CMRA Championship Series Round 10 Texas World Speedway College Station, TX Oct. 1-2, 2005 Ty Howard clenched the CMRA overall number one plate for 2005 plus five class championships at the 10th and final round of the Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association’s championship series held at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas. Howard topped three expert divisions during Sunday’s sprint-race action, taking home nearly $5000 in purse and contingency money for the weekend, however, Houston’s Ronnie Lunsford claimed the biggest paycheck of the weekend by winning the AF1 Racing Heavyweight Twins Expert title and the whopping $8000 prize that went along with it. Going into the weekend, Lunsford and Aprilia RSV1000-mounted Jon Francis were separated by only two points in the Heavyweight Twins Expert-class points race and whoever finished on top in the finale would claim the title and AF1-sponsored purse. Francis grabbed the holeshot and led the race until the final turn of the last lap, where he lost it in a water puddle just before the final straight. The resulting crash brought out the red flag and gave the Ducati 999-mounted Lunsford the win and the title. The Typhoon Racing-sponsored Howard claimed wins in the C Superstock Expert race, which features a $500 purse, the RaceworX C Superbike Expert race, which features a $150 purse, and the Pace American Trailers Formula 1 Expert race, which features a $1000 purse. Among the other money winners was Jeffrey Harder Jr., who took wins in the Sum of all Parts A Superstock Expert race, which features a $150 purse and the Motorcycles Unlimited A Superbike Expert race, which features a $150 purse. Dane Westby was another multi-class winner, taking wins in the D Superstock Expert race, the South Central Race Center D Superbike Expert race, which features a $150 purse, and the Formula CMRA Heavyweight race, while Bill Syfan won the 125 GP race, which features a $250 purse and Eric Falt won the Lightweight Twins Expert race, which features a $500 purse. Michael Sanchez won the Racing Performance Services B Superstock Expert race, which features a $150 purse and Tyler McDonald won the Super Motard race, which pays a $250 purse. The final race of the day, and the season, for that matter, was the Komodo Racing B Superbike Expert/ B Superbike Novice race, which was won by Bryan West. Westy claimed the lion’s share of the $250 purse for his efforts. In the Novice divisions, William Guthrie posted three wins, while Brandon Spradling, Cory Burleson and Myles Turner each had two. Northwest Honda Racing claimed their sixth overall endurance title since 1993 with a conservative finish in Saturday’s Shogun Motorsports CMRA Endurance Series finale, while Desert-Rats.net outraced KNMotorcycles.com to the finish line to win their first race of the year. KNMotorcycles.com had built substantial leads on several occasions during the five hour event, but red flags wiped out their advantage each time. The last of three red flags, with an hour-and-a-half left in the race, left seven teams on equal terms for the final sprint to the finish. KNMotorcycles.com and Desert-Rats.net swapped leads several times, en route to the finish, before KNMotorcycles.com’s Will Gruy went down on the final lap. The win secured second overall in the standings for Desert-Rats.net, in addition to the A Superstock title, while KNMotorcycles.com finished third overall for the year and won the C Superstock championship. Third overall in the race went to Team O’Donnell, who topped 2005’s “hard-luck” team, Village Idiots, for the C Superbike title. The Village Idiots won two endurance rounds in 2005, but DNFs doomed them to sixth overall for the year. 2Wheels.com won the Formula 1 class with a fifth overall finish, while Fireball Racing claimed the Formula 2 win and title with a 10th overall finish. In Saturday’s mini sprint races, Tyler McDonald won the Formula 4 race, while Conner Blevins topped the Formula 6 division. In the Formula 5 class, Derek Wagnon took the win and Blevins returned to win the Formula 7 class. Over 550 sprint entries and 48 endurance teams graced the grids for the final weekend of racing on the high-banked speedway.