VOL. 51 ISSUE 3 JANUARY 21, 2014
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THR MOTORSPORTS PARKER 250
Tuffy Pearson leads the
way in the early stages
of the Parker 250.
Briefly...
After starting behind the Pro and Expert bike teams, multi-time Quad Pro
champs Danny Prather and David
Scott passed all but four to end up
fifth overall, putting them on track for
another class championship.
Ironically, when Ricky Brabec found
himself with a broken engine case
and a dead bike, the sweep truck
that picked him up also contained
Nick Burson and the Purvines Racing Beta that had suffered a similar
fate.
Nick Burson and teammate Justin
Morrow were fifth off the line and
found themselves battling with Blais
Racing Services KTM's Sammy
Bangert and Skyler Howes. At one
point, Burson passed Bangert despite having a flat rear tire, though he
couldn't make the pass stick.
Though disappointed at his Parker
outcome, Nick Burson didn't dwell
on it, leaving immediately after the
race and heading back to Southern
California for the opening round of
the D-37 desert racing series. He
won the hare & hound there on his
D-37-specific Beta to somewhat
make up for the Parker DNF.
Matt Canepa and John Harbauer
finished fourth Open Pro on their Developer Choice, Inc. KTM, though
both Harbauer and the 350 XC-F
displayed bad cases of road rash after crashing.
Less than 24 hours before the start,
the Blais Racing Services KTM duo
of Brendan Crow and Ben Meza
didn't even know if they were going
to race, though they proceeded as
if they were. The reason was Crow
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