IN
THE
WIND
P40
ALL GREEN AT GLEN HELEN
24-HOUR ENDURANCE
A
rare Southern California
storm the night before and
rain during the first half of the
race affected all competitors
(and spectators) at the Glen
Helen 24-hour Endurance Race,
October 13-14, but the Precision
Concepts/Chaparral Motorsports
Kawasaki crew dealt with it best
to dominate from start to finish.
How dominant was the quartet
of Michael del Fante, Clay Hen-
geveld, Justin Seeds and Blayne
Thompson?
Despite a couple of minor
spills requiring parts replace-
ment, they kept a consistently
fast pace while splitting time
aboard their FMF/Maxxis/Fast
House-sponsored KX450 to re-
cord 69 laps during the arduous
24 hours, three laps more than
the next quickest team: Open Ex-
pert winners Jacob Argubright/
Nick Garvin/Brandon Peterson/
Colton Udall/Ian Young on their
AHM/Baja Bound Insurance/Fixe
Hardware-backed CRF450X.
The Open Expert victors were,
in turn, four laps ahead of third
overall, the Over 30 Expert-win-
ning squad of Adam Chapman,
Matt Eddy Jr., Ryan Liebelt, An-
drew Puckett, Justin Schultz and
Rowan Trefz who campaigned
their TBT Racing/Baja Bound
Insurance/IMS YZ450FX.
"Justin [Seeds] started and
got the holeshot; he got out front
early, opened up a little gap and
we've just been maintaining the
gap for the whole 24 hours,"
Thompson said while waiting
for the finish on Sunday morn-
ing. "Conditions yesterday in the
morning when we started were
really, really bad. It started raining
again so it got sloppier, then it
stopped.
"Throughout the night, the
track got perfect and right now,
everybody's lap times have
dropped—the track's perfect right
now!"
Besides the speedy riding,
credit for the win must be shared
with the maintenance strategy the
team followed with frequent pres-
sure washing in the pits to clear
mud from the radiators and to
Clay Hengeveld (shown),
Michael del Fante,
Justin Seeds and Blayne
Thompson proved to
be an unbeatable team,
Precision Concepts
getting the win for the
second year in a row.
