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Team Skat-Trak Dominates Best In The Desert Bluewater Grand Prix
Parker AZ 5/17/2008
This was the second year of the Bluewater GP and team Skat-Trak with Greg Stuart and Niclas Granlund came ready and was hungry to take the victory.
With a GP style start and 8 laps around the 10 mile course that included mud holes, sand and lots of whoops the racers would stand in front of the quad with a dead engine and all the classes taking of at the same time.
Greg would start the race and got the quad started quickly but stalled the engine so he was about in 25th place thru the first turn, Quickly passing riders he moved up to 10th at the second turn, By turn four he was in 8th, As they entered the desert section Greg had moved up to 5th place, Then there was about 15 minutes before the first quad came in to finish lap one, As the first quad came down the pit road Greg was in the lead with about a 30 second advantage over second place. By now the temperature was over 100 degrees, When Greg came in for the second lap Nic would get on the Quad, With a smooth rider switch Nic left the pit with over a one-minute lead.
“My first lap was fast and smooth but I started to catch lappers on my second lap so I had some dust to deal with” When Nic handed the quad over to Greg it was the only re-fueling needed to go the distance. As lap 5 was started Greg had over 4 min on second place. The rest of the race was very hot as the temp would reach 105 in the shade but Team Skat-Trak kept a solid pace not needing to push as they were consistently increasing the lead they even took some time to look over the quad before starting the last lap. After 8 laps of a perfect trouble free race Nic and Greg would take the checkered flag well ahead of the competition.
The next race for Team Skat-Trak is the longest race in the USA, Vegas to Reno that runs for 532 miles.
Greg and Nic would like to thank the pit crew of Ken, Tom, Tommy
And all of our sponsors
Skat Trak, NGR, Fox Shox, CT Racing, AC, FASST, Fullbore, Dragon,, Hinson, Torco,
Maxxis, DWT, Quad Tech, Streamline, Laeger, Precision, Kengingering
Baja 1000
November 13'th is the start of the 40th annual Baja 1000. CT Allen Knowles will be Racing with the Temecula Motorsports team running the length of the Baja Peninsula. For the 40th annual Score made it special by adding some mileage. This years race is a whopping 1,296 miles. Allen will be back in with a race report on Monday the 19th. Allen will be racing on the team with Danny Prather, Mike Cafro, Levi Marana, Dana Creech , and Mark Spaeth. This is the same team that won the thousand last year.
Team Teixeira Racing Wins BITD Championship
Team Teixeira Racing took the overall Sportsman Championship for the Best in the Desert 2007 Silver State Series. Teammates Ed Teixeira and Todd Hunter started the series off on a hybrid KTM 525R, and finished the last four races on a Teixeira built Honda TRX 450R. The Team had a good run early on in the series, but it was winning the TSCO Vegas to Reno on the Honda that pushed them ahead in class points. Teixeira and Hunter then began the battle for the Grand Championship, leading the points chase up until the last race, and then losing out to the Pro Honda Factory team by only 3 points.
The Teixeira Racing Team of Derek McCabe, Bill Baier and Jason Sparks, were the highest scoring team in the Amateur class on a Yamaha YFZ 450. This team had a really rough season, but pulled it all together for a great win at the last race in the series.
Team Teixeira Racing would like to thank all of its sponsors for a great 2007 season. Without the reliable products from these companies, the team would not have been able to take these 2 championships. After racing over 1500 miles of treacherous desert terrain, Ed & Todd had absolutely no mechanical problems the whole year. This is due to the quality of the products put out by the companies listed below.
Sponsors: CT Racing, Cardio Stack, Carmichael Honda, DWT, Dirt Tricks (Ironman Sprockets), Fluidyne, Fox Shox, Fuel Customs, F2Racing, Galfer, Graves Motorsports, HardKor, Hinson, Hot Cams, Hot Rods, IMS, Klotz, Maier, Maxxis, Moose, Oury Grip, Pivot Works, Precision-RP, Pro Armor, RPM, Regina, SCR Graphics, Scott, Sunoco Race fuels, Terry Cable, Teixeira Tech Racing, Tire Balls, Trail Tech, T & M Lawn Maintenance, Wiseco, Uni, Universal.
Las Vegas 300
CT Racing's Nic Granlund and Greg Stuart Ripped the competition in the Best in the Desert Las Vegas 300, blowing off the factory Honda team of Matlock and Pruel by over 8 minutes. The team was consistently turning two minutes per lap faster times than the second place Honda entry, around the 40+ mile course. Nic and Greg were racing the Laeger Chassis, CT Racing Modified XR650 powered Honda in this event. Congratulations Nic and Greg on your second BITD win this year.
Polaris Cup
CT Racing owner Allen Knowles is back racing a quad after nearly a twenty years of not racing. Allen is Racing a Polaris 525 Outlaw in what is known as the Editors Cup. Each of the magazines was offered a chance to race the Polaris 525 for three races two GNCC and one Worcs series event. Allen is doing the riding, racing, writing for ATV Sport magazine. CT racing is able to do any mods and prep work they want to the Polaris Outlaw 525 Independent that they want. This is a great opportunity for CT Racing to develop the 525 KTM motor plus working with the Polaris. You'll be able to read about the project quad in an upcoming issue of ATV Sport Magazine. Allen raced the Unadilla New York round over the October 14-15 weekend besting the Magazine guys and second in the sportsman class. Allen will be competing in the Yadkinville NC round October27th, so if you are attending that race look Allen up.
CT Racing would like to thank the Participating Sponsors of Allen's Return to Racing (most likely very short lived return). TCS Suspension, JE Pistons, Web Camshafts, Kibblewhite Valve Components, Douglas Wheel, Maxxis Tire, Precision Racing Components, PWR Radiator, TCS suspension, IMS products, Rath Racing.
Allen raced Unadilla on the Polaris Outlaw besting the other magazine entry's in the race. Allen picked up second in the Sportsman Class. This was the class all of the magazine's chose to ride so they didn't have any impact on class championship's as the Sportsman class doesn't race for a championship. Allen was actually leading the class going into the fourth lap, but a bent spindle kept him from pushing on the 5th lap. He let the eventual class winner by and just cruised in to stay ahead of the other magazine's competing in the Polaris cup.
Yadkinville round of the GNCC was not as good to Allen as the New York round. He got off to a better start in this round but near the completion of the first lap the front wheel bearing on the Outlaw started to go and by the end of lap two the front bearings and hub were completely blown off of the quad so Allen was left with a DNF.
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September 24, 2007
Rath Rocks on his Polaris Outlaw 525 at Stateline Supermoto Sept. 22-23, Primm NV Daryl Rath wins both Pro Class and the 25+ Class piloting his new Polaris Outlaw 525 for the first time. One week after Daryl Rath showed his skills on a utility 4x4, he decided to put his sport quad Supermoto skills to the test. Daryl Rath made the long haul from Minnesota to participate and support this event for the third year. Daryl had reached an agreement with Polaris just a few weeks prior to build a bike and compete. While the Supermoto Pro Class rules are unique allowing open displacement the agreement with Polaris to run the Outlaw 525S helped level the playing field. Rath and his crew worked all weekend to fine-tune his new Baldwin Motorsports powered Polaris Outlaw 525. With a thanks to a CT Racing Sonic Exhaust personally delivered by Allen Knowles late Saturday and a custom intake from Home Depot (patent pending) the Rath crew was able to put the power to the Duro Tires. The 25+ class seems to be the "warm-up" for quite a few of the Pros like Jason Anderson, Nic Granlund and Daryl Rath. Anderson and Granlund had decent starting positions for the 29 rider heat race while Rath had last pick and started in the back. Supermoto start rules are quite different then other forms of racing- while a full gate in MX is twenty riders wide- Supermoto grids are often four riders wide and up to ten rows deep. Granlund pulled the holeshot checked out from the rest of the field running a flawless race, while Rath had to work hard to fight through the field. By the end of the 6 lap heat race, Rath had made it to 4th place and insured himself of a front row start for the main event. In Sundays main event, Rath grabbed the holeshot with Granlund right behind. Rath showing the veteran that he is lead from green to checkers. There were 22 Pros battling it out this weekend. Heat 1 Frank Batista (Honda/Sparks) made his way to the front early and seemed to be on his way to a heat race win until a slight bobble in the whoops opened the door for Daryl Rath and Shawn Bigham (YamahaYFZ). Bigham and Batista battled it out for a few laps until Batista made a pass coming off the dirt. Meanwhile, Rath built a nice size lead and went on to win Heat 1 with Batisita in second and Bigham rounding out the top three. Heat 2 started with a bang when Kenny Pacheco took the holeshot and jumped out to an early lead on his DASA powered LT-R450. Landon Hurst made a nice transition from MX to Supermoto as he moved his way through the group and passed Pacheco for the lead, on his way to his first Supermoto heat race win. Pacheco finished second and secured a front row start for the main event. Nic Granlund got tangled with a rider causing a wreck that knocked him out of the heat race forcing him to the back of the main. In the main event Daryl Rath took the holeshot and immediately pulled away from the crowd while the rest of the top 5 battled it out for position. Batista found himself in 2nd place in a battle with Hurst. Hurst passed Batista coming out of the dirt and they made their way through the fast and technical road section. Hurst slipped up in the marbles sending him into the bails knocking him out of the main and almost collecting Batista in the process. Nic Granlund was working his way through traffic and setting his sites on Batista. On lap 9 Batista's lost his seat was making things even more difficult on this demanding course. Granlund and Batista battled for a few laps until Granlund made the pass on Batista just before the white flag. Rath cruised to the main event win with an impressive 23 second lead, followed by Granlund and Batista. Kenny Pacheco held on to a top 5 finish .. As Daryl Rath took the checkers, tossed his goggles it is appearant his 40th birthday next week will not be slowing him down anytime soon. Special thanks to : Polaris Ind. – Baldwin Motorsports –XStream Composites – Fox Shox - CT Racing – Duro Tires – Douglas Wheel –Fly Racing – Rath Racing – Precision Dampners Scott Goggles – Hinson – PEP – Faast Handlebars – Quad Tech – Maxima Oil Personal Thanks to : David Jubie – Brad Loomis – Scott Woodhouse – Rory Beckman – Joe Duncan
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Baja 500
6/2/07
Team CT Racing/Temecula Motorsports wins Baja 500. The team of Danny Prather, Mike Cafro, Dana Creech, Mark Spaeth and Levi Marana did a fantastic job winning the Baja 500, this following their Baja 250 win earlier in the year. Only the Score Baja 1000 is left in the 3 race championship. The team is on a Off-Road tear winning their fourth Score race in a row going back to last years Baja 500 and Baja 100 wins. That’s 2250 miles of off road racing with no failures. That is only possible with the help and use of best products available from suppliers like Maxxis Tire, Roll, Elka Suspension, Web Cam, Tire Balls, PWR Radiator, Douglas Wheel, RPM Axles, Works Connection, Universal Bars, AC Racing, Hinson Clutch Basket, Streamline Brakes and Rotors, K&N Filters, IMS , Pro-X clutches, Maier Plastic, Wolfpack
The race was certainly not uneventful, as Mike Cafro started off riding the first 35 miles of the course. Mike started off as the 10th quad off of the line and Mike was able to pass all but two quad teams The Factory Honda backed effort of Wayne Matlock, Wes Miller and Chad Pruel, and the Temecula Motorsports team of Carmen Cafro and Lance Schoomaker. Mike was only about one minute down to the Honda team on corrected time, and ahead of the Carmen Cafro effort. Mike broke his left wrist on the section ending the rest of his day, but doing a phenomenal job considering. Danny Prather hopped on next, passing the Cafro team and running down the Honda team handing the quad over to Dana Creech just a few seconds behind Matlock Honda team but ahead on corrected time. Mark Spaeth was next aboard. Mark bailed off and had a hard time getting the quad re-fired, he was down by as much as 13 minutes, but made a charge and handed the quad over to (Lucky) Levi Marana just 8 minutes down. Levi was instructed to run them down and he went after them, somewhere along the way Wes Miller went off of a cliff on the factory Honda handing the lead and the win back to Lucky Levi and the team. Wes ended up having to ride in with a broken leg. The Honda team was able to salvage second to CT/Temecula Motorsports.
Baja 1000
11/17/06
2006 SCORE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS
With the Baja 500 and Baja 1000 wins Team CT Racing/Temecula Motorsports wins the Score off road championship for the second year in a row. We used a whole new cast of characters from last years winning team, the only holdover was Levi Marana. Josh Fredrics moved on to the Bombardier Factory team.
10/28/06
Best in the Desert AVI 150
CT Racings Mike Cafro and Danny Prather Dominated the Best in the Desert AVI 150. This was the inaugural race held on the AVI Indian reservation just below Laughlin Nevada. CT's big Nic Granlund started first off of the line and lead the first lap closely followed by CT's Greg Stuart who started second Wayne Matlock came through third with Mike Cafro fourth. Nic got off the quad after one 38 mile lap and his teammate Shawn Moore hopped on and left the pit about 15 seconds ahead of Stuart and the rest of the pack. Greg having been one lap around the course ripped by Moore within just a couple of miles out of the pit and brought the CT sonic quad into the pit with almost a four minute lead turning the fastest lap of the race. Greg Hopped off at the end of lap two and Ed Teixeira put in a lap to give Greg a breather, Ed had never ridden the Honda and just couldn't come to terms with it, in the one lap losing several positions. Cafro came through leading lap three and holding on to the finish, followed by David Scott and Jeremy Sanchez , CT's Levi Marana and Brandon Brown On a CT Sonic 450R in third Jeff Hancock and Kyle Pethers in fourth and Stuart/Teixeira in fifth.
CT Racing would like to than team sponsors Temecula Motorsports, Moore's Ace Hardware, Maxxis tire, IMS/Roll, Elka Suspension, Web Cam, PWR Radiator, Douglas Wheel, Dura Blue Axles, Works Connection, Hinson Clutch Basket, Pro-X clutches, and especially Ken Stuart at Skat Trak.
The race was televised and will run on The Outdoor channel later in the year, we'll post the date and time when it becomes available.
2006 Baja 500 Win goes to CT Racing
Mike Cafro, Danny Prather and Levi Marana teamed up to to Pilot CT Racing/Temecula Motorsports TRX 450 R around the Baja Peninsula in a winning effort. The boys spent several hundred miles working their way from a very bad starting position, getting to second place after about 200 miles of racing. Shortly after getting to second place the team lost third gear and that really hampered the effort to rain in the leading team of Wayne Matlock and Chad Prull. Late in the race the course got fast and third gear became less of a factor, CT's Levi Marana put the CT Hp to work and ran down the 15 minute gap of Matlock/Prull in the last 100 miles of the race. Levi pulled in right on the rear wheels of the leaders giving us the win by several minutes on corrected time. Thanks to the support from Temecula Motorsports, Maxxis tire, IMS/Roll, Elka Suspension, Web Cam, Tire Balls, PWR Radiator, Douglas Wheel, Dura Blue Axles, Works Connection, Universal Bars, AC Racing, Hinson Clutch Basket, Galfer Brakes and Rotors, UNI, Torco Oils, Pro-X clutches, and Hard Core.
Jan.7th Parker 250
Team CT's pair of Hondas had good runs at the opening round of the BITD championship in Parker Arizona. The team of Greg Stuart and his new teammate for 06 Nick Nelson put in a great ride. Greg is new to the Honda TRX 450R so he is still getting used to it. The pair started 10th off the line and had to suck a lot of dust finishing the first of three laps in 4th. Nick rode lap two getting around the Josh Fredrics-Greg Row team on a Bombardier. Greg charged hard on the final lap closing down on second place CT's other team Mike Cafro and Danny Prather. Greg crossed the line right in Danny's dust giving him second on corrected time and just a couple of minutes out of the win. We expect good things from the Stuart-Nelson pairing for 06, and the Cafro Prather pairing have proven to be a threat anywhere they show up. Cafro and Prather will also be contesting the Score Championship for CT. Congratulations to Honda/Alba winners Wayne Matlock and Chad Prull.
JAN 1st.
Longtime team CT racer Jimmy Stephensen has announced his retirement from off-road ATV racing. Jimmy has been the lead rider for CT's off road program since 1998. Through the years Jimmy has won the San Felipe 250 and Baja 500 multiple times, was part of the winning effort for the Baja 2000 and also won the Best in the Desert 2000 mile Nevada rally in 2000 along with the infamous numb bum 24 hour team race that year. Jimmy was the rider of record for the team that won Score off road Championship in 2002, Jimmy was also part of the team that won the LeFud 24 hour team race multiple times. Jimmy was 2nd in BITD in 02 and 3rd in 05.
2005 Baja 1000
Honda has given us Three 06 450R to use for our Off-Road racing program. We are prepping the 06's to compete in the Baja 1000. Our riders are Josh Fredrics, Cyle Chislock, Levi Marana and Logan Holiday (leading in score points), Nick Nelson, Jason Greenhaw, Nick Destout and Cain Smead (2nd in score points), and the always fast Mike Caffro. Mike has GNCC ace William Yokley out for the 1000 to help get his team to the front, along with perennial fast guy Danny Prather . The 1000 starts on Friday November 18th. We will be offering postings as soon as possible. This years course is the loop course covering just over 700 miles. We will be receiving pit support from Honda, although we will have several of our own crews chasing just to insure things go smoothly.
We raced the Baja 1000, every team had issues and most of it involved crashing. Mike Cafro was leading at around mile 150, mike went to the far side of a silt bed and Wayne Matlock took the inside and got by Mike, William Yokley hopped on at mile 200 just behind the 9A quad of Matlock. Yokley got off hard and the team spent a fair bit of time changing a broken rear shock ripped up front Brake Lines. The Nick Nelson team had several get offs including a high speed get off at night ending upside down in a mud hole and another one that they ended up stuck in a ravine for 30 minutes.
In all the teams did there job and got all three quads to the finish. The Josh Fredrics and Cyle Chislock Team won the Score Off Road Championship and The Nick Nelson Team Finished out Second for the year.
Best in the Desert McMillen Nevada 1000
July 14/15/16/17
Team CT Racing had a rough week at the 1000. With two teams Josh Fredrick and Cyle Chislock aboard there CT Racing, Temecula Motorsports, Maxxis tire, Roll, IMS, Elka Suspension, Web Cam sponsored Honda 450 R and Jimmy Stephensen and Greg Stuart aboard the CT Racing, Skat Track, Web Cam, RPM axle, Laeger Racing Kawasaki KFX 440 .
Day 1. 220 miles
Day one went well Jimmy and Greg started 7 and worked there way through the dust finishing the day 2 minutes behind front runner Wayne Matlock about 2 minutes back. Josh and Cyle finished about two and a half minutes back. This was all that needed to be done on day one save the equipment and don't push to hard.
Day 2 330 miles
The plan was for another day like day one, save the equipment stay up near the front.
Riders line up each day by the way they finished the day before so we were lined up two and three. That means eating a lot less dust that the day before. Quads start one quad every minute. After pit two Greg had a problem the vent hose on the tank was kinked, and the quad ran poorly. Greg thought it was ignition and he pulled over and went to the spare CDI box, That didn't work but Greg was able to figure it out, the vent hose runs through the cover for the quick fill tank and it was flipped around in the pit. Greg had lost 7 minutes to leader Matlock and Josh Fredrick was by on the Honda. Pit 4 the two had closed the gap on Matlock to just three and a half minutes and a rider change was done by both teams. Pit five the gap was about the same but Cyle came in with a flat, Jimmy came in and got gas only and was out in front of Cyle but barely, Jimmy had the position and Cyle had more speed so they were rubbing wheels as they went out of sight. Pit 5 both riders were late, Allen Whites team was in and we got the report that it looked like our two riders had gone down together about 15 miles out but it looked like both riders were moving slowly again. Cyle came in first with a completely wadded Honda, Badly bent bars, No anti- freeze in the radiator (cut line) and a few other problems. Jimmy came in a few minutes later just wide open looking to be trying to pull time back already, even though we had heard earlier reports he was riding slowly. Jimmy got off Greg got on with a quick once over the quad was deemed good to go. Greg ran out the rest of the day as hard as possible finishing with a corrected time of about 17 minutes out of the lead and in third overall. Josh was almost an hour off. Jimmy had a concussion had no idea what he was riding, where he was riding, if we was racing or who his teammate was. All questions he asked us repeatedly. Jimmy spent a few hours at the hospital getting a cat Scan and some X-rays.
Day 3 323 miles
The Plan, let it fly.
Greg started hard, Jimmy gave him a 44 mile break from pit two to three and Greg iron manned it the rest of the day. Winning the day and pulling back a few minutes over Matlock and taking second place back from Allen White. Josh and Kyle just put in a hard day finishing third on the day behind Greg and Allen White all three quads within one minute. Matlock finished forth still with a nearly 15 minute lead and 120 miles to go.
Day 4 119 miles
The Plan Really let it fly
Greg starts first as he won the day before, Allen White second Josh third Matlock fourth. 119 miles is not far enough to pick up the kind of time we needed but we did need to gap White. Pit one Greg came with a four minute lead, but he said he had already pitched the chain once. Pit two he came in with about the same gap but we needed to install a new chain guide, that put us behind White so that gave Jimmy and Greg third for the 1000 and Josh and Cyle were able to rebound to finish fourth.
On the good side Jimmy and Greg have taken over the point lead and Josh and Cyle have moved into third place.
Next race Vegas to Reno Oct.6/7/8
June 4th 05 CT Racing Team Dominates the BAJA 500
Team CT Racing ripped the second round of the Score Off Road series winning both the 250 and open class in the Baja 500. 1st was CT Racing Temecula Motorsports Maxxis tire Roll, IMS, Elka Web Cam sponsored Honda 450 R mounted Riders Josh Fredrics, Cyle Chislock and Levi Marana The CT team riders rode just as they had been instructed at the team riders meeting, set a good pace don't crash and don't tear up the quad on an extremely rough rocky course. The early lead was H-Bomb films Wes Miller and teammate Dana Creech on their #5A 450r . Josh worked through quads starting ahead and by 150 miles in was down by 10 minutes to the Miller team. After the Mikes sky ranch loop the gap was closing fast With the CT riders charging on the faster part of the course. CT Racing, Temecula Motorsports, Maxxis tire, Roll, IMS, Elka, Web Cam sponsored Honda 450 R mounted Mike Cafro, Danny Prather and Jimmy Stepehensen were also charging working there way up to third and closing on both lead quads, after suffering rear brake problems early riding #10A. CT Racing Maxxis tire, So Cal Fab Shop, Fastco bars, Web Cam, Denton Racing, Elka sponsored riders Nick Nelson, Jason Greenhaw and Cain Smead on a CT modified Honda 450R were floating around in about 4th place until a center of a wheel came apart at midway section of the race dropping them back to about 8th at the halfway point riding 12A. The 10Ateam of Josh, Kyle and Levi took the lead from 2A Miller and Creech with about a 75 miles to go. The 6A team of Cafro, Stepehensen and Prather rolled into a battle with the 2A Miller team for second, and with five miles to the finish and clearly second place the swing arm broke in half leaving them with a DNF. 2A of Miller Creech finished second. 12A Nelson team came from there setback to finish a hard charging 6th.
The CT team of Kirk Shreier, Shane Strunk, and Josh Edwards set a blistering pace aboard their CT Pro-X 250 Power Valve, powered 250R. The team passed most of the 14 open class quads that started ahead of them to finish 5th overall ATV.
Feb. 26th 05 CT Racing Dominates Score San Felipe 250
CT Racing Dominated the first round of the Score Off Road series. CT riders went 1st 2nd and 3rd overall in the San Felipe 250. 1st was CT Racing Temecula Motorsports Maxxis tire Roll, IMS, Elka Web Cam sponsored Honda 450 R mounted Riders Josh Fredrics, Cyle Chislock and Levi Marana by only five seconds over CT Racing Temecula Motorsports Maxxis tire, Roll, IMS, Elka Web Cam sponsored YFZ450 mounted Mike Cafro and only nine seconds behind them was CT Racing Maxxis tire, So Cal Fab Shop, Fastco bars, Web Cam, Denton Racing, Elka sponsored riders Nick Nelson, Jason Greenhaw, and Jeff Anderson on a CT modified Honda 450R. This was the tightest one two three finish in a desert race that anyone had ever heard of. Every rider on all 2nd and 3rd finishing teams could think up an excuse for how they lost those couple of extra seconds that could have put there team in front. But in reality all three teams had trouble free days and just raced hard to the end.
CT 350 Power Valve Laeger Aluminum No-link chassis.
CT just put the finishing touches on this perfect R. We built it for ATV Sport editor Bill Lanphier. This quad will be seen in an upcoming issue of ATV Sport magazine.
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CT Racing Wins 2002 Score Off Road Championship
Jimmy Stephensen, Mike Caffro with help from Cain Smead have won the 2002 Score off road championship The team of Mike and Jimmy won the San Felipe 250 and the Baja 500 with flawless rides on there CT Pro-X Power Valved 250R. The CT Racing, Roll design chassis, VP Race Gas, Temecula Motorsports, Custom Axis Suspension, Golden West Cycles, Maxxis Razor Tire, Motul, Douglas Wheel, Hinson Racing, Graydon Proline, IMS, Maier Plastic, JS Pest Control, Dura Blue, Zing Graphics, C&C Race Photos, Tsubaki chain, PC Carbon Fiber, Motion Pro, Works Connection, Scott Goggles, GPR Stabilizer, Ricky Stator, Braking, Tag Bars, Outerwear's, Uni Filters Sponsored 250R . With help from Cain their 4th place finish in the Baja 1000 gave them the championship.
Baja 1000
Team CT racing just completed the Baja 1000. Jimmy Stephensen, Cain Smead, and Mike Caffro set an easy pace early in the race. With two wins in the previous two races (San Felipe and Baja 500) we needed a good finish to win the Score Championship. Our strategy was to let the race come to us. By check 2 we had moved to second and were just keeping a good pace with Mike at the controls. Cain jumped on at about 350 mile mark, just as it began to get dark. Cain lost the 2 main headlights and was down to the backup. Cain stopped at a Honda pit and asked for some bulbs, they had him wait for a few minutes and then told him they had none. Cain set off on coarse and two miles later lost the backup. He rode back to the Honda pit in the dark with no light at all. Team Honda decided to cough a couple of bulbs. Total time lost over an hour. Jimmy got controls at about midnight. About 20 miles into the run he lost all lights. Kevin Avina in one of the three chase trucks was able too run him down and swap light racks and send Jimmy off to the finish. Other than light problems the quad was never wrenched on just air filters and fuel. We had zero flats running Maxis Razor's. Our finish position was fourth.
The 5a Honda Rincon team was Docked 4 positions moving them back too fifth for cutting the course. They admitted to us that they had cut the course after the DQ, but Honda politics was able to get them re-instated as the winner.
Pikes Peak
CT Racing's Bobby Parr won the 2002 Pikes peak hill climb on his CT Racing powered Yamaha Banshee. The pikes peak hill climb is a one shot deal up the 12.4 mile accent, with 156 turns and elevation changing from 9,390 feet at the start to 14,110 feet at the finish. Bobby battled with John Stallworth at the beginning of the climb, after making an outside pass on John, Bobby took off uncontested. Bobby did make a mistake and spin out on the lower section of the course possibly costing him a shot at a record time.
2002 Baja 500
The CT Racing team of Jimmy Stephensen and Mike Cafro dominated the Baja 500 On their CT Pro-X Power Valved 250R. The Kevin Avina Prepped, CT Racing, Roll design chassis, VP Race Gas, Temecula Motorsports, Custom Axis Suspension, Golden West Cycles, Maxxis Razor Tire, Motul, Douglas Wheel, Hinson Racing, Graydon Proline, IMS, Maier Plastic, JS Pest Control, Dura Blue, Zing Graphics, C&C Race Photos, Tsubaki chain, PC Carbon Fiber, Motion Pro, Works Connection, Scott Goggles, GPR Stabilizer, Ricky Stator, Braking, Tag Bars, Outerwear's, Uni Filters Sponsored 250R had a nearly Flawless day to put away the Competition. The only problem was a flat rear tire after a pit so running about 40 miles on one of the faster sections of the course gave the Team Greg Row Bombardier Factory sponsored DS 650, and John Gregory piloted Golden west, Duncan Racing sponsored 250 R a chance to catch up and even take over the lead. After taking the lead back on the coast section about 2/3 way through the Race the CT powered Honda just pulled away to an eventual 6 minute win over The Team Greg Row DS 650
This is the second Score Off Road racing win in a row for the Team CT 250 R, Mike and Jimmy also won the Score off Road San Felipe 250 by over 30 minutes back in march. This leaves the team with a commanding point lead with only the Baja 1000 to go.
Below is a link to a short story on our Baja winning 250R. Save Off-Road.Com to your favorites they always have up to date race coverage of the west coast desert race scene.
http://www.off-road.com/atv/features/kevinavina/index.html
This is a link to ATV Connection, they have a test on our Power Valve 350 kit. Have a look.
We have a new page on the site, Featured Articles and we will be
adding lots of past magazine test to it in the near future. Have a look,
let us know what you think. The quality of the text is not perfect because we do
scan them out of Magazines.
Raptor Ride Impression
Have a look at this interview with Bill Lanphier. I did a Ride impression at the European introduction of the Raptor last year while I was in France. It was just posted to this online magazine.
Jimmy Stephensen
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