| WORCS
ATV Series
Round #8
Bull Hollow Raceway
September 9th - 10th, 2006
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By:
Brittany Bloodworth |
Monticello, UT- It was time, once again
for the ATV racers to pack up and head to another exciting
destination on the WORCS schedule. This week it would
Monticello, UT for the eighth round of the series, and
with only one round of racing remaining on the schedule
the race for the championship was heating up in many of
the classes.
Unfortunately, racers were greeted to yet another mudfest
with it raining on Thursday and Friday, which turned
the track into a muddy mess, but by Saturday morning
the rain briefly stopped, but the clouds remained. The
damage was already done from the drenching rains, which
forced the Youth races to the postponed because the
track was impassible for the little machines. To add
insult to injury, shortly after Noon, it began to drizzle
and then came to the hail, which sent many running for
shelter. It would be short lived, but it just added
to the Chaos. The rain held out for the remainder of
the day, but the skies thickened once again Saturday
night and it poured through the night into early Sunday
morning, which set the stage for a true Mud fest for
the Pro Main.
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Josh
Frederick |
The starting area was sloppy mess, and as the Pros
headed to the line the skies looked as if it could rain
again any moment. As for the track, the first corner
strategy was more about getting through it without getting
stuck than grabbing the Holeshot. The majority of the
Pros lined up on the outside in hopes of avoiding some
of the already churned up mud, but Robbie Mitchell picked
the inside line and when the gate dropped, he pinned
the throttle, spraying mud high into the air, and launched
down the straight away to the $200 Hiper Wheel Holeshot
Award with the rest of the class eating his roost.
By the end of the first lap, Josh Frederick would take
over the lead closely followed by Doug Eichner and Robbie
Mitchell, but Frederick’s lead would be short
lived when he was forced to pit with a flat tire, which
allowed Eichner to take over the lead. By the time Frederick
replaced his tire, he dropped back to seventh place,
but he wasn’t out of it yet as he dropped the
hammer and began to charge his way back through the
pack and recording the fastest lap-time of the race
(10:46) in the process. Just as Frederick was gaining
some momentum on Eichner in the lead, the unthinkable
happened, another flat tire, which forced yet another
extended pit stop. Frederick wasn’t the only rider
experience problems as the mud began to take its toll
on many of the ATVs, and Levi Marana chances a repeat
Podium appearance ended when his quad overheated from
the mud, which sidelined him for the remainder of the
race.
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Josh
Frederick leads Doug Eichner |
Meanwhile, Eichner remained in control of the lead and
was well on his way to wrapping up the 2006 WORCS Championship
with Robbie Mitchell continuing to run strong in second
with Brandon Brown passing Shafe to take over the third
spot. Incredibly, several laps later, Josh Frederick charged
his way back up to fourth and was knocking on the grab
bar of Brandon Brown. Before long, Frederick moved past
Brown and into third, but he was still two minutes behind
Eichner in the lead.
White flag lap, and the energy was building under the
Duncan canopy as Frederick amazingly closed the gap to
only 30 seconds on Eichner in the lead with Mitchell squeezed
in between running in second. There simply wasn’t
enough time for Frederick to close the gap, and Eichner
secured his fifth win of the season the 2006 WORCS Pro
ATV Championship with a 31 point lead over Josh Frederick.
Robbie Mitchell held onto the second spot with Frederick
rounding out the Podium..
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Frederick,
Eichner & Mitchell on the podium |
Once again, Eichner was able to overcome adversity
and claim yet another National Title to add to his impressive
collection. At the beginning of the season, it appeared
as if it was going to be Frederick’s year after
Eichner experienced some early season gremlins, but
the Duncan crew got it together, and ran an amazing
second half of the season. CONGRATULATIONS DOUG!!!!!!
The final round of the season will be held at Pismo
Beach in California for an exciting conclusion of the
series with the bikes and ATVs racing side by side on
the beach with the end of year banquet following the
racing, so regardless if you are racing, you don’t
won’t be miss the season finale in sunny California.
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