Photos

Qualifiers 9 & 10
Charlotte BMX
Punta Gorda, Florida
May 6-7, 2006

Photos Day 1

Photos by Rolf Bostrom
all photos copyright 2006 Bostrom Design

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Charlotte BMX is looking great after the recent rebuild..	A Charlotte tradition. Ceasar Bright in one of his colorful hats.	MCS's Weslee Matrinez prepares his bike for the race.	MCS's Jonathan 'Mosquito' Suarez and J&R/Profile's Chris Fernandez jump the pro section. Few other riders sucessfully did.
Clayborn's William 'Petey' Peters started out slow, but finished with a win in the 22-29 Expert main.	Audiobahn's Kory Fain(610) in front of Nicholas Lucas as they head under the bridge. Fain won the motos, but Lucas captured the main win in 15 Experts.	Trevor Windsor tries to stay in front of a hard charging Cody Reed.	Showing some spirit, Kelly Doan heads for her Corner Marshall spot above turn #2.
Coming back from a wrist injury, J&R/Profile's Mike Kapes(3) shows some speed ahead of JD Byrider's MJ Peters(761).	A tropical setting awaited the racers at the finish line.	Newlyweds, Laura and John Pringle.	Santiago Marin(5) gets over the bridge ahead of Force's Cody Simson. Marin would go on to take the 10 Expert main win.
SBR's Dawson Stage(8) and Timothy Greene(919) lead this 7 Novice into the third corner.	Amanda Carr made it look easy winning every moto and the main in the 14-15 Girls Class.	Side by side racing. 11 Rookies Bray Bellamy(073) and Brandon Bruggeman(878) put on show as they head for the final corner.	Working the bike for every ounce of speed Logan Locklear(723) and IC's Andrew Bodge(883) fight for the lead. Bodge won all of the 12-13 Cruiser motos and placed fifth in the main
Volunteers having fun. Ashley Trimble keeps count of the riders on the track.	Kovachi's Tony Lehman had a perfect day in the 35 & Over Expert class.	Hap's Ian Nichols with a big lead in his 17 Novice moto.	Looking their best for the camera. Mike Kapes and Mike 'Skippy' Johnson between motos.
Putting on a few moves, Kirsten Garcia shows us how to spell Y-M-C-A.	Florida's newest pro Matt Longhini did well enough to make his first main....	Fernandez(268) gets out of shape over the pro section and bunches up the pack. Longhini is already headed for trouble as he leaves the jump behind Tim Sonner(4). Jason Bennett(3) survives the carnage and takes the win with Fernandez second.	Formula's Amanda Geving(2) and Madison Pitts alway put on a close race. Geving took the Elite Women Money Series points lead with wins on Saturday and Sunday.
Big Bad Benny Wright did what he set out to do this weekend. Win all of his motos and go to the Championship Race capped out.	Felt's Rachelle Youtzy won every moto every main all weekend in the 8-9 Girls class.	Troy Lee Design's Dominic 'Guy-with-the-pink-bike' Therrien flew in from Arizona for the race.	Getting close in the corners. Tyler Tate(331x) gets ahead of Jacob Cross(926) and goes on to win the 10 Rookie main.
J&R/Profile's Harry Britt gets inside of Jose Diaz in the 16 & Over Open main. The two fought for two more corners before taking each other off the track....	..leaving Hyper's Justin Joy in front of Force's Thomas Cane at the finish line.	Aftershock's Nick Mayner where he was all day - in front of everyone else in the 7 Novice class.	Riley Hawes works the bike to get some speed in front of the crowd.
Gulfcoast's Lauren Lanzilotta helped her team by winning all of her 5 & Under rookie motos and taking third in the main.	Sometimes a little slip makes all the difference. Amanda Geving slips a pedal on the pack straight.	Rite Bike's Madison Pitts takes advantage and pulls away to a big win in the 14-17 Girls Cruiser main.	IC's Andrew Bodge leads MCS's Bryan Kipp and ONE's Shane Hall into the second corner. Hall went on to win the 12-13 Cruiser main, Bodge finished 5th and Kipp 7th.