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Waters Wins at
Pismo; Takes Lead as WORCS Chase Winds Down
Justin Waters closes in on a record three ATV
titles
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Justin
Waters |
Toutle, WA (10/26/2007)- Coming
into the World Offroad Championship Racing's Round
9 last weekend at Oceano Dunes, Justin Waters needed
a nearly-perfect weekend to keep his championship
hopes alive for at least one of the classes he competes
in. With a win in Open A, fourth place in Production
A and a remarkable come-back ride in ProAm final
on Sunday - winning after an early crash and tire
change put him more than seven minutes down - he
dominated the amateur headlines for the weekend.
Waters had been training hard and tuning his
2007 Yamaha YFZ450 for extremely rough conditions,
so he felt well-prepared.
"Although the course did end up being really
rough, I don't think it ended up as bad as last
year. If you were willing to jump outside of the
normal lines you could still find something that
was a little smoother. On the parade lap [of Sunday's
ProAm Main] I took my time and looked where new
smoother lines were going to develop. Most of
the other Pro-Am riders weren't venturing out
to those smooth lines which gave me an advantage."
"My Fox Shox gave me a whole new level of
adjustability that isn't available on other shocks.
I was able to more finely-tune them to fit my
riding style and the brutal conditions. It was
easy over the weekend to make a quick change to
adjust for the ever-changing conditions."
All pieces of the suspension equation had to
come together and hold up, to put Waters on the
podium at an event full of other riders' DNFs.
"The Epic A-arms have held up all season
without a single failure. I knew that I could
trust they would last until the end at Pismo too."
With one round left in the season, Waters goes
forward with the ProAm points lead, and a realistic
shot at a record three titles in WORCS for this
season. He's trying to focus on it as just one
more race in the series though.
"No matter what I have to do to clinch the
titles, I'm just going to go in and do my best
in all three races. I'm going to keep my intense
training up, and hope I get a little more luck."
About Justin Waters:
racing to a championship with Yamaha Factory Racing,
Kenda Tires, ARC Racing, LRD Performance, Epic
Racing Products, Maier USA, Fox Racing Shox, Precision
Racing Products, Rekluse, Scott USA, Fasst Co,
Webcams, DP Brakes, DWT, Regina Chain, GoForIt
Graphics, Ricky Stator, Powermadd and Team Industries.
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