VOL. 50 ISSUE 44 NOVEMBER 5, 2013
The 30+ Pros
get started in
moto two. Travis
Preston (11) ended
up the big winner.
PREVAILS
TRAVIS PRESTON STARS AT GLEN HELEN
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STORY BY CARLY RAUBA
PHOTOGRAPHY BY NATE AND
CARLY RAUBA
W
hen the dust settled
at Glen Helen Raceway from all the action
that took place over the two-day
running of the 21st annual MTA
World Vet Championships on a
typical sunny and warm Southern Californian autumn weekend,
Travis Preston and Doug Dubach
stood out among the hundreds of
geriatric racers with wins in the
featured 30 and 40 Pro classes.
The "World" part of the popular
long-running event really shined
through the haze this year, as riders from all over the globe came
to compete from as far away as
Guam, Malaysia, Iceland, Slovenia and many points in between.
And the veteran aspect has become apparent in recent years
as well, as the 40+ and older
classes continue to swell with aging talent whose riding says otherwise.
The premier class of the weekend starred Americans Travis
Preston, Michael Sleeter and
Slovenian Roman Jelen as they
raced their way through the 30+
Pro class. Preston made his
way to the front on the first lap
of moto one and gained a huge
lead over the rest of the competition as the race settled in. With
a massive gap between him and
second-place Sleeter, his only
concern (at first) was to just finish
the race without crashing. But in
moto two, Sleeter found a groove
