2006 Worcs Round #7 Cinebar, Washington

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For the seventh round of the worcs series we traveled once again to Washington to race.

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Unlike that last race, we were very fortunate with the weather conditions. In other words it didn't rain all weekend.

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The track was set up excellent, as always. And although it did get very rough in the woods, the track stayed moist all weekend, so there was not much dust.

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This is what a lot of the track looked like, so you can bet that passing was very hard.

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Also many of the riders found themselves either hitting one of these or rubbing their tires against them, and they where trying to get through the corse.

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There where 17 pros signed up to race, with Doug Eichner in attendance who is currently leading the series.

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It was Doug Eichner who grabbed the holeshot, and knew he was off to a great start.

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And as the pro went around the corner, I realized that I was probably not in the best spot for taking pictures.

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As the wall of dust came at me, I knew I had no where to go.

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I just covered up the camera shortly after this and hoped for the best.

Let say that taking a shower that morning was pretty much pointless after this happened.

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Doug Eichner was still in the lead, as he was racing through the woods.

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Jeffrey Bocook was running in the second place position.

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Timothy Shellman was running in the third spot, but ended up DNF-ing towards the end of the race.

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Josh Frederick did not have a good start, but was working his way through the pack.

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Levi Marana was also making his way through the pack, and then dropped back a few positions, and then started moving up once again.

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Josh Frederick was closing the gap on Eichner. And they where the only two people who did the step up on the motocross section.

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Frederick caught Eichner and tried to make the pass which ended up in Frederick crashing. Eichner stopped to make sure the Josh was ok, and once he saw that he was he was back in the racing mode. Which shows what a great guy Eichner is.

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But Josh Frederick was a man on a mission.

He was able to not only catch back up to Eichner, but also make the pass to take home the win.

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Doug Eichner was still able to hold on to the second place position.

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And Levi Marana grabbed the third spot, and his first win for the year. Not only his first win, but one of his first races back.

Marana who was a worcs regular last year, was forced to take some time off in order to go in for shoulder surgery, and take the time to heal.

We are glad to see such a promising rider back out there.

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After the race, Levi called his grandmother to tell her how he did. You can bet that she was very excited.

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But when racing was said and done, it was Josh Frederick who took home the first place win for the seventh round of the series.

However Doug Eichner still has quite a lead for the overall points.

We will just have to wait out the next to rounds to see what will happen.

[CannondaleRider]

If you don't mind, i'd like to add an extra bit

I was standing a few yards from where Frederick wrecked. He tried to stuff his quad between the fence and Eichners bike. He must have caught a fencepost, but his bike stopped, rolled to the right, and slapped Frederick down to the ground. Although angry, he seemed fine....I was glad to see Eichner stop, Along with Joe Rarey(Team Money$hot #609) to make sure he was alright.

The only pic I got was right before the wreck, I didn't get any others because I was to busy trying to see if Josh was alright, and was trying to slow other riders down because it was right after the corner

As you can see, he was RIGHT on Eichners grab bar. And he attempted the pass charging hard.
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[F-16Guy]

Excellent sportsmanship by Eichner. I know those guys are really competitive on the track, but it's nice to see that concern for a fellow racer takes precidence.

Good to see Josh back on top of the podium! Get 'em, Fred!! :macho

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The pro am race is also ran during the pro race but rather then try to talk about them both at the same time I thought I would do them separately.

For the Pro Am Class it was Reed Petchnick who grabbed the holeshot.

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As you can see from the picture is was very hard to see during the first corner, so grabbing the holeshot was defintley an advantage.

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And Reed definetley took the advantage, and already had a decent lead on the second place position.

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But Jeff Bertuzzi on his stock quad was not too far behind, and was giving it everything he had.

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Mike Kelley, number 249, was running in the third spot.

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Here is Justin Waters who started off this series great, and has just had some problems the past couple race, mainly electrical problems. So we where all hoping that maybe this race they had everything straightened out, and he would be able to finish on the podium.

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Here is Nicholas De Le Grange who was running in the eigth spot of the bat.

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Petchnick was still out front but as your can see Bertuzzi was not far behind, and hoping he could soon make his move.

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And shortly after this Bertuzzi did make his move and moved into the first place position. But he unfortunatley had some problems, and DNF only finishing three laps.

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But it was Mike Kelley who moved into the first place position.

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Justin Waters seemed to be having a good race has he moved into the third place position.

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Nicholas De Le Grange moved into the first place position pushing Mike Kelley into the second spot.

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Shortly after that Justin Waters made his move into the second place position. And we where in high hopes of Waters finishing on the podium.

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But just when thigns where looking good for Waters he had another electrical problem. But in high hopes of finishing the race he walked back to his camp and got another battery, but it didnt seem to help. So he was out for the rest of the race.

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At the end of the race with was Nicholas De Le Grange who grabbed the win.

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Mike Kelley grabbed the second place position.

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And Dax Snow rounded out the podium for the pro am class.

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And here was your Pro Am Podium.

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For the +30 A Class it was Roy Bloodworth who grabbed the holeshot.

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But the number 214 Barry Bennett made the pass around Bloodworth, and was able to take home the win.

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Bloodworth managed to grab the second place position.

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And Jesse Cushman rounded out the top three.

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This was the first round that they where spliting up the womens B/C class so it was interesting to see how they where running things.

But we are sure glad to see that there are enough women out here that they have to split it up.

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Here is Christy McGuffin who is racing with a cast. She broke her thumb a few weeks ago at a local motorcross race. But she is a very dedicated rider, or as I told her, simply crazy.

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Here is Debbie Bloodworth, who has two kids and a husband that race. And they where finally able to talk her into racing. Besides gettings tuck *a few times* she had a blast and cant wait to get back out there, in hopes of beating her husband.

Infact we thought she was giving us a thumbs up in this picture but after the race she explained that she was trying to tell us that her thumb hurt, guess she doesn't exactly have the endurance part down yet.

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But it was Dawn Wynne who grabbed the win for the Womens B class.

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Stacey Sas grabbed the second place position.

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And Danielle Corbin rounded out the top three.

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We look forward to seeing everyone at the next round September 10th and 11th in Utah.

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nice pics and coverage!

[CannondaleRider]

Thanks for the write ups.

You know whats the coolest about them though?

Just in the classes you covered, there are two Team Money$hot riders on the podium :D

Mike Kelley #249, and Dawn Wynne #32