They seemed pretty quick, Lawson took first place in moto #1 on his machine and he had a very good lead going, but the interesting story came on moto #2...
The rain hit hard and the track was a muddy mess. Nearly every can-am out on the field started smoking immensely, and all of them smelled like burning anti-freeze when they drove by. Now obviously the conditions played into this... plugged radiators with the mud and the constant wheel spinning without as much forward movement, but the can-ams were the only quads smoking out there. I think I saw one Honda slightly smoking, but every single pro can-am was smoking bad. At one point a can-am rider stalled on the last lap after making contact with another rider. He tried restarting which took about 15 seconds and when it fired up blue smoke poured out of the exhaust.
Is this something that is common among the can-ams? They looked rather impressive on the track, other than these problems. I know the conditions aided in this, but they were the only quads out there smoking like this. They all finished the race, but they were all smoking like this by about the half way point. Any thoughts?