WORCS-round 4-Clay Peak MX Park Race Coverage

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Round 4 was held in Payette Idaho at Clay Peak MX Park . Clay Peak was the kick off to the first "Quads only" WORCS and continues to be one of the track favorites in the series.

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The week end started out warm and sunny for Friday Tech inspection and practice.
The lines on Friday seemed like they would never end as 557 entries made way to Tech inspection in hopes of passing the 99DB that was strickly enforced for the 2007 season.

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The track consists of several elavation changes,sand trails, wide open sections ,hillclimbs and an MX section.

The MX section was changed last minute so alot of the jumps were not the typical you would see .

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The entire course would be come completly rutted and whooped out by the end of the wk ends racing.

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Parker Taylor from Eatonville Wash. decides to do a little freestyle on the Friday afternoon practice .:D

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With a new and soft cut track came lots of whooped out sections and massive holes. The dirt bikes raced the week end before so it would account to some serious work outs for all the riders and there quads,especially in the trail sections.

There was alot of this seen threwout the week end.

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Pro riders also took advantage of there own practice time .
Everyone was buzzing to see Doug Eichner on his new Factory ride-the KTM 525.
Watch for an upcoming interview with Doug . This would be his 1st wk end racing the new Polaris Outlaw.

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Saturdays racing kicks off right on time as always with WORCS with the unclassifieds.

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The 1st lap would be the lap you could tell who each rider was for many.
In spite of nice weather for Friday and Saturday, the track was very muddy due to overwatering so riders would soon be hard to recognize .

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several minis struggled up the hill that was ran this year due to muddy conditons making it very hard for the riders to clear the top to enter the trail sections.
As you can see, the rider to theleft has decided he has had enough and decides hes not sticking around..

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And his quad rolls to the bottom of the hillside barely missing the rider to the right of him :eek:

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First class to race after the unclassifieds was the Production classes.
Racers are off !!

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#3 Brandon Brown takes the holeshot and is 1st into the MX section.

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Brandon has had a tough few rounds this season so his Pro production race for this round was off to a good start!

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Doug Eichner hot on his path!

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Epic rider Josh Frederick in 3rd .

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30 seconds between gates, Production A riders are off!
# 873 Kevin Kurtz would get the holeshot .

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Kurtz would hold the lead for the first several laps

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2nd place rider was #427 Jeremy Headlee based out of Hisperia Calf.

Jeremy was off to a great start in the Production A class, but misfortune for him this wk end as he was injured with a collision with another Prod. A rider Justin Waters and broke his leg and had to undergo surgery.


We wish Jeremy a speedy recovery.

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Team Money$hot rider #249 Mike Kelley from Edgewood Wa. in 3rd.

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Production B rider #3064 from Star, Idaho Jeremy Meador grabs the holeshot.

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Jeremy would hold 1st place for the 1st lap with #116 Keith Johnson holding a tight 2nd

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#159 Dale Mininger from Buckley Wa. in third.

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In the stock A class, Jeff Burtuzzi from Washington Utah holds an impressive race with a solid 1st place threwout his entire race qualifying him for the solid spot in the Pro am main race on Sunday.

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# 150 Gibert Flores would also hold a solid 2nd place finish in the Stock A class.

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#78 Daniel Winiecki took 3rd.

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In the stock B class,there was only 2 entries .
# 213 Chris Shannon would take home the win .

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Troubles for Doug Eichner after lap two after having some overheating issues. This was atough break for Doug as he gained the lead shortly after meeting the trail section.

Doug would again race later in the day for the Open Pro and Pro main on Sunday.

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Brandon Brown would now lead the Pro Production for one lap until lap 4-Dustin Terry would take the lead for 1st place and would go on to win the Pro Production.

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Third place goes out to # 167 Mike Machado from Denair,Calf. who gained the 3rd place position in lap 4 moving up from 5th.

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Eichner was not the only Pro with a rough start for round 4.
Frederick would also end the Pro Production with a DNF .
Would either of these riders go on to to finish in the Pro main on Sunday????

Check out the homepage for a race report for the Pros race .

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The battle was on in the Production A class for 1st and 2nd place

#1p Andrew Lattimar held the fastest lap time in lap two and held it for the 1st half of the race.

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#1326 Jade Mccoy from Kennewick Wa. gets out front in lap 1 on her Suzuki.

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#1w Lynn Prosser in 2nd. Lynn would take the lead for one lap

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But it would be #130 Julie Russell who would take the lead and carry it to the checker with a 14 second gap against Prosser.

Julie is making a great start to the season after an injury that set her back last season.

Watch for Interviews soon with these ladies at an upcoming round.

Julie gets out front for the 1st lap and also has the fastest lap time in lap 2.

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#902 Christy McGuffin moves up from the 5th position to 3rd.

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Race 6 of the day was the Open Pro ,Open A and B class.
12 Pros were one the line and an impressive 24 in the Open A!:cool:


Pro rider #10 Levi Marana was off to a great start in Open Pro and takes the lead !
In lap 5 Marana falls back one postion finishing up with a 2nd place finish.

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Temmecula Motorsports Pro rider Mike Cafro would fall back from the 2nd place to 3rd for the Open Pro.

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But it would be Epic Pro rider Jeremy Schell that would make an impressive gain the in Open Pro class battling his way from the #7 position all the way to the top winning the Open Pro race
Nice job Jeremy!:macho

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Eichner had yet another overheating issue and had to pull out of the race .Duncan and Factory Polaris was on hand to troubleshoot the issue and had him back on track for the Pro main sunday race .

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In the women Class 10 women are on the line and out front of the pack would be #849 Jennifer Williams from Thousand Oaks Calf.

Jennifer lead a solid race threwout the entire race with just shy of a minute gap between her and 2nd place rider # 236 Sadie Bender from Pasco,Wash.

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Sunday would take all the riders by surpise and mother nature had a change in plans for Easter Sunday.
RAIN and lots of it .
This would be a repeat for the Sunday racers that round 2 in racetown395 had and would have to endure severe muddy conditions once again.

For the life of me I could not even begin to guess who each rider was after the first turn :p so Ill be just posting a few pics randomly of the riders and there finishes in the open C,Prod C,12-15cc open,200/300cc class.Please feel free to post your shots from the gallery at theend of the coverage.

#715 Travis Hanes held 1st place for one lap before his DNF.

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#229 Johnny Skagen from North Bend Wash. would then take over the lead and finish with 1st on the poduim.
Skagen also had the fastest lap time in lap 2.

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#187 Ross Dielessen makes a mad dash for the poduim moving up from the 5th place slot to 2nd in Production C.

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3rd place goes out to #204 Nathan Fowler in the Production C class.

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Open C rider winner would go out to #517 Blane Vadasy from Henderson Nevada.

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In the sport 15-29 A Gilbert Flores takes a solid 1st place .

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I believe this is Vet 30+A rider winner Roy Bloodworth. Roy is also Atvriders.com photojornalist for the WORCS and the ITP quad cross series as well and offers track side support for Yamaha riders at each of he WORCS rounds.

Roy , let me know if this is you FOR SURE :o :p lol
Roy took home the 1st place finish .

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Final recap of the racing action was the Rhino race.
This round would have a mix of 8 Rhinos and Ridge runners.

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#12 Mark Holtz lead the pack

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# 163 Danielle Corbin moves up from the 5th to 2nd in lap three.

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# 83 Cody Mitchell take home the 3rd place finish in the Rhino race.

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In the Buggie/650 class # 2547 Ben Blaster from Boise, Idaho held the 1st place position for the entire race .

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#2546 Dan Denny of Nampa,Idaho takes 2nd.

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3rd goes out to #2543 Hans Shanks who decided that an acrobat stunt in the MX section was more of a crowd pleaser than a 1st place poduim:p :D

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This concludes the recap and coverage of round 4 .
Youth will be covered in a separate section .

Atvriders will continue to bring you Coverage, Interviews with the amatuer riders as well as some of the Pros at each event as well as holeshot videos and Pro main vidoe Coverage.

Video Coverage should be up in a few days.

Next round will be a new and exciting track for most everyone for Round 5-Zacastation located in Los Olivos,Calf.

we will see you in May!

[Rooprick]

Great Job Tina....Very good coverage...:)

[CrackerboyLV]

Thanks for the write up. I always enjoy watching Ross getting roosted. See you next month!

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Here's a shot of Jeff Stambaugh

Photos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetmulcahy/collections/72157600066145987/)

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Originally posted by CrackerboyLV
Thanks for the write up. I always enjoy watching Ross getting roosted. See you next month!

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Here's a shot of Jeff Stambaugh

Was that when he broke down?:eek2:
nice shot!
Thanks Rooprick.:)

[Red Riding Hood]

Great re-cap Tina!!! Thanks again for the awesome pictures, we will be ordering some from ya :D

Jeff broke a tie-rod on that landing :eek:

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Red just reminded me...!
Check out the homepage as well as the photo Gallery

Photo Gallery link and Pro race report (http://www.atvriders.com/atvracing/worcsatvracing200704claypeaksmx.html)

The Admin. will be out of town this wk end with his own race,so give me a few days and hopefully we will have a link for both Round 4 and 5 this time .

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GREAT pics!!! i love the one of me all clean in the unclassafied!!!
REALLY REALLY GOOD JOB!:D :D

[CannondaleRider]

Nice coverage, all around.

I just read the Pro coverage, everything is great, except one thing......Wonderful picture of Timmy in there, but he's number 11...not 10. Levi is number 10. :D

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Originally posted by CannondaleRider
Nice coverage, all around.

I just read the Pro coverage, everything is great, except one thing......Wonderful picture of Timmy in there, but he's number 11...not 10. Levi is number 10. :D
And that would be the Admin.'s OOPS... Not mine:D :o :p LOL
WE all know who's # Timmeh is!:blah: I let Halren know .Thanks for pointing that out ;)

WHEW...!Thats ALOT of classes to Cover:scary:

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Also, did anyone notice the Atvrider Check??
Pepper gave him the wrong months check!:eek: :o
LMAO!

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i did notice that!!!
did he get the one for pismo?!

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Originally posted by Hanes15
i did notice that!!!
did he get the one for pismo?!
I believe so :o lol

[Vtr_Racing]

Great pics and write up...

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Thanks, I appreciate it . There is alot of classes now to recap and its alot more to try and cover than I thought it would be!:scary: :p

Im hoping we get a full wk. end this next round with no mud!:blah:
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[Hanes15]

yeah! i have had enough mud this year at the WORCS races...

hahah

[ThePhantomRider]

Looks like the Epic Team of Josh Frederick and Jeremy Schell is becoming a dominant force in WORCS and even ITP Quadcross to a lesser extent. Not to mention their desert teams are pretty good as well.

TPR

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Anyone who will be planning to race at round 5, please check out worcs website
www.worcsracing.com
there is some issues with racing at zaca that everyone should be aware of and a likelyhood of a track change.

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i heard something about that about a week ago and wasnt sure if it was true... well now i kno lol.....

that kinda stinks... i was looking forward to that place!!!!

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Originally posted by Hanes15
i heard something about that about a week ago and wasnt sure if it was true... well now i kno lol.....

that kinda stinks... i was looking forward to that place!!!! I think everyone was!
its not written in stone just yet, so cross your fingers for the final decision on the 23rd. ;)

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yeAH n its all over a whole 3 DB....
lol:confused: :confused: :confused:

[socalbabe902]

Originally posted by QuadJunkies
Thanks, I appreciate it . There is alot of classes now to recap and its alot more to try and cover than I thought it would be!:scary: :p

Im hoping we get a full wk. end this next round with no mud!:blah:
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THAT WOULD BE CHRiSTY MCGUFFiN :]

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Videos (http://www.atvriders.com/atvracing/worcsatvracing2007.html) are now up!