| Northern
Nevada Flat Track TT Championship Series
Round #2 - Thunder Bowl
Moundhouse NV
May 6th, 2006 |
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A perfect night for TT racing
The pit gates at the Thunder Bowl
Speedway in Moundhouse, NV were open early for Round
2 of the 2006 Northern Nevada Flat Track TT Championship
Series on May 6, 2006. And though the promoters
are now blaming cabin fever for starting the season
a bit too early – a blizzard blew out the
March 25 opening at Thunder Bowl and Spring showers
washed out the April 22 event at Rattlesnake Raceway
in Fallon NV – over 110 entries were raring
to go.
As seen in previous seasons the number
of kid and quad ATV racers continues to increase
– kids are almost 50% of all entries and quad
ATVs above 60%.
The most competitive kids are the
80-90cc quad ATVs which were split into Novice and
Junior classes this year with Trysten Schlepp trading
places with Mitchell Menzer for first and second
just as they did April 8th in Round 1 at the Centennial
Speedway in Hawthorne NV.
And as the market trends towards 450cc+
quad ATVs, the 266cc+ 2-Stroke & 450cc+ 4-Stroke
Quad classes were double last years size with twice
as many entries as the previous years outstanding
entries – 400-440cc quads ATVs of the 250cc
2-Stroke & 400cc 4-Stroke Quad classes.
In the first lap of the 25+yrs Quad
Novice main event Brandy Carmichael of Reno had
a hard tumble and on the paramedics advice took
a helicopter ride to the hospital ending the event.
Track owners Charlie and Carol Brandenberg want
everyone to know that after a through check-up and
CAT scan her husband, Pro Quad rider Shawn Carmichael,
took her home Sunday afternoon with only bumps and
bruises saying “at least she got a break from
having to round the kids into the tub after a long
night of racing.
As a consequence of having a helicopter
land in the middle of the track to end the Round
2 events, the remaining cancelled main events were
awarded series points based on heat race finishes.
