2005 Extreme Dirt Track ATV Racing - RD#3 - Pine Lake - ATV Race Coverage

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Ashtabula, OH - FMF Extreme Dirt Track ATVA National racers and their families began arriving early at the Pine Lake facility just outside Ashtabula, Ohio. By sunset on Thursday, 2 days before the event, the shaded pits among the Ohio hardwoods were beginning to fill. By the time sign up and tech inspection rolled around Friday afternoon, 482 entries lined up to put their name on the race list and have their machines tech inspected. History was in the making with this record number of entries for the 31st annual Pine Lake event.

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Bud Fischer's track crew consist of volunteers from local organizations who are welcomed year around to enjoy the lake, hunting and fishing privileges of the Pine Lake campground "free" as Fischer's way of saying thank you. These numerous volunteer track personnel ran a tight ship at the Ashtabula event and there were plenty of them to keep the event running smooth.

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Robbie Whitehead of North Carolina announced Round 2 of this year's Dirt Track series in Danville, Virginia at Birch Creek and was invited up to Ashtabula to keep the racers and fans informed as to what was going on all weekend long. Robbie spent most of his time in the scoring tower above the "Granddaddy Of Them All" dirt tracks on the FMF/ATVA circuit promoting sponsors, filling in tid-bits of information about all the racers and creating an on track excitement for the fans as he called the races.

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James Perry of JPMX stopped where he was supposed to at the black top starting area. All over the pits and track, one only had to read the signs to know what they were supposed to do and not supposed to do. Fischer's crew, and there were a lot of them, conducted the races in a highly organized way with a polished professionalism. Many of them had been working with Fischer for years.

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There's nothing like a Dirt Track fan with classic wheels. We snapped this shot of an Ohio fan as he two wheeled his way through the pits on his classic bicycle. After watching him tool around the vending area it struck us that he had small wheels in the back and big ones in the front, just like a lot of the 90 Mod. and 90 Production class quads competing on the track.

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Kaleb Dycus and his dad made the trip from Arkansas to test their skills in the 90 Mod class at Pine Lake. "This is the best track there is for TT, I mean, Dirt Track racing. You can't beat it. It's like the Loretta's of the Dirt Track series." Kaleb's dad remarked about the famous Pine Lake track.

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Umbrellas on Saturday were up for shade. On Sunday, they would be used for another purpose.

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This Fischer crew member comes back year after year to take on his responsibilities of pointing down the racers just before the light goes green. All day long he runs from one side of the blacktop starting pad. If you're not ready, you'd better raise your hand because once he zipps across the front line of 10 racers the light's going green faster than you can blink.

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Mitch Reynolds smokes his tires leaving the starting pad. After the Ashtabula Round 3, Reynolds held down the 2nd place overall points standing in the Pro/Am Unlimited class and the 4th place overall position in the Pro/Am Production class.

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Keith Little (#12) came out alive and kicking in the first Pro qualifier. He led Harold Goodman all the way to the checkers and posted the fastest lap time in the qualifiers which would benefit him immensely after Sunday's rain out.

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Scott Morris (#32) put in his best Pro performance on the year with a ninth place finish at Ashtabula's shortened program. Morris currently holds down the 10th spot overall ranking in the Pro class and the Pro/Am Production class as well.

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Darin Ogden was on his game during Saturday's second Pro qualifier. Jumping out of the gate and letting it all loose, Ogden missed posting the fastest Pro lap time by just a few thousandths behind Keith Little. With Sunday's mains being cancelled due to rain, Ogden took the second place finish behind Keith Little at the event. Ogden currently, after 3 rounds, holds down the 1st place overall points standing in the Pro/Am Production class and sits in 4th place in the Pro standings.

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Daryl Rath of Rath Racing fault off Shane Hitt in the Pro qualifier to pull down a 5th place finish at Pine Lake. After the first three rounds, Rath leads the points race in the Pro/Am Unlimited class and sits in 6th overall in the Pro standings.

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Team Honda's Tim Farr finished 2nd behind Ogden in the second Pro qualifier but, after the points were tallied by the qualifiers due to the rain out on Sunday, Farr wound up with a 4th place finish at his home track in Ashtabula. Farr, after the 3rd round slipped from second in the series standings down to 3rd behind Little and Goodman.

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Lonestar's Keith Litte, the reigning 2004 National TT Champion, was nothing but focus and speed at Pine Lake. After posting the fastest qualifying time in the Pro heats, Little took home the win. With 3 rounds in the books, Little found himself in a dead tie with Harold Goodman. Both Little and Goodman had posted a win, a second, and a third in each of their series opening rounds.

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The amateur battle of the weekend came in the 90 Modified class. Going into the Pine Lake round, Michael Blanchard (#23) held a slight points lead over Joel Hetrick (#88). From the second the green light said go, it was nothing but intense competition between these two youth riders. When the checkers waved after the six lap heat, Hetrick had the edge and took the win just a wheel's length or two ahead of Blanchard. Hetrick's win put him in the lead in the 90 Mod class with a 2 point lead over Blanchard.

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Saturday's umbrellas for shade turned into shelter from the storm on Sunday. After showers drenched the Pine Lake track and, after a fruitless attempt of numerous volunteers on golf carts, quads, mules and even pit bikes to dry out the track, Fischer and crew got one main event in and two laps of another before having to cancel the Sunday mains.

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Jack Moore, Angela Moore's father, and #88 in the 40 Plus class found the track a little slick when they attempted to run the main event. Here, Moore's seen conversing with a fellow 40 Pluser as they creep around the holeshot. It's not very often racers get the chance to talk while making the holeshot at Ashtabula.

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Manley Jones (#807) has been known to go the wrong way on a one way street more than once. Just ask his buddies! During the second start of the 40 Plus main on Sunday's slick circuit, Jones once again proved that he's still got what it takes to make donuts out of holeshots.

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Pow-wow after pow-wow took place at the blacktop starting pad in a effort to sort out "Do we race?" or "Don't we?"

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Harold Goodman walks cautiously around the rain slicked blue groove of Ashtabula after all is said and cancelled. He, as many, were disappointed that they didn't get another day on the famous Pine Lake circuit. Every racer who's ever launched off the freshly painted squares of the Ashtabula starting pad knows that they're getting another chance to test their skills at the world famous "Grandaddy Of Them All" when it comes to TT, uh, we mean, Dirt Tracks on the FMF Extreme Dirt Track ATVA Nationals.

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Special Thanks to David Screws - ATV Racin' Extra for the report and photos.

Rick Frisco with REMNS will be providing more coverage from the event.

[MX300ex]

wow that looks sick

[smorris]

Originally posted by Admin
Scott Morris (#32) put in his best Pro performance on the year with a ninth place finish at Ashtabula's shortened program. Morris currently holds down the 10th spot overall ranking in the Pro class and the Pro/Am Production class as well.
Thanks for the publicity!! Sorry to tell ya that I,m number 43.....
The picture you have is Mark Noreill in the +30 class ..He smoked em real good. Heres my picture from the weekend..
Thanks, Scott

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Heres a clean one......before the rain on sunday..
Thanks , Scott Morris#43

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We got some decent pics from some of the heat races on sat..
This is from the womens heats..Candace Lee leading the race after losing the lead briefly to Lakyn Spear..

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Some of the + 40 heat race with my buddy Donnie Allgood #28
running mid-pack

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Darrin Ogden leading the pack his pro heat...

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Tim Farr keeping him honest...

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Chad Stevens walking off with the production A class

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+40 class .......World famous ...lol ..Manley Jones out front after Ken Marcou
pulls off the track thinking the white flag was checkered...
(sorry Ken , had to post this one).......This would have been a good one if not for rain sunday....

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Tyler Brock ..another NC based rider showing his riding form..

[TCracin440ex]

Originally posted by smorris
Some of the + 40 heat race with my buddy Donnie Allgood #28
running mid-pack

donnie allgood is from my hometown...woot he used to mx, but now hes doin TT

[iceracer65]

here are a few i got....

Ken Marcou
http://pstuning.com/forums/gallery_uploads/1120002896/gallery_165_22_197209.jpg

Darin Ogden leading Tim Farr
http://pstuning.com/forums/gallery_uploads/1120002896/gallery_165_22_72068.jpg

teen phenom Mitch Reynolds
http://pstuning.com/forums/gallery_uploads/1120002896/gallery_165_22_92116.jpg

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me holding on to a 3rd place finish in the 4stroke A heat:D
http://pstuning.com/forums/gallery_uploads/1120002896/gallery_165_22_88910.jpg

nervous on the line...check out the retro pants!
http://pstuning.com/forums/gallery_uploads/1120002896/gallery_165_22_245269.jpg

[RemNS]

By chance, would anyone have saved the moto order from Saturday's qualifiers at Ashtabula!

I thought I had them but they were Sunday's moto's that I kept!

I need them top seperate the photos by the classes to post them up on the net!

Any help would be appreciated!

Rick

[iceracer65]

not off hand...we had one but as you can guess i have no idea what happend to it.:confused:

just put some of me up LOL;)

[smorris]

Hey Rick, We had em wrote down in the trailer....If nobody threw it away I'll get it for ya.

[RemNS]

Thanks Guys! Appreciate the help!

[bradley300]

is there a website i can go to and learn more about racing the EDT nats? i'd really like to race a time or two, but ive got no idea where to start

[iceracer65]

try here:ATVA (http://atvaonline.com/)

[Evana13]

anybody got any youth atv