Las Vegas, NV (2/23/2017) - Jennifer
Broughton takes her first Women’s SXS win
of the season on Saturday at the Honolulu
Hills Raceway in Taft, CA. The Las Vegas racer
avoided a first turn rollover, taking the
lead and holding onto it the entire race using
her brand new engine from Sparks Performance
Products.
“Very exciting. On the start we had a little
bit of a tip over, and I was able to cap on
that and took off like a scared rabbit,” Broughton
describes her start.
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Decal's Jennifer Broughton avoided a
first turn roll-over to take the early
lead at the Honolulu Hills WORCS |
The heavy rain conditions resulted in a re-route
on the track, causing the turns to be tighter
this time around, but Broughton didn’t let
that slow her down.
“I remember last year it being a lot more
open but this time it was super tight with
the weather conditions there was only certain
lines so it was a tight turn and she came
in hot and I let up a little bit,” said Broughton.
“I took off and didn’t look back until like
the third lap left, and I turned around and
she was right behind me again; scared me.”
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Racing's Jennifer Broughton takes home
her first Women’s SXS win of the 2017
WORCS Season at Honolulu Hills |
The speedy competition in Primm caused Broughton’s
car to need a tune up for Honolulu Hills,
so she brought the car to Sparks Performance
Products of Bakersfield for some last-minute
work, which paid off for her taking the win.
“We got some tuning done at Sparks Racing
because I was out powered at Primm, so Allan
McCostlin hooked me up with Curtis, and he
got my car running super fast, and hooking
up really, really well,” exclaims Broughton.
“It made a huge difference, so it was nice.”
Broughton’s PEP shocks really showed their
compatibility with the new engine as the car
scaled some major jumps on the raceway.
“Wayne and Jaime with PEP had the shocks
hooking up really good I didn’t feel like
I bottomed out anywhere,” explains Broughton,
“Little bummed that we didn’t get to hit the
step up, because that’s why I come down here
originally but, all in all the car worked
really, really well.”
Due to the rainy weather conditions, Broughton
was unable to test out her Sparks engine modifications
before race day; leaving her with going into
the unknown.
“After the weekend in Primm we brought it
straight down to Sparks and it got worked
on,” says Broughton, “Then Friday, nobody
practiced, so I didn’t even get to drive it
Friday. Saturday, race day, sitting on the
line, that was the first time I drove the
track and the car, so, it was good. Now I
know where I need to work on and what needs
to be done.”
Broughton received a huge confidence booster
with her win this weekend, and now she’s really
looking forward to Lake Havasu.
“It felt good. I’m pretty confident in my
driving, but you gotta have a good car behind
you, so I think it’ll be interesting going
in to Havasu and see if I can pull off another
win.”
Broughton will be heading to Lake Havasu
City, AZ on March 17-19, for the next WORCS
SXS racing weekend.
Jennifer Broughton
2017 Sponsors
C&R Farms, Polaris,
Tireblocks, Rugged Radios, PEP, ATVRiders.com,
Allan McCostlin, Jr & Paula Broughton
