WIND
IN THE
P44
It's not often you see a 500-
plus mile, nearly nine-hour-long
race come down to minutes and
seconds, but the two Pro teams
at the front did exactly that. Just
a few miles from the finish line,
the gap had shrunk to about
one mile, or 60 seconds at BITD
speeds, with the Honda team
closing in. An unpredicted rain
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storm over the mountains sur-
rounding the finish saw a deluge
of rain flood the rocky mountain
roads, leaving slick rock and
mud bogs as additional obsta
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cles for the racers to overcome.
Unfortunately for the N1 team,
a brief mishap with a mudhole
saw them lose valuable time to
the leaders, giving the Cooper
Motorsports team some breath
-
ing room to cross the finish line
in 8:46:42, one minute and six
seconds ahead of the Honda
team on adjusted time. However,
some infractions during the
race forced a time penalty on
the Cooper Motorsports squad,
relegating them back to second
overall on the day behind the
Hintz/Hunter duo.
While the race at the front
of the pack was a nail-biter,
the battle for the final podium
position was no different. Mike
Baxter's Alpine Signs/Carson
City Motorsports team fought
to the end with Jesse Canepa's
Primo Racing team, with Baxter's
trio topping Canepa's team by
less than a minute, finishing in
9:19:18.
Other notable finishers in
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clude fifth overall and 30-Plus
Pro winner Gregory Pheasant/
Willy Heiss, first Ironman Pro
Zach Myers, and the first Expert
team of Kody Moutafidis/Wyatt
Brittner.
Trevor Hunter
Overall
1. Hayden Hintz/
Trevor Hunter (Hon)
2. Danny Cooper/Clayton Roberts/
Shane Logan (GG)
3. Mike Baxter/Austin Serpa/
JT Baker (Hon)
4. Jesse Canepa/Ryan Marshall/
Connor Eddy (GG)
5. Gregory Pheasant/
Willy Heiss (Hus)
Zach Myers was the
first Pro Ironman rider.
The Kody Moutafidis/
Wyatt Brittner team won
the Expert division.
