Koontz Series "Pheasant Run2" Youth

[Pappy]

A beautiful day greated the racers as the next round of the Koontz Adventure Series was back again at Pheasants Run. With perfect weather and a familiar track it looked to be a battle between Micheal Mussi and Dakota Shaffer as the last race had these two riders battling each other the entire race!

Five entries in the 50cc Open class

Micheal Mussi
Dakota Shaffer
Alexandria Bunner
Matthew Bunner
Ryan Hill

The 50cc start was clean with all riders getting a decent start

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Mussi (Green Arctic Cat) and Shaffer(Red Arctic Cat) go bar to bar into the 1st turn!

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Dakota Shaffer got the lead going into the woods with Mussi hot on him!

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Coming out of the woods, Mussi had the taken the lead with Shaffer 15 seconds back

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Shaffer was driving hard and wasnt out of contention!

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Matthew Bunner in 3rd at the end of lap 1

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Alexandria Bunner was in hot pursuit of her brother and as I stated before, she is improving every race!

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Lap 1, Ryan Hill in 5th and enjoying the race:p

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mechanical failure struck Dakota Shaffer mid way thru lap 2 when he hit the creek crossing and water swamped his airbox causing him to DNF.

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Ryan Hill pilots his eton down the creek bank

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SPLASH!

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Mussi hammers his 50 up out of the creek and was running strong!

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I caught Dakota being pushed back to the pits and snapped his picture. He was upset with the DNF, but I managed to get a big smile out of him before he moved on.

Now this picture was "PRE" smile:p

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Micheal Mussi takes the checkered flag and seals another class win!

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M. Mussi walking to get his plaque. I honestly think he was mad he didnt have anyone to bang bars with the last 5 laps:p

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Finishing order:

1st- Micheal Mussi
2nd- Alexandria Bunner!!! <-- Big Congrats on 2nd !!!
3rd - Matthew Bunner
4th - Ryan Hill
5th- Dakota Shaffer

A bit of wild stuff on the last lap. Ryan hill was in 4th, and on the last big hill he lost his brakes:eek: He passed BETWEEN 2nd and 3rd place while screaming down the hill....unfortunatley he stalled it and remained in 4th:p Nice save by his mom at the bottom of the hill also!

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90 cc was full of good riders today. A large class and added sections of track would prove to be difficult for some.

The start was clean, however Cody Hill failed to put his new TRX90 in gear and was last off the line!

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This is Cody's first race on his new honda so things like that can be expected. Here he is pictured (Yellow 90) trying to figure out whats going on!

Brandon Boso was also on a new ride today and did extremely well on it:macho

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Finally in the game, Cody wasted no time shifting thru the gears and getting towards the rest of the pack!

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A hard charge to the inside got him from dead last to 7th place after the first turn!!

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Second turn action had a Raptor 90 rolling down the hill coming to rest on its top!

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The end of lap 1 had Donnie Howell running first with Brandon Boso flat hauling butt on his new Polaris 90:macho

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Cody Cooper running 4th

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Cody Hill running 7th

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The 90cc class really hauls the mail! All the riders are getting better each week and some are just plain fun to watch!

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Brandon Boso took 1st in class aboard his new ride. Thats awesome and I cant wait to see him get an overall very soon!

I didnt get the results or watch the action closely today mainly because I was paying attention to Cody and his new 90. He did really well, finishing 6th in class. He got hung up on a stump on lap 3 and on lap 4 flipped the quad on himself on a nasty hillclimb:p No worse for wear, on the same lap he hit the kill switch and it cost him several spots from what I could see. He would have been in the top 5 im pretty sure.

The Youth race as always was a blast to watch! Congrats to all the riders that participated in today's event!

[Johnny & Monica]

Good pictures an covorage pappy.Where was this race at?

[Pappy]

Originally posted by mikeracerx34
Good pictures an covorage pappy.Where was this race at?

todays race was held in Parsons West Virginia, about 20 minutes outside Elkins.

www.koontzadventures.com

[Johnny & Monica]

Man it must be nice to live out east with all the races an gncc`s an all!! Your a lucky dog.....Which one was your son?

[cjpoole1]

Originally posted by Pappy
I didnt get the results or watch the action closely today mainly because I was paying attention to Cody and his new 90. He did really well, finishing 6th in class.
What happened to the E-ton?

[trx90863]

Originally posted by Pappy
Brandon Boso took 1st in class aboard his new ride. Thats awesome and I cant wait to see him get an overall very soon!

I didnt get the results or watch the action closely today mainly because I was paying attention to Cody and his new 90. He did really well, finishing 6th in class. He got hung up on a stump on lap 3 and on lap 4 flipped the quad on himself on a nasty hillclimb:p No worse for wear, on the same lap he hit the kill switch and it cost him several spots from what I could see. He would have been in the top 5 im pretty sure.

The Youth race as always was a blast to watch! Congrats to all the riders that participated in today's event! ;)


Congratualtions Cody with your new honda trx90 they are great bikes! Kyle has been sick all weekend wish we could have been there! looks like we missed a very interesting race

[Arctic Cat Dad]

Pappy, Great pictures once again. I'm glad to see these little guys get some coverage. Because they desirve it. There are some excellant riders in these youth classes. And Cody is one of them. He just needs some luck,like the off switch problem. But when you all get that new Honda dialed in look out.Your right about Michael he was mad that he didn't have someone to beat bars with him. He said he want's to race with the 90's.

#838's Dad

[Pappy]

trx90863:

yep, the course the 90's ran was a bit bigger then any previuos course we have raced on. I didnt have a problem with the course, but they need to have spotters at the bad areas ahead of time. One 90 flipped way down a hill with no injury to the rider. I liked the longer course and added obstacles, we will be much better prepared by the next race for that type of course just incase they add sections at another race.



Arctic Cat Dad:

haha...I knew he wanted a race! That kid has heart! Cody will snap in on the honda soon enough. I told him I thought he did pretty good for going from auto to a shifter quad. thats a pretty big change for someone to learn especially in a racing enviorment. We have the pipe and rims coming in so i expect that to help a ton, along with some front Elka shocks and a steering stabilizer.