AST Dew Tour wraps up successful fourth stop in Salt Lake City.The AST Dew Tour wrapped up its fourth event of the 2007 season with the completion of the Toyota Challenge on Sunday at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. Toyota Challenge event winners included: Jamie Bestwick (BMX Vert), James Foster (BMX Dirt), and Scotty Cranmer (BMX Park). The four-day competition drew 61,910 fans, the largest recorded attendance in AST Dew Tour history. The five-event AST Dew Tour that features skateboarding (SKB), BMX and freestyle motocross (FMX) will next visit Orlando for its finale, the Playtation Pro October 18-21.
In a tough competition filled with several highly technical tricks, Scotty Cranmer narrowly edged out Australia’s Ryan Guettler to win the BMX Park finals. Cranmer, 20, of Jackson, N.J., secured the win by completing a front flip tailwhip, the first time it was ever performed in competition for a 93.17 score.
“I came around and as soon as I felt the bike grab and rolled away, I was like ‘Yeah!’,” Cranmer said. Cranmer said he has been trying to perform the trick for years, and only landed it in recent weeks.
“That’s the only reason I came here, was to land that trick,” Cranmer added.
Guettler finished with a 92.50 score and Ryan Nyquist of Greenville, N.C. finished in third with a score of 91.67. Jamie Bestwick moved closer to a third straight Dew Cup by winning the BMX vert finals and James Foster claimed his first AST Dew Tour victory in the BMX dirt finals on Friday.
Bestwick, 36, scored 94.00 points to beat the 92.50 of fellow Briton Simon Tabron. Australia's Steven McCann was third with 91.00 points. -Bestwick has won at 11 of 14 Dew Tour stops since 2005. "I have a few good things I’ve been working on that I plan to showcase in Orlando in the finals," Bestwick said. "There’s a lot on the line next month. I’m going to work on the things that I couldn’t get done here and try to give it to the fans in Florida."
-Foster, 21, of Redlands, Calif., clinched the victory with a highly technical flawless final run to finish with a 93.25 average score. Foster’s previous best finish this season was seventh. “I gave it everything I could,” Foster said. “I was just trying to make the podium and the windshield wiper (highly technical tailwhip trick) did it. I’m seriously ecstatic … I don’t know what to say.” Cameron White of Australia finished second with a 92.92 and Mike Aitken of Salt Lake City was third with a score of 90.50.
BMX Park Prelim results:
1st Dhers, Daniel 92.83
2nd Spinner, Mike 92.5
3rd Guettler, Ryan 92.33
4th Nyquist, Ryan 91.5
5th Cranmer, Scotty 91.5
6th Kiraly, Kevin 90.5
7th Canina, Diogo 89
8th Cooke, Allan 88.5 9th Whitton, Alistair 87.5
10th Enarson, Dennis 87.5
11th Dillewaard, Dave 87
12th Harrington, Josh 86.67
BMX Park Final results:
1st Cranmer, Scotty 93.17
2nd Guettler, Ryan 92.5
3rd Nyquist, Ryan 91.67
4th Dhers, Daniel 91.5
5th Spinner, Mike 90.17
6th Enarson, Dennis 89
7th Whitton, Alistair 88
8th Cooke, Allan 87
9th Kiraly, Kevin 86.33
10th Dillewaard, Dave 85.83
11th Canina, Diogo 85.5
12th Harrington, Josh 85
Park standings with one stop to go:
1st Dhers, Daniel 318 2nd Spinner, Mike 257
3rd Nyquist, Ryan 236
4th Cranmer, Scotty 197
5th Enarson, Dennis 172
6th Mirra, Dave 170
7th Cooke, Allan 165
8th Reynolds, Garrett 155
9th Harrington, Josh 143
10th McCann, Steven 139
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