Piaa Powersports Team Can-Am Michael Swift/Rick Cecco/Cliff Beasley
Competing in the first Heartland 10 hour challenge was a great experence. I would like to thank Andy and his wife, Harlen and Atvriders, Kevin and Gbc and all the other sponsor who helped make this first event as nice as it was.
Our race went well with little to no problems, we got off to a good start with each rider completing 4 laps before pitting. We held a good lead threw out the race, just after dark we lost a belt on one of the bikes which set us back a little. This would be the only problem we would incounter durning the race. We kept our heads down and and made a charge to get back out front, a little while later Polaris had some problems as well which put us back in the front by over 16 minutes. At that point our plan was to finish the race out with any flaws. We crossed the finish line taking first place in the Pro- utility class and ninth over-all.
I would like to thank all who competed in the class, Polaris done an excellent job and I beleve that the new 09 850 is going to be competitive machine next year. Fd racing, thats a great group of guys with alot of skill, is was good to see artic cat back out racing with us and all the other teams who spent alot of time to get things ready go race. Thanks!
We spent alot of time getting ready for this race and we had alot of help. So I would like to thank our sponsors who helped make our team what it was.
Piaa Powersports, Can-Am/BRP, Cyclops Motorsports, ITP, OMF, Tireballs, Rox, Spider, Fasst Co., Tribal Carbon Fiber, IMS, Outerwears, EVS, A/C Racing, HMF and Scott.
Thanks to David Jesse for building our light mounts and brackets.
Thanks to Warnert Racing, a top notch race team. And to Warnerts Racings Nick and Alex for helping us in the pits.
Also to Rick and Cliff for there awesome performance!