Jared Souney © Lat34
And Then There Were Four
Oct 12 2006 / Orlando, FLThe top four riders in today’s BMX Vert Prelims – Chad Kagy, Jamie Bestwick, Simon Tabron, and Kevin Robinson – also happen to be the top four riders in the overall Dew Tour standings. In fact, each of these four riders have placed in the top four in the Finals of all four Dew Tour events. Coincidence?
To take it four times further, Bestwick is looking for a four-peat to follow up on his series of wins in Denver, Portland, and San Jose. While tomorrow’s contest is up in the air – look for four familiar faces in the top four – Bestwick probably has the overall Dew Tour points contest in the bag. His meager 2nd place finish in Louisville is the only mark on an otherwise flawless Tour record: With 375 points, he is well ahead of Kagy (280), Robinson (244), and Tabron (218) and will likely be repeating his 2005 Dew Tour championship title.
Not only that, but Bestwick’s 375 points also put him in the lead for an additional $25,000 Dew Tour prize for the most overall points in any discipline (Ryan Sheckler has 355 points over in the Skate Park, Nate Adams has 350 in FMX, Bucky Lasek has 313 in Skate Vert, and BMX Park and Dirt riders Scotty Cranmer and Luke Parslow have 297 and 288, respectively. On top of any prize he wins for the PlayStation Pro while he’s in Orlando, Bestwick stands to make $100,000 and drive off in a new Toyota when they hand out the Dew Cup prizes on Sunday.
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Jay Eggleston, Dennis McCoy, Jimmy Walker, Francisco Zurita, Tom Stober, Mike Mancuso, Koji Kraft, and John Parker also made the cut for tomorrow’s Finals.
There were moments in today’s Prelims – Kagy’s inverted flair, Stober’s fastplant flair, Tabron’s 540 turn down, and Bestwick’s opposite 540 – that made it feel like the Big Show. As Dennis McCoy put it when asked about the rate of progression in BMX, “Things have changed dramatically.”
