2022 WORCS Primm Finale Results

| November 8, 2022

Dante Oliveira capped off his championship season with another win in the Rocky Mountain ATV/MC WORCS Championship.

Dante Oliveira at 2022 WORCS Primm — **Dante Oliveira capped off his championship-winning season with another WORCS win at Primm. Oliveira will focus on the AMA Hare & Hound Championship next year.**

The 2022 season concluded where it started at in Primm, Nevada, November 5-6, and FMF/KTM’s Oliveira left no doubt who this year’s champion is. Oliveira, who had already clinched the Pro 450 and overall title, took the lead on lap four and never looked back, taking the checkered six laps later and nearly 10 seconds ahead of Austin Walton on the Rockstar Energy Husqvarna. At one point, Oliveira had a 30-second cushion on Walton, who whittled that significantly down late in the race.

Walton was credited with the holeshot, but when he momentarily dropped his bike, Precision Concepts Kawasaki’s Tyler Lynn found himself in the lead. He opened a 10-second gap before tightness in his forearms crept in and dropped him to fourth behind new leader Oliveira, Walton and Beta’s Dare DeMartile. Lynn, however, fought back and got back around DeMartile and started to slowly close in on the two riders—Oliveira and Walton—who were ahead of him but ended up finishing approximately 25 seconds behind Walton.

Jack Simpson at 2022 WORCS Primm — **Jack Simpson dominated the Pro 250 class.**

DeMartile ended up fourth and Tallon LaFountaine (Honda) rounded out the top five.

Mateo Oliveira, the 2022 Pro 250 Champion, moved up to the 450cc class for the first time for this race and took sixth.

In the Pro 250 class, SLR Honda’s Jack Simpson scored a wire-to-wire victory, which came a little easier since his season-long rival, Mateo Oliveira, had moved up to the 450cc class. It was a leisurely Sunday ride for Simpson who took the checkers with a comfortable one-minute and 16-second margin over the runner-up, Kai Aiello (3Bros Kilmartin Racing Husqvarna).

Aiello held second the whole way and had room to spare over the third-place rider, Colton Aeck (3Bros KTM).

Justin Seeds (Yamaha) and Thomas Dunn (Yamaha) rounded out the top five.

Brandy Richards at 2022 WORCS Primm — **Brandy Richards ran off with the Pro-Am class win.**

Women’s Pro Champion Brandy Richards (KTM) dominated the Pro-Am race. After passing holeshotter Corbin McPherson (Husqvarna), who was making his first appearance in the class, Richards ran off and hid, taking the checkers well ahead of the second-place rider, Mason Decunzo (KTM) out of Las Vegas. Decunzo also got around McPherson on the first lap and held second the whole way. Decunzo held a slight points lead over Richards for second place in the championship and he managed to take the spot just three points ahead of Richards. Collier Martinez had already clinched the class’ number-one plate and did not ride.

McPherson finished out his first Pro-Am race on the podium.

Hayden Florez (Yamaha) and Max Shapiro (Husqvarna) completed the top five.