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Matt Smiley's crew raced over to find out what happened, and they discovered the key switch was in the off position from a rock hitting it from the roost of William Yokley rounding the corner.
Matt turned the key on and was back in the race in at the back of the pack.
With less than 10 seconds before the Pro Am class was released off the line, Jeremy was able to get his 450R started and took off in last place almost one minute behind.
By the beginning of the 2nd lap, Bill Ballance had develop a five second lead over William Yokley.
In this photo, you can see one of the reasons why Bill Ballance is so fast. Notice how he avoids the rocks by riding through the less rocky leaves, but stays within the limits of the course. Smart line decisions like this one saves him valuable seconds throughout the race over his competitors.
William Yokley emerged through the trees and rocks in 2nd Place with #3 Chris Borich right behind after he passed Chris Jenks in the background back in 4th place.
#16 Santo Derisi worked his way up to 5th place by the end of the 1st lap and remained in 5th chasing after Chris Jenks.
Check out the size of the rocks the riders had to ride over and around as they went through this section of the course:eek:
#6 Bryan Cook was off too a good start in 6th place as he started his climb up the rocky hill, but he made the critical mistake of picking a bad line which left him stuck on a rock.
I jumped onto the track and help him get off the rock, and he made another attempt at climbing over the rocks in front of him with no success, so I pulled him helped once again with no success, so he decided to turn his YFZ around and try a totally different line, which costed him valuable time.
While, Bryan Cook was stuck on the rocks, #14 Andy Lagzdins was able to come through and make the easy pass and move up to 6th place on his 450R.
#9 Brandon Ballance and #23 Bryan Baker were the next riders to capitalize on Cook's mistake as Baker goes up and around Bryan Cook as he get his YFZ turned around.
Charging from the back of the pack, #4 Matt Smiley was up to 11th at the end of lap one, and only a few miles into lap two, he passed Thomas Barrett and moved up to 9th place after passing Bryan Cook.
10th - 12th place (Thomas Barrett, Todd Knippenberg, and Micheal Houston) came though like a freight train back to back behind Matt Smiley.