Round 6 Titan

The Titan or Titanic as it was refered to by the end of the weekend. When the event was being set up I was told it was a beautiful facility. When we arrived it was a water filled pits and when we left it was a mud hole!

Even GNCC staff knew this one was bad as the race was shortened to 2 hours.

As the race began I knew why it was shortened as the track had nothing left to offer. The mud was slop and I felt like a farm kid tearing through the pasture on a rainy day. 3 laps in my race was slowed down as i found what seemed to be a good line just off the main trail before hitting a barb wire fence and ending up stuck with my bike on top of me. Anothe racer came along and helped me up but by that time top ten was gone and I came home with a 12th place finish.

Round 5 Loretta’s

Coming into round 5 I needed to get back inside the top ten for myself. I knew it was possible but the weather was putting a damper on my attitude.

Rain and plenty of it for round 5! Our pit box was under some deep water when we arrived at the course sunday morning.

When the green flag flew I charged hard to turn one but those factory KTM’s beat me once again. After half a lap I was down to my last tear off on my SCOTT goggles and knew there was plenty of mud to go. But thanks to SCOTT USA for the support I have plenty of goggles and stopped nearly every lap for a fresh set. 2 Hours into the race I lost rear brakes and it was hard to keep pushing but i did as much as possible. On the final lap even the front brakes became slow and not working to full potential. But as I cross the finish my KAWASAKI was still running strong and 10th was on the scoring screen!

Round 4 Big Buck

After the top ten finish I was ready to tackle the next course and get further inside the top ten. That would not be the case!

When the flag flew I rocketed from an outside start spot to sweep around the outside and cross the stripe right behind KTM XC2 points leader Kailub Russell. But those factory guys are fast out of the gate. I drifted back and settled in 10th position for the first few laps. At about the half way point in the race I moved to the edge of the trail about 4 miles into the loop only to clip a large rock or stump and land on my head.

With the bars folded back I had to ease my way around the 14 mile course to the pits.

I charged hard and managed to get back up to 12th position before the finish.