as he'd done all last year, he
worked his way up to second on
the first time around, but as he
approached the end of the loop,
he discovered that his on his
TBT Racing Yamaha YZ450FX
needed a bit more fuel than the
2.5-gallon IMS tank held and
ran out shortly before the main
pit. (The 3.0-gallon tanks were
apparently back-ordered.)
"After running out of gas, I ran
back [to get a can of fuel] and
that tore me apart," he said. "I
vomited just from huffing and
puffing and coughing. It was
bad."
He obviously lost a lot of time
before rejoining the race and
ended up a disappointed 12th
Open Pro. "I definitely wasn't
100 percent, but I rode pretty
good [for having] a new bike.
I was just spent [and] I wasn't
taking too many chances, espe-
cially with the dust."
The Jake Longtine/Parker
Steele team ended up fourth
bike overall on their 440 Motor-
sports KTM in 4:38:12 ahead
of Jason Alosi/Wyatt Brittner's
Source 1 Commercial Cleaning
Services KTM (4:43:00), Coo-
per Motorsports 747/Monarch
Honda's Danny Cooper/Tuffy
Pearson/Nick Tolman (4:44:17),
300cc Pro winners Deegan and
Jeremy Newton aboard their
Scootin' Newton Racing/La
Piazza Pizza YZ250 (4:49:36).
Eighth overall went to over 30
Pro winners Danny Cooper/Re-
ece Honea aboard their Coo-
per Motorsports 747/Monarch
Honda (4:54:41). They were
followed by Braxtan Gallian, who
soloed to seventh Open Pro
on his trusty The Pit Enterprise
XR650R (4:55:48) and Certi-
fied Appliance Yamaha-mounted
Alex Kortepeter/Luis Escobedo
(4:58:05).
Mark Kariya
IN
THE
WIND
P46
The Ironman
classes continue
to be the most
popular and David
Lahn came from
behind to overall
the two-loopers
on his Webb
Powersports KTM.
