12 Hours of ATV America - Race Report

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Team #101 Mikes Cycle World Honda/ Duncan Racing Internation(Brad Page, Andris Lagzdins, and Justin Short) were running strong in 5th Place.

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#310 Bryan Baker already had #4 Bill Ballance on his rear bumper after Bill started back near the end of the pack. In only a couple of miles of woods, he managed to pass easily 60 riders, which is totally incredible in my book. I guess this shows why he has won 5 Championships

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Several laps later, Pat Brown had passed both #1 East Coast ATV and #28 Walsh Race Craft to take over the lead in the 2nd Session, but he remained a few laps down in the Overall.

During his sprint to the front, Pat Brown put in the fastest lap time of the day with a 12:26 lap time, which was just over six seconds faster than Chris Borich's 12:32 recorded also in the 2nd session.

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Josh Creamer show his talent as he doubled through the whoops with ease.

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John Natalie Jr. took over for Chris Borich and used his XC experience to close the gap on Walsh Race Craft.

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#4 Maxxis Tires Team sent out Johnny Gallagher to put in a few laps and stay in reach of the #1 East Coast ATV.

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#88 JB Racing's, Chris Jenks, looked good on the 450R as he tried to catch Johnny Gallagher.

Unfortunately, the JB Racing team broke off their foot peg on the MX track, and were forced to pit for lengthy amount of time to hack saw the nerf bars and weld the foot peg to the frame to continue the race. This dropped them a lap down behind East Coast ATV and Maxxis, but they remained in third place in front of team #101 Mikes Cycles.

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Team #53 Team Bling Star(Cody Smith, Larry Heidler, and Darrell Patton) didn't have a great first half, but everything seem to be going well for this California team in the 2nd half as the were 6th Overall, but several laps behind in the combined sessions.

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#19 Hertz Racing, Rob Hertz, stayed focused as he kept his team in the running and were up to 5th Place Overall after both sessions

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#500 Jason Lewis kept his team in the hunt as he was running in 8th for the 2nd Session and a combined 8th Overall from Both Sessions.