Missouri Hare Scramble

The fourth round of the Hare Scramble Series took place in Kahoka and is a race that we have always liked.  The track is a combination of good single track broken up with a bunch of short grass track sections.  The race has been held in July for the last couple of years and it has always been a scorcher.  This year it was nice with perfect conditions in the trees and a bit of dust in the fields.  We ordered a pair of FMF SST pipe and silencers to try and this race would be the first chance to use them.  The new pipe worked awesome making our bikes run much cleaner and crisper than normal with a gain in power mostly on the top.  The power was so good that Brian got the holeshot this weekend.  He  got the jump on the pro field in the first turn and led us on to the motocross track.  The track looked hardpack when we got there in the morning and then I saw the tractor go around the track once and then watered it a bit.  From years past we have learned that this track is super loamy the first lap of the race and if we jump hard off the jumps that we will crash in the hard stuff.  The track was so loamy this year Brian went around one of the big berm turns and just sunk in the loam and into a big bog.  He made it through the section still in the lead and giving second place Fred Andrews a face full in the process.  A couple turns later Brian hit another one of these deep holes and stuck it a bit and Andrews, Chuck Woodford, and Shane Watts got by him.  I probably got about a sixth place start but got caught up with a few other riders in the second turn, falling over and lost of few spots.  This year there were a few trails that we had never been on and it was nice hitting some fresh trails covered with leaves on the first lap instead of the chop that we see the first lap in a GNCC.    I got around a few guys in each of the first grass track sections moving into seventh halfway into the first lap.  Brian was in a battle with Woodford for third the first lap until Chuck got a suspected case of armpump and dropped off the pace.  Brian next got a challenge from the defending champ Paul Edmondson.  Paul had a good pace going and Brian hooked on to him and followed him for the next couple of laps.  Brian was shown a hot line from Andrews on the first lap that was arrowed and went around a mud hole to the right instead of the left like everyone else was doing and used the line to get by Paul on the third lap regaining third place.  I was racing a bit with Blair Bersano and Woodford for the first four laps but settled down into seventh place.  Brian then experienced some problems with his pipe coming off the head and had to stop in the pits and fix it at the end of the fifth lap.  He was also having some problems with his floats and had to stop an extra time for gas but we had the crew from Funmart Cycles helping with pits for the day and got us gas quickly each time.  At the end of the race I saw Brian ahead of me and tried to sneak up on him but he heard me and picked up the pace to the finish.  Shane Watts had something to prove this weekend and he did taking the win by five minutes over Fred Andrews.  The finish was in an old barn which had a concrete floor and Shane did a big old burnout for all the fans to enjoy.  Chuck Woodford finished in third with Blair Bersano fourth, and Brian and I in fifth and sixth.

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