IN
THE
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Argubright noted. "When I got
to pit 14 (the final one), the last
30 miles the Monarch team had
actually caught back up to us
because I had no front tire. It
was kind of dumb on my part to
not change it.
"I knew the Monarch team
had started four minutes in front
of us. Even if I wasn't the first
bike [to the finish], I just had
to be somewhat close. And in
the process, I slid out less than
five miles from the finish [in one
of the rockiest sections of the
course]…and I freaking ground
my arm down and they ended up
putting in five inner stitches and
five outer stitches [in the result-
ing hole]."
After a rear-wheel swap at pit
nine, Wallis got back on behind
both the Argubright/Eddy and
Brown/Esposito machines,
passing Brown on his Bremen
Racing/Precision Concepts/
O'Neal Racing-backed CRF450X
for second before too long.
"By the time [Justin] got it
back to Ross, Jacob was hav-
ing some problems with his
bike and we made up some
time with them—about 30 sec-
onds—and Argubright slid out
on his arm [a few miles from the
finish] and Ross slid out, too,
coming over Como back into
Dayton. Ross was able to make
the pass coming down Como to
finish physically first, but they
still got us on time.
"It was a super-close Vegas-to-
Reno and super-fun."
More important, though, was it
sealed the series championship
for the Cooper Motorsports 747
squad with its first V-R podium,
having compiled a record of
2-5-1-2.
"I thought we'd have it a little
easier, but Shane was just on
it—so was the Monarch team,"
Argubright exclaimed. "At one
point, I was like, 'There's no way
we're going to do it,' when Shane
was, like, seven minutes in front
of us [on adjusted time]."
Mark Kariya
Kevin Daniels soloed to
win Ironman Expert by
nearly half an hour with
his unofficial time of
10:47:59.7, giving him
27th overall among all
bikes and quads.
