WORCS ATV Series
Round #7 - Honey
Lake
Milford,
California
September 26-28, 2008
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WORCS Racing Pro ATV
Race Report - Continued
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The
WORCS Pro Rookie, Beau Baron, continues
to impress as he charged his way from behind
to claim the 4th spot & Beau is now
only 3 points behind Dustin Nelson in the
points race for the 2nd Spot |
Meanwhile, Beau Baron, who is currently sitting
only three points behind Nelson in the points chase,
got off to a mid pack start and was working feverishly
to get to the front. “I came off the line
in 8th place and had worked up to 6th, but then
I got stuck behind some of the Pro-am class riders
who had gone the wrong way on the track. They must
have thought we were in the same class because they
were trying to race me and wouldn’t let me
by and I could see Eichner just in front of them
and he was starting to pull away,” said Baron.
The wrong-way Pro-am riders ended up getting black-flagged
and Baron was able to resume his pursuit of Doug
Eichner. “I finally caught up to Eichner,
but he is really tough to pass. It took two laps
of me giving it everything I had to get around him,”
said Beau. The number 549 Suzuki was finally able
to pass Eichner to take over 4th place in the sixth
lap.
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Again, Doug Eichner & Robbie Mitchell
battled for the 5th spot, and the veteran,
Eichner, was able to secure the spot as
he maintains a top 5 spot in the points
race with just a 3 point margin over Mitchell
heading to the final round |
Honda's
Mike Cafro has been battling through injuries
most of the season, which have slowed down
and kept him out of the top 10, since round
1, but a 7th place finish has gave Cafro
a boost in points, and he is now just 6
points out of a top 10 finish |
After lap seven, the order of the top six did
not change for the remainder of the race. Motoworks’
Josh Frederick was first to reach the checkered
flag with a time of 01:36:01, which was 2 minutes
faster than his teammate Brandon Smith who took
second. With Josh taking the win, it also wrapped
up the 2008 Pro Championship for him. “Everything
just went really well for me this weekend,”
Josh said. “The bike was running perfectly
and I got a great start. It really makes it easy
when the bike is running so well.”
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Josh
Frederick takes the checkered flag for his
2nd straight win, and 5th of the season
to wrap-up his 2nd Straight WORCS Pro ATV
Championship |
Now that he has won his second consecutive championship,
Josh admits that it is a big weight off of his
shoulders. “It takes a lot of stress off
of me now, and I can go out there at the final
round and just have fun. I still want to win it,
but I also want to have fun while I’m out
there,” he stated.
Dustin Nelson crossed the finish line in third
with Beau Baron only 40 seconds behind him. “Josh
may have wrapped up the championship, but Beau
and I are really close in points, so we kind of
have our own little battle going on out there
so the last round is going to be pretty interesting
for us,” said Nelson who has 124 points.
“When I first started racing quads this
year, I thought I would do pretty good, but I
had no idea I would make it into the top three.
Now my expectations have gotten a little higher
and I’m really going to do my best out there
at the last round,” said Baron who crossed
the finish line in 4th place and currently holds
third in the points race with 121 points.
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Pro ATV
Podium (left to right)
Dustin Nelson, Josh Frederick, Brandon
Smith
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Motoworks,
Big John Widdle, celebrates along wit the
rest of the team after Josh wrapped up the
championship |
The battle for 4th in the points race will be
interesting as well with Mike Machado, Polaris’s
Doug Eichner, DAT’s/Kawasaki’s Robbie
Mitchell, and Motowork’s Brandon Smith,
all within 11 points of each other, just about
anything can happen, especially if Smith is able
to take the podium again, there could be quite
an upset in the top five.
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