SLR Honda Wins Glen Helen 10-Hour
S
lam Life Racing (SLR) Honda
team owner Mark Samuels
may have missed the race, but
the team made its presence em-
phatically known as it dominated
the 3 Bros. 10-hour Endurance
Race, round two of the three-
race 3 Bros. Endurance Race
Series at Glen Helen Raceway
Park, August 8-9.
But SLR Honda rider Trevor
Stewart joked, "Honestly, it's kind
of a mean way to not get an invite
to his wedding—he makes you
go race for 10 hours—so thanks,
boss!"
Hurt feelings aside, Stewart
and teammates Cole Martinez
and Justin Morgan put the hurt to
the 73 other teams (reportedly a
record turnout) at the race which
started at 4:00 P.M. Saturday
afternoon and finished at 2:00
A.M. Sunday morning. Shorter
laps than some editions of the in-
creasingly popular series at about
8.5 miles, the course still offered
its usual mix of terrain, including
some vicious silt beds as well as
plenty of high-speed two-track,
rocks, hills and some new single-
track. Much of the fire road on
the western ridges was bypassed
as officials thought it would be
too dangerous in light of dust and
rain ruts.
The SLR Honda trio completed
42 laps—the only team to do so—
with the Champion Adventures
Honda squad of Derek Ausser-
bauer, Nic Garvin and Colton
Udall claiming second with 41
laps, 16 minutes and 27.88
seconds behind. 3 Bros. KTM's
Thomas Dunn, Shane Logan and
Nick Stover ended up third, also
at 41 laps.
Stewart started out, quickly
grabbing the lead on their Mon-
ster Energy/Skechers/Lava
Propane-backed CRF450X,
though he committed the team's
only real mistake when he got
mixed up and took a wrong turn
into the pits at the beginning of
lap two. That let Josh Mosiman
sneak past, and he led briefly on
IN
THE
WIND
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Trevor Stewart got the
SLR Honda team out front
early with teammates
Cole Martinez and Justin
Morgan doing their part
to keep them pulling away
from the field to win the
biggest 10-hour yet.
