This past weekend we attended the Steel City Nationals in Export, PA. The Pro races on Saturday were awesome. James Stewart won the MX classes while breaking the record books as being only the second MX rider to have the perfect season and the only rider to accomplish the Triple Crown. Ryan Villipoto had a bad weekend in the MX Lites class and was not able to muster up the overall win to accomplish his Triple Crown goal. Ryan Dungey would get the overall victory in the MX Lites class

Brandon raced on Sunday. The track was good throughout the morning, but quickly deteriorated throughout the afternoon. Our last moto was around 7:30 at night and the track was almost unrideable with the sun blinding the faces of the jumps. In his first round of moto's, he was still dialing in the track as evident by his bad finish. Throughout the day, he consistently improved.

In the first Super Mini moto, he got a really bad start but was able to muster up to 4th place.

In the first Super Mini 2 moto, another bad start... but was able to make up much more time by being the only Super Mini to attack the Pro Triple-Double. This was an unforgiving jump and it was quite impressive to see him do the jump. In fact, I believe he got more cheers from spectators than the winner did for this accomplishment.

In the Schoolboy class, he started out with the holeshot and checked out on all the other riders. His second moto in the schoolboy class again gave him the holeshot, but another rider was able to get around him at the bottom of the first off camber hill. Brandon stumbled as the other rider passed and attempted to catch him through the three lap moto. The Pro Triple-Double at this point was too choppy to get a drive to the jump. so Brandon double, single, doubled through the section. This was almost as impressive as triple doubling as he was the only rider all weekend to be able to maneuver in this manor. The sun was blinding this late in the evening and the riders could barely see the track Brandon's line choices and speed left the two of them coming across the finish line with less than one bike between them.

Overall Finishes w/moto finishes in parenthesis

• Super Mini 1  - 2nd overall (4-2)
• Super Mini 2 - 2nd overall (2-2)
• Schoolboy1 - 2nd overall (1-2)