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Glen Helen WORCS
I had a training meeting down in LA the week before Glen Helen so I was already down in the area. I raced the 250 race on Saturday on the 200 since I was going to do demo rides for KTM after the Saturday races. The race went pretty good. I felt alright and tried to learn the jumps on the motocross track. The track consisted of half the national track, then we went off it in the back and up a sandwash for a couple hundred feet and onto the back of the REM track. We did the REM track then went onto the other half of the national track, up one more sandwash, thru the parking lots behind the track, then back to the start. It was all moto and not very much off road. They did put out six logs in front of the grandstands for an off road section that was comical to watch some conquer some of natures elements. I don't know what place I finished but I felt fairly confident for Sundays race. I was also planning on switching to the four stroke for the race on Sunday which I thought would help. The demo rides went really well. We had great cooperation from the WORCs staff and we had about half an hour at the end of the day to let people try the 2005 KTM's. In the half hour we had 17 different people try out the bikes and all came away impressed with the way the bikes performed. It rained a little overnight which made it perfect down south. The first rain always is about the first time and I was excited about the race. A lot of people seemed concerned about the mud but it didn't even look muddy. When we lined up for the start I saw where it was going to be really muddy, the motocross track. It had been disked and turned into a big sloppy mess. On the start I spun along with just about everyone else. I didn't get too bad of a start, right about tenth but a few guys cut the first two corners and that dropped me back a few spots. Everyone but the leader got heavily roosted on the motocross section. When we went off the motocross course to the pro only section it was perfect. It was not even muddy. I managed to get around a few guys who had problems seeing and tried to charge early. After the first couple of laps I made it up into the top ten. The motocross track was really muddy though and I was struggling on the four stroke in the mud. I had never really raced the four stroke in those conditions before and the extra weight made it hard to ride like a two stroke in the mud- take your feet off the pegs and pin it. I settled into a comfortable pace when about halfway thru, my boss Revelle caught and passed me. I couldn't have that so I sped up and followed him for a couple of laps until I had trouble in a mud hole and he got away. Up front Bobby Bonds, Ty Davis, Nathan Wood, Destry Abbott, Kurt Caselli, and Russ Pearson had a great race for the win. Nathan was the clean one, the early leader until he stalled his bike and had trouble starting it. Bobby got into the lead but crashed out on the logs. Ty Davis took over the lead and had Destry and Caselli right on his tail. Russ was a ways back but charged up and passed the lead pack with a lap to go. On the last lap Russ had his bike just quit on him forcing him to push the last quarter of a mile to the finish. Ty took the win ahead of Destry and Caselli. Russ pushed his way into fourth followed by Bobby Garrison, David Pearson, David Reese, Revelle Harrison, myself, and Bryce Olsen. |