ATV Riders Message Board Articles Reviews Videos Photo Gallery wallpaper Links ATV SxS News Interviews Racing News Models Donations Quad of the Month Contact Us

Can-Am ATV MFG News Header Bar
Can-Am ATV Manufacturer Logo
Can-Am X-Team ATV Racing Logo

Can-Am / Dudding Racing's GNCC Round 3 ATV Race Report
GNCC Racing - Round 3- FMF Steel Creek -March 21, 2009

Jerime Dudding Can-Am Renegade ATV Smith

Jerime Dudding finished 4th in class and 28th overall out of the 313 entries in the morning race at the Steele Creek GNCC

West Virginia (3/25/2009) - I felt great traveling down to Morganton, NC on Friday. The conditions looked like they were going to be just about perfect and I had a huge level of confidence in my machine and myself. I had quite a bit of time to set the bike up for this weekend and it was working flawlessly.

Custom Axis sent me a new set of their Pro Air shocks over and I had raced them in a local race during the off weekend. I was extremely impressed with them and couldn’t wait to see how they would do at a GNCC.

Saturday morning we all woke up to freezing weather. The temperature gauge was reading 32 degrees at race time. To say the least I wasn’t looking forward to taking the plunge through the Steele Creek!!

At the drop of the flag once again I didn’t get a great start. I was close to the last of the pack before entering the woods. I knew this was going to be another day where I was going to have to make my move quickly.

I soon found myself making up time fairly well. By the time the 3rd lap rolled around I was in fourth and had 3rd place in view. The Renegade was really working well and I felt really good. Third place was held by Sam Williams last years U2 champ and a newly converted Can-am Renegade rider. I rode behind him for a few miles waiting for an opportunity to pass. I knew the creek was coming up and I knew I could pull make a pass in the creek crossing. We hit the creek about the same time but I was able to pull off the pass. After the pass I put my head down and was going to do my best to track down the leaders.

Not too long after the creek my quad started handling very strange. I felt like I couldn’t make it do anything I wanted. It had tremendous body roll and I definitely had my hands full.

I knew something was wrong but I knew if I would stop I would sacrifice my positions. I just kept going as best I could to finish the race. I ended up dropping back to fourth and as upsetting as that was there was just not much I could do about it.

Come to find out the front sway bar mount had broken leaving it just dangling there. Causing the quad to roll and be unstable. We had set the shocks up to be very plush and rely on the sway bar for stability. It was great while it worked!!

I am going to do my best to put Steele Creek behind me and look forward to the BIG BUCK. Congratulations to all the other X team riders this past weekend especially Lexie Coulter for getting her first Overall Podium of the year!

I'll see everyone in South Carolina, I hope it’s a Mud Fest!

About BRP
Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. (BRP), a privately-held company, is a world leader in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and marketing of motorized recreational vehicles. Its portfolio of brands and products includes: Ski Doo® and Lynx™ snowmobiles, Sea Doo® watercraft and sport boats, Johnson® and Evinrude® outboard engines, direct injection technologies such as Evinrude E TEC®, Can Am™ all-terrain vehicles, Rotax® engines and karts.

Can-Am ATV Manufacturer Logo Small
www.can-am.brp.com

Discuss this in ATVriders.com Forum

Copyright 2002-2022, ATV Riders All Rights Reserved - ATV Riders Forum - Message Board - Archive