VOL. 48 ISSUE 44 DECEMBER 13, 2011 P141
(Left) David Pearson
wrapped up the 2011
BITD Championship
after soloing to a
second-place finish at
the Henderson 250.
(Below) Jason Trubey
helped his team take
the Over-30 Expertclass win.
day and for the year with a time of
2:27:44.
With three races to run consecutively throughout the day,
promoter Casey Folks wasted no
time in getting the bikes, ATVs
and UTVs off the line starting at a
dark, chilly 6:15 A.M., two every
30 seconds.
Esposito led the parade into
the desert, though he found the
no-pre-run course a bit sketchy
in the dark since he didn't have
a headlight on the Hoosier Precision Machining/Precision Concepts/KLeN
Laundry-backed
KX450F. Nonetheless, he managed to stay in front and hand the
bike over to Bell, who had more
daylight to work with but still had
to deal with an unfamiliar course
his first time out.
"I didn't expect it to be so wide
open!" he said. "I must've been
throttle to the stop 80 percent of
the course. It was crazy. It was
Briefly...
Alex Kortepeter not only took his
first win of the season, the Ironman Expert victor finished a commendable sixth bike overall on his
Countrywide Estate Planning/
NCY/Scott USA CRF450X, completing the three laps in 2:40:43.
Clint LaRue was just 1:19 behind
in second with Sam Longson
third, 1:10 behind LaRue. Longson earned the Ironman Expert
number one plate, winning twice
during the season.
Next year's BITD season kicks
off in five weeks with the THR Motorsports Parker 250 in Parker,
Arizona, on January 7. For bikes,
the series will feature five races,
down from six this year. (Truck and
buggy classes have six events, including a new one - the General
Tire Mint 400 classic, which BITD
recently acquired.)
Despite the speedy course (or
perhaps due to it), the finisher ratio was better than usual. Of the
68 teams to leave the start, only
five DNFed.
Purvines Racing earned three
class championships (Open Pro
with David Pearson/Carl Maassberg, Over 30 Pro with David
Fry/Jason Trubey and Over-40
Pro with Scott Glimp) in its first
year. Next year, the squad will field
Kawasakis, once again going after BITD titles as well as AMA National Hare & Hound. Look for Jacob Argubright to be a Purvines
Racing rider, team owner Ron
Purvines promises.
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