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RACE REPORTS 04 PAGE 1

1-25-04---THE RACE STARTED OUT WITH ME GETTING An OK START. I COULD SEE JENNIFER AND MIKE(I THINK) TO MY LEFT. I ALSO COULD SEE PATTY AND SHAUN TO THE RIGHT. I JUST WANTED TO GET AHEAD OF JENNIFER SO I LET PATTY AND SHAUN GO AND TUCKED IN BEHIND THEM SINCE JENNEFER KEPT GOING FURTHER AND FURTHER OFF COURSE TO THE LEFT. IT TOOK ME A WHILE FOLLOWING SHAUN AND PATTY TO REMEMBER THIS WAS A NATIONAL NOT JUST A DISTRICT RACE. PATTY MISSED A GEAR OR SOMETHING SO SHAUN AND I GOT BY. SHAUN WAS RIDING A LITTLE CRAZY SO I FIGURED STAY CLOSE SO I COULD PASS HIM WHEN HE MAKES A MISTAKE. WE THEN CAME TO THE WATERFALL WHERE SHAUN GOT STUCK. I GOT OFF TO HELP HIM AND PATTY PULLED UP SOON FOLLOWED BY THE GUY ON THE KAW 700, MIKE. WE GOT SHAUN OFF THE ROCKS THEN IT WAS MY TURN TO GET STUCK. I THEN GOT MY SELF UNSTUCK WILL SHAUN WAITED. ANDREA THEN PULLS UP. NEXT IT WAS PATTYS TURN TO GET STUCK. MIKE AND KAW GUY HELPED PATTY WHILE WE WAITED. ONCE SHE WAS UNSTUCK I LET SHAUN PASS AND WE WERE ON OUR WAY. I FOLLOWED SHAUN RIGHT THROUGH A LEFT TURN SIGN SO WE TURNED AROUND AND PATTY PASSED ME. WE THEN CAME UP TO A STEEP UP HILL AND SHAUN SLOWED AND PATTY WENT UP IT ANDTIPPED OVER AT THE TOP. I YELLED ARE YOU ALRIGHT AND SHE SAID YES. WHILE SHE WAS TIPPING HER QUAD BACK OVER I LOOKED FOR ANOTHER WAY UP MIKE FLEW UP IT. I GOT UP AND WAITED FOR SHAUN WHILE PATTY AND MIKE TOOK OFF. SHAUN FOLLOWED ME FOR AWHILE BUT HE FLIPPED THE QUAD OVER ON TO HIMSELF GOING UP A HILL AND AVOIDING A GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE. I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE HE WAS
THERE. THERE WAS SOME VERY DIFFICULT TERRAIN FOR THIS QUAD RIDER. I FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO MIKE IN THE HILL SECTION WITH THE TRUCK. I SOON PASSED HIM AND I THOUGHT I LEFT HIM WAY BEHIND. HE ENDED UP PASSING ME BACK ABOUT 2 MILES FROM THE FINISH. THOSE STOCK SHOCKS DIDN'T WORK WELL WITH THE MILES AND MILES OF WHOOPS. JUST NOT MY DAY. OH WELL I WILL HAVE TO GET THEM NEXT TIME. FINAL PLACES FOR THIS RACE CHARILE 12:24, JC 12:25, GREG GILES 12:30, ERIC 12:35, TODD 12:36, PATTY 12:39, MIKE 12:40, ME 12:41, SHAUN 12:46, ANDREA 1:03, ROB 1:03, CHRIS 1:06, RICK 1:07, JOSE 1:24, P36 1:44

WORCS HAVASUE--THURSDAY STEVE TOOK OUR TRAILER DOWN AND DROPPED IT OF SO FRIDAY WE COULD JUST CRUISE RIGHT DOWN THERE AFTER WORK AND GET THERE BEFORE THE GATES CLOSE. FRIDAY WE HAD TO WAIT ABOUT 1 1/2 FOR MY BROTHER IN LAW TO MEET US IN ONTARIO. TRAFFIC WAS BAD. BY THEN THE TRAFFIC WAS STOPPED IN ALL DIRECTIONS ON THE 10 AND 15. IT TAKES 1 HOUR TO GET FROM THE 10 15 INTERCHANGE TO THE 215/15 INTERCHANGE. WE KNEW IT WOULD BE CLOSE. WE CIRCLE THE LITTLE ISLAND FOR THE RACE AREA. COME TO THE GATES AND THEY ARE CLOSED. WE THINK WE ARE 15MIN. LATE BUT IN REALTY WE ARE 1HOUR 15MIN. LATE. WE TRY AND TRY TO LET THE SECURITY GUARD TO LET US IN. HE SAYS NO WAY BUT SOME GUY ON A GOLF CART HAS THE POWER TO DO THAT. WE LUCK OUT BECAUSE HERE HE COMES TO TELL THE SECURITY GUARD TO NOT LEAVE THE GATE BECAUSE SOMETHING ALREADY GOT STOLEN. JUST THE BREAK WE NEEDED. AFTER I EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPEN AND THAT WE HAVE NO PLACE FOR OUR WIFES TO STAY. I ALSO TELL HIM WE WILL PAY HIM THE MONEY OR LEAVE OUR DRIVERS LICENCES. HE FINALLY SAYS OK. AS WE PULL UP TO THE TRAILER I REMEMBER I FORGOT TO BRING THE KEY TO THE PAD LOCK ON THE TRAILER. WE HAD TO BREAK THAT OFF. NOTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING RIGHT. AS I DRIFT OFF TO SLEEP I WONDER WHAT THINGS ARE INSTORE FOR US TOMORROW. SAT. WE GET UP AND KATE WARMS UP BREAKFAST. AFTER BREAKFAST SHAUN ARRIVES WITH HIS FLEET OF QUADS.
THERE WASN'T MUCH ROOM BUT WE FIT THERE STUFF IN. MIKE PREPS THE QAUD. WHEN HE IS DONE I SAY OH YEAH THE PIPE WAS SUCKING AIR CAN YOU TIGHTEN THE HEADER PIPE. WHEN HE WENT TO DO IT WE WERE MISSING A STUD. OOPS... LUCKY BOB HAD A BOX OF BOLTS AND MIKE FOUND ONE TO FIT. IT IS GETTING REALLY HOT BY 2:30 WHEN ITS TIME TO GO LINE UP. I HAD BEEN DRINKING SO MUCH. I GOT A GOOD START AND WAS LIKE 3RD INTO THE FIRST CORNER WITH PATTY RIGHT BEHIND ME. BY THE END OF LAP 1 I WAS IN 2ND PLACE. BY THE END OF LAP 2 I WAS IN FIRST. THEN IT HAPPENED ON OF THE A RIDERS WAS GOING SLOW ON A KAW. AND MOVED LEFT WHEN I WENT LEFT TO PASS AND I ENDED UP STUCK BETWEEN THE TIRE AND THE PLASTICS. A COUPLE OF PEOPLE GOT PASSED ME WHILE HE SAT ON HIS QUAD AND WATCHED ME TRY AND GET MY QUAD OUT. I WAS 3RD AT THE END OF LAP 3 AND I STARTED TO GET REAL HOT. ON LAP 5 I WAS SO I WAS CONSIDERING ON TAKING MY HELMET OFF. AS I CAME BY THE AREA WHERE MY FAMILY WAS WATCHING I TRIED TO TAKE OFF THE KIDNEY BELT AND ALMOST CRASHED. LUCKY THE CHECKERED CAME OUT.(3RD PLACE) I RODE STRAIGHT TO THE TRAILER AND TRIED TO TAKE MY STUFF OFF. I WAS TELLING THEM TO TAKE EVERYTHING OFF BUT THEY SAID ALL I DID WAS MUMMBLE. SO I WAS SITTING IN THE SHADE WITH ICE ON MY WRIST IN MY UNDERWEAR. I AM SURE THAT LOOKED FUNNY. PATTY GOT 6TH AND SHAUN 12TH IN THE SPORTS CLASS AND A VERY SORE THUMB.(HE IS NOT USE TO A THUMB THROTTLE.)
KATE AND MINDY MADE DINNER THAT WAS GREAT. IT WAS KATES BIRTHDAY ON SAT. HAD FUN SITTING AROUND TALKING TO PATTY, CHRIS, SHAUN, BOB, AND LORI. THANKS FOR JOIN US FOR KATES BIRTHDAY.
SUNDAY--I GOT UP EARLY COULD NOT SLEEP. PREP MY QUAD. NOBODY ELSE WAS UP YET. WONDERED HOW I WAS GOING TO GET THROUGH 80 MIN WHEN I COULDN'T GET THROUGH 45MIN. DRANK AS MUCH WATER AS I COULD. IT FELT HOTTER. TRIED TO TAKE A NAP BUT IT WAS HOT...SHAUN AND I SOAKED OUR JERSEYS IN THE ICE CHEST. WE WENT TO THE LINE ABOUT 30MIN BEFORE OR START TIME AND THEY SENT US BACK. SAID THEY HAD TO FIX THE TRACK IT WOULD BE ABOUT HOUR UNTIL OUR RACE. THEY CHANGED THE COURSE. FINALLY ITS TIME TO LINE UP. THE GUY TELLS SHAUN LINE 5 AND ME LINE 4 BUT WE ARE IN THE SAME RACE. THEN THE NEXT TWO PEOPLE COME OVER AND THEY SAY THE SAME THING. WE FINALLY FIND OUT WE ARE SUPPOSE TO BE ON LINE 5 THE LAST LINE. THEY THEN EXPLAIN THE NEW COURSE DIRECTION BUT THEY DON'T MAKE SENSE. THEY SHOW US SOME FUNKY START WHERE YOUR RIGHT HAND IS ON THE HELMENT AND LEFT HAND IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HANDLE BARS. LINE 1, THEN 30SEC LINE 2 AND SO ON UNTIL OUR LINE GOES. THE FLAG WAVES I SWITCH HANDS AND THE QUAD DIES. DAMN DAMN DAMN!!! THIS WEEKEND BLOWS..I AM THE SECOND TO LAST OFF THE LINE. I SCREAM DOWN THE OUTSIDE LET OFF LATE INTO THE CORNER. I DIDN'T KNOW IF I WAS GOING TO MAKE IT. I PICK OFF A FEW PEOPLE AND THEN THERE IS SHAUN JUST IN FRONT. I PASS HIM AROUND THE SECOND CORNER. OVER CLEAR THE LITTLE TABLE. THERE IS A YELLOW FLAG OVER THE NEXT JUMP. SOME GUY LAYS OFF TO THE LEFT. I PICK OFF A FEW MORE DOWN A LONG STRAIGHT WITH A FEW LITTLE JUMPS AND DIPS INTO A CORNER. ALL DAY I PASSED PEOPLE HERE. I HAD NO CLUE WHAT PLACE I WAS IN. I WAS JUST RIDING AS FAST AS I COULD PASSING A TON OF PEOPLE. I FIGURED I WAS GOING GOOD WHEN I PASSED LYNN BUT THEN I LAPPED HERE AND FIGURED SHE WAS JUST HAVING PROBLEMS. I HAD NO CLUE THAT ON LAP 5 I TOOK THE LEAD. I WAS TIRING ON LAP 9 AND THE STOCK SHOCKS WERE GIVING OUT. THEN THE WHITE FLAG CAME OUT AND I DECIDED THAT I WOULD RIDE IN FIRST GEAR TO PREVENT STALLING THE QUAD EXCEPT FOR THE LONG STRAIGHTS. I KEPT AN EYE ON PEOPLE BEHIND ME TO MAKE SURE NOBODY PASSED ME. I ENDED UP 1ST BY 4MIN. 10 SEC. AND 12TH OVERALL AND THATS WITHOUT ADJUSTING THE TIME FOR THE STAGGERD START.