VOL. 51 ISSUE 3 JANUARY 21, 2014
P77
THR MOTORSPORTS PARKER 250
Briefly...
(Above) Jordan Kundert (pictured)
and Blake Stouard ended up a
solid second in their first BITD
race.
(Left) David Pearson comes up
on a couple of lapped UTVs in
Osborne Wash en route to the win
with his cousin, Tuffy.
for the next 20 miles, basically all
the way to the Python."
But Brabec had the upper
hand, using youthful daring to
get by Pearson's Western Designs/VP Racing Fuels/O'Neal
KX450F. Pearson said, "I got
held up by a UTV coming back
across the aqueduct and I
looked back and, seriously,
Ricky was four feet behind me!
He said that he never even saw
me until he was right on my tail I was in the thick dust.
"So we started battling. We
were able to get around that
UTV, we were battling and I
looked back and he was just
right there in the rocks. We
started pinning it; we were side
by side for, seriously, four or
needed to get medically cleared
due to a shoulder injury two weeks
before. "Yesterday I had an appointment at the doctor at 9:15," he said.
"Immediately after he said I was okay,
we came out to the race, got signed
up and raced. I injured my shoulder
almost two weeks ago just play riding
around on my bicycle." X-rays and an
MRI at the time showed no serious
injury, just something that required
rest. During the race, Crow noted, "It
definitely got sore towards the end in
all the whoops and rocks and stuff. It
was really hard hitting square edges
and having the bike bounce around."
The third Open Expert team to start,
Meza took the first section, going
from the start to the midway pit then
handing off. He said, "My whole first
lap was just passing guys, passing
guys, passing guys until I finally got
myself into a position where I should
be."
The defending Over 40 Pro champs,
Purvines Racing Beta's Todd Abratowski and Steven Fuller got their
season off to a good start by winning, though it wasn't entirely smooth
sailing. "We actually had just a small
issue with the oil cap coming off,"
Abratowski admitted. "So we got that
changed and filled it back up with oil
and got going again and retook the
lead in the Over 40 Pro class and we
just kind of led it from there. Other
than that the bike ran good."
After taking two years off, Tim Wilson jumped back into racing in a
big way by soloing Parker and earning a very respectable finish on his
trusty KTM 525. Asked why he did
it, he quipped, smiling, "I'm not very
smart. Peer pressure. I want to thank
Curtis Motorsports, Kevin Curtis and
continued on next page
