ROUND 1/JANUARY 11, 2014
PARKER, ARIZONA
OFF ROAD
P78
BEST IN THE DESERT AMERICAN OFF-ROAD RACING SERIES: T
five hundred yards, just going
through gnarly sand whoops and
rocks.
"Finally, I thought, 'What in the
heck am I doing? I'm too old for
this crap!' the 30-year-old Pearson added. "He was riding really
good so he passed me."
But Brabec was unable to finish his stint aboard the FMF/
Dunlop/Northland Motorsportssponsored KX450F when a suspected rock put a hole in the
engine case near the clutch arm
pivot shaft and left him stranded a
few miles before the midway pit.
"Right before the alternate,
I pulled over to check on him,"
Pearson reported. "He was
stopped and said, 'Hey man, my
bike's broke.'
" 'So all right, I guess I'll just
cruise to the finish,' " Pearson
said.
He and Tuffy owned a very
comfortable 10-minute gap on
second place at that point.
The Bell/Brabec DNF of
course moved everyone up
a spot with BITD rookies Jordan Kundert and Blake Stouard now second aboard their
Speed Freaks Apparel-backed
CRF450R. Stouard said, "When
I got on the bike at the midway
pit the first time around, we were
about a minute and a half behind
the two leaders. I just tried to
stay smart and not crash in the
whoops. I'd get a glimpse of their
dust every now and then."
They ended up completing the
