Not sure if you want to here this or not. Took off and was third into the woods, Penland, someone, Me, and another Bomb Behind. Started in through the woods and was getting slammed by the Bomb behind me, he hit me at least 5 times in the first two miles of the course, the last time he hit me almost knocked me off of the quad. I was just about ready to stop and turn around to tell him a few choice words when we hit a bottleneck, I quickly went around #2 and got right behind Penland, we took off through the woods and I am not even sure where it happened but I got around him. I held the throttle open and didn't see him for the rest of the race. We broke into the field on the backside of the start and I glanced behind me to see Kevin T., which is a very good rider, very equal to myself. I was on the uphill whooped out section of the field hammering down when out of nowhere I hit the biggest bump of my life and caught myself sailing through the air, without my quad, I hit the ground hard on my left side and my quad rolled to a stop. Kevin yelled at me to see if I was alright and I waved him on. I jumped up immediately and was back on rolling in no time. within minutes I was back on him. At the finish I was on his tail going into lap 2. We didn't hit any bottlenecks at all the 2nd lap, There was a hill climb after you crossed a road and he took the middle line, I went left. I went by him at the top grazing his front end. Off we go and running hard down over the hill into the giant water mud holes. I submerge into the middle of the first one and it is over my hood, i scream out of that one and land halfway into the second, Kevin must have seeked higher ground, because when I entered the third one here he came on a mission. he drenched himself in the process. We tore out of there and up over the muddy hill weaving through all of the stuck and rolled over sport quads. Out into my favorite field again right on his bumper and I make a right turn in the corner and my quad goes straight. My heart sank because I just put on heavy duty tie rods and ends last week and thought I broke one. I looked and the nut had come off on the right side, yep, no cotter pin. Now my head is spinning wondering if I had screwed up. i shoved the end back in the housing and drove all the way into the finish without a nut on it, went to my pit after scanning, put a new nut on and took off from the finish line again. I was on a mission on the last lap beacuse I didn't know were Penalnd and Swift were at. I caught a couple of racers in my class right away but not the ones I needed. I was on the tail of a rincon on the last few miles of the track and that is when Stack was behind me. he evidentually got hung up , because when we got out into the field Doug H. passed me, sorry for the holdup. I kept pushing as close as I could on this rincon through the last section of the woods because I needed that position but I wasn't making any ground because the guy could really ride it well. We came up on the final few turns before we broke out into the field and he rolled it on its side and I blew by. When I broke into the field I looked down and saw Penland about 3 turns away and not a dam thing I could do about it. 4th Place but it could have been worse maybe a DNF and the end to a season. But here is the catch that is tearing me up, like any other racer out there, I go over my machine before every race with a fine tooth comb. My cotter pins were all in and all the same size. After I got back to my pit, my crew chief Caleb Bailey, turned my front wheel the other direction and spun off the nut on the left side as well. Some of you may get what I am saying and some may not, so here it is. I don't, and you don't miss putting in cotter pins, this is something that we just don't do, and I know that I did not!!!!! One maybe, but two, come on!!! My quad sat out all day on Friday while I walked the course, but let me tell you, no more, my season is on the line and also more than that my life. I am convinced that someone tampered with my equipment on Friday afternoon. This isn't the first time someone's quad has been tampered with this year either. I know of one that had his oil drained over night, Ha, Ha!!! I don't play these games, beat me fair and square, don't cheat. I have no explanation why this was done or even why I was rammed repeatedly by a Bombardier in the first lap, but it was pure BS. I am just like all of you out there, I work for a living, take care of my family first and love the sport of racing, but when you tamper with a man's equipment to take him out, that makes you a coward. I didn't even know I had enemies out there, but I guess I do. I was total BS what happened at St. C to me and I will be prepared for it in Indiana. I am going to bring it and let me say this to whover is messing around trying to take me out, I have alot more friends than enemies out there and they will not let anything happen to me . Thanks to all of you who support me and the other Kawie riders , I really appreciate it. Let's get em in Indiana. I want the last laugh!!!!!
My other beef was that someone rammed my brother off of the course and did $2, 073.00 damage to my 650 prairie. The frame is destroyed, knocked out the front drive shaft, broke a rim, bent steering stem, broke computer mount, all plastic torn and destroyed, front end smashed into radiator, and he is off work now. All for a quick pass. C'Mon guys, can't we all get along!!!!
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