Can-Am’s Don Higbee Takes Second
at BITD Parker 250
Don Higbee and Bryan Buckhannon
Team Up for 2017 BITD Series
Casper, WY (1/13/2017) - After
nearly missing out on the 2016 Best in the Desert
Pro Quad Championship by a few points, Don Higbee
has dramatically switched up his race program
for 2017 by switching to the Can-Am Outlander
1000 and teaming up with multi-time GNCC Pro 4x4
Champion, Bryan Buckhannon in hopes taking the
number one plate in 2017 BITD Series aboard a
utility quad. Higbee got off to a great start
to the season by scoring a second place finish
at the Parker 250, and was the only 4X4 utility
quad in the class.
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Driven
Powersport's Don Higbee made the switch
to the Can-Am Outlander 1000 for 2017 &
he has teamed up with multi-time GNCC Pro
4x4 Champion, to compete in the Best in
the Desert Series Pro Class |
Buckhannon took the lead early in lap one of
the nearly 250 mile long three-lap event before
switching with Higbee. Higbee set a fast pace,
but an unfortunate collision with a rock slowed
his charge. They rebounded to finish second.
“Bryan came in with a healthy 10-minute lead,
I took over, hit a rock about ten miles into the
lap second lap,” explained Higbee. “I wadded it
up and ripped the whole floorboard off the left
side. I limped it to the pits, and the crew did
a great job putting it back to together before
Bryan headed out for the final lap and brought
home a second place finish. The course was really
rough. There were a lot of rocks and whoops. It
was a fun course, challenging and tough. We had
the only utility 4X4 quad out there and we did
great.”
Higbee added “It is awesome to have Bryan on
the team, and he just did a great job bringing
it in with a solid ten minute lead after the first
lap, and we are the only 4x4 utility machine out
there against the sport quads, so it was great
to grab the quad from him in first place.”
Buckhannon is trading the trees and tight muddy
courses of the GNCC series for the wide-open deserts
of BITD competition this season. Always a force
in GNCC, Buckhannon showed his skills are just
as useful in the desert.
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Rocky's Bryan Buckhannon is excited to be
back racing in the desert, and he plans
to only race select GNCC events in 2017 |
“It’s been about four years since I ran a quad
here in BITD,” said Buckhannon. “It was great
to be back. It was kind of like a vacation for
me. I get to switch it up and go a little faster.
We had a good run today. We definitely could have
won. I’m just glad Don is OK. He took a hard hit
today.”
Buckhannon is focused on racing with Higbee in
the BITD Series, and he is just going to race
at select GNCC events and the Hunt the Wolf in
Romania this year. “I just needed a change this
year,” said Buckhannon. “We’re not going to run
the whole GNCC season, but I may hit a couple
of races. I just wanted something different.”
Higbee is excited to still have plenty of the
great sponsors from 2016 including Custom Axis,
which built him an incredible set of shocks for
his new Can-Am Outlander 1000. He also has added
several of Buckhannon’s long time sponsors to
make for a potent combination to chase after that
coveted number one plate in the Best in the Desert
series.
Buckhannon and Higbee will return to BITD racing
at UTV World Championship, round two of the four-race
ATV Series, April 14-15th in Laughlin, NV.
Driven Powersports
Racing 2017 Sponsors:
Can Am, Driven Powersports, Custom Axis, Tucker
Rocky, Dirtworks, Tire Spines, David Jesse Racing,
OMF, Dirtworks, Kenda, DP Brakes, Evans Coolant,
MSR, Arai, Team JDR, Airdam Clutches, Spider Graphix,
Cecco Racing
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