth Dennis were hitting the step
on, step off’s with meticulous timing. In heat one, the Floridian felt comfortable in his home state, and it was apparent by his riding style. Taking the green flag, he looked to bolster early on, and establish some wiggle room over Austin Camden, second, and Chance Lawton, third. He was doing so, as another opposition, Mikah Carpenter, had some issues, and was buried around the seventh place position. Dennis, resilient as ever would maintain the lead, going on to take the checkered flag and the win. Camden and Lawton would secure the other podium positions. Heat two, was in all sorts of configuration, as a holeshot by Daden Lowery would unfortunately be followed upon by a mistake, pushing Seth Perdue, Madden Jones, and Kai Morgan into the top three. With Perdue out front, his mechanic waving