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Quad75Dezert
ATV Race Team placed 5th at San Felipe
250 after experiencing a transmission
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Las Vegas, NV (3/16/2012)
- Team Quad75Dezert conquers adversity and
places 5th at the 44th Annual SCORE San Felipe
250. After a week of pre-running in Mexico
and about 100 miles of testing and tuning
on the race bike, the team woke early March
10th to race the San Felipe 250. After a solid
week the team was feeling good about their
sections and the course, however their race
would be plagued with problems, the least
severe being stray cactus injecting itself
into riders, the most severe being a transmission
failure that would leave the team struggling
for top speed for most of the race.
Brandon Brown took the start until Race
Mile 30. Within the first 10 miles Brandon
nearly crashed, and was unable to recover
until well after he got off the bike. Jorie
Williams took over from 30 and rode to Morelia
Junction at RM 94. It was during his section
that 5th gear broke, leaving only 1-4. Mechanic
Kenny Sanford took the bike through one
of the roughest sections, from Morelia to
Race Mile 127 where Jamie Kirkpatrick got
on the bike to complete the bottom loop
of the course.
Unfortunately, shortly after Kenny got
on the quad, 3rd gear gave way. When Jamie
made it around to pit at Race Mile 169,
approximately 20 minutes behind the leading
ATV team of Josh Frederick and Dillon Zimmerman,
he said the bike was stuck in gear, and
the pit crew had to push him to keep the
bike from stalling when he left. He made
it to RM 190 and Brandon took a 25 mile
section to Race Mile 215 where he handed
the bike to Jorie Williams for the finish.
Jorie struggled a little through the new
wash - he could only go as fast as 4th gear
would allow, but he had prerun it going
much faster. He rolled through the finish
in the early afternoon, the 6th ATV to physically
cross the finish line.
"It was frustrating, but we made it
work," Brandon Brown said at the finish
line, "Obviously we would have liked
to do better, and we'll be working extra
hard to prepare for the 500, but we finished."
Kenny Sanford stated that the team has never
had a transmission failure and was interested
to open it up and investigate.
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Quad75Dezert
ATV San Felipe Race Team
Brandon Brown, Jorie Williams, &
Jamie Kirkpatrick
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The team will return in June with the addition
of Richie Brown to take on the Baja 500.
They would like to thank the following people
and companies for their support: Tire Blocks,
S&S Motorsports, Waterwell Developing
& Surveys, Fox Racing Shox, Maxxis,
Klim, Teixeira Tech, HMF Racing, K&N
Filters, CBR Performance, HB Jaeger, UPP
Racing, Fullbore Innovations, HiPer, Pro
Armor, ProCaliber.com, IMS, TCS Motorsports,
Spider Grips, Warn Industries, QuadTech,
Maxima, Precision Racing Products, Fusion
Graphixx, Powermadd, Asterisk, Wiseco, We
All Ride, Scott USA, Rekluse, Trail Tech,
Streamline, Hot Rod Fabrication, KBH Construction,
Cycle Wash, Dune Tech, PitTraffic.com &
Murray211
Special thanks to Sean McHugh, Dan Wade,
Dan Kirkpatrick, Joey
Kirkpatrick, Brad Williams, Mary McHugh
& Ken Sanford.
