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  Cody Annable gets his first

Several riders at the AMA Dirt Track Grand Championships are repeat customers, and for good reason. One, it's an awesome week of motorcycle racing. Two, the kids are just plain fast and enjoy the world-class competition. So, it's not surprising that you get experienced champions on the box.

But every year, there are still first-time winners, kids such as Cody Annable from Sumner, Washington, who won the Friday TT race in the 50cc Peewee, 4-8 Stock class. And he did so in an exciting way, with a last turn pass for the win.

Cayde Schmulbach got the holeshot and led Annable and Alec Espos for most of the race. Annable kept it close, however, and nearly made the pass over the second jump on the last lap.

However, Annable got pushed wide going into the final turn and gave Schmulbach back the lead. It looked like Annable was stuck with second, but Schmulbach made a mistake exiting the turn onto the front straight and Annable blasted past and held on for the win.

"Man, it's pretty awesome," said Annable, who gets support from Downtown Harley Davidson and American Custom Cycle back in Washington. "I got a bad start and was in second most of the race, but got by. When I saw him go wide, all I could think was, oh, man, I got him."

The best part was Dad's reaction when Annable got back to the pits.

"He was crying," Annable said. "But it was a happy cry, though."

Dad was done crying by the time we caught up to Team Annable in the pits. Grandpa? Grandpas are too tough to cry.