Grant Langston won his third consecutive meeting of the season
when he crossed the finish line at Glen Helen for the twelfth and
last round of the 2007 AMA Motocross Championship and clinched
his first title in the premier class. The 25 year old South African’s
results ensured that Yamaha toasted yet another excellent crown
with YZ machinery after also winning the MX2 and MX3 World
Championship this year.
Team Yamaha’s Langston took results of 1st and 3rd aboard a
2008 YZ450F to seal his third victory in a row in San Bernardino.
He had led by just eight points from Andrew Short entering a
thrilling climax to the AMA outdoor campaign but with his rival
only able to take fifth position overall he ended his first season in
the class and maiden year with the YZ450F sixteen points the
better over Mike Alessi and eighteen points over Andrew Short.
“I felt like I had what it took to win but I don’t think in motocross
that it’s ever a done-deal or a set thing,” he confessed. “Anything
can happen. At one point I was still 30-odd points out of the lead,
so I thought, ‘Man, it’s still... click on ozzy go to the full story