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January 14, 2007
High-flying action at Reliant
Fans at Reliant Stadium were treated to some amazing motorized acrobatics Saturday when the IFMA Freestyle Motocross competition rolled into town. Onhand were last year's champion Beau Bamburg, local hero and X-Games Gold Medal Winner, Chuck Carothers, plus a bevy of big names in FMX - Jake Windham, Kyle Nowak, Jim McNeil, the Rowe Brothers and many more.
Jim McNeil
Billy Walls
Gabriel Villegas
Derek Burlew
Chuck Carothers won "the Whip" competition with a wicked upside down whip. In the doubles, it was Beau Bamburg and Jim McNeil taking the win. In the finals t was Jim McNeil taking the overall with an amazing 94.9 run that included two back flips in a row, one of them with a superman seat-grab!
Final
Jim McNeil 94.9
Dustin Miller 92.5
Chuck Carothers 92.3
Dustin Nowak 92.1
Brian Foster 91.8
Beau Bamburg 91.0
From the floor of Reliant Stadium...
Dave and I covered the event for This Week in Houston. Check out those sweet MEDIA vests we wore. All of the photos (nearly 60) are available on my Flick page.
Posted by CDogg at January 14, 2007 03:58 PM
Comments
Wow Chris those photos are terrific. I didn't know I was talking to a man with such connections! :-P
Posted by: laanba at January 16, 2007 06:21 PM
Thanks - it was a lot of fun. The connections part is simple... just do some reporting for This Week in Houston and you can get one of the uber-cool media badges. :)
Posted by: Chris Doelle at January 16, 2007 10:08 PM