VOL. 50 ISSUE 38 SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
Mike Brown (3) leads the way at the
start of the Pro feature.
rather tricky combinations required quite a bit of risk-taking
from the riders. The few who
broke the 40-second barrier
were those who were hitting the
matrix at speed and clearing
it in its entirety, sending them
straight into a tractor-tire double,
and then over the pool.
"Coming out of that corner
and hitting that matrix was pretty
sketchy, I have to say," Blazusiak
said. "EnduroCross tracks are
never easy. Clearing that matrix
12 laps every single lap wide
open… you gotta be super confident in yourself and in the bike
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Briefly...
vival because I had already exerted
myself picking my bike up trying to
get myself back together. Then my
brake pedal bent 90 (degrees) a
couple laps later and it was completely sticking out next to my footpeg so I was grabbing that for a lap
which made me lose a position and
I had to slow down to kick it back
– like stop, get off, kick it, then get
going. In the tunnel that's what I
did. It was just a snowball effect."
The Ontario EnduroCross brought
Destry Abbott's family out in force,
with Abbott not only racing the
night program but helping his son,
Cooper, try his hand at racing EX
in the morning. Destry's daughter,
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own from Webb, who closed the
gap and looked ready to challenge Brown for second, but
Webb couldn't match Brown and
Blazusiak in some of the track's
risky sections.
The track was what riders
called fast but tricky. Lap times
crept just below the 40-second
mark, making it one of the quickest courses on record, but some
In an unprecedented stroke of chance, there was a three-way tie for the
top spot during the afternoon hot laps. Taddy Blazusiak, Colton Haaker
and Taylor Robert all stopped the clock at a scorching 38.9 seconds. If
tenths of a second can't do the job, the only answer, of course, is to break
it down to hundredths, or even thousandths of a second to decide the
winner. After splitting the hairs, Monster Energy Kawasaki's Taylor Robert
ended up on top followed by Haaker and Blazusiak.
