Hurricane, UT (6/12/2009)
- DATS Racing sent a skeleton crew to Toutle,
Wa this past weekend, actually only Johnny Shafe
and Garrett Stucki made the trip. Previous Snow
family plans and the late race date move from
WORCS made it impossible to go, so Shafe represented
the Kawasaki green machine from Utah in the
Pro class. Shafe had a terrific race going with
a 2nd on the hole shot and then ended up getting
bumped off of the track on the 2nd jump losing
3 spots. He maintained the 5th spot for most
of the race until the rubber intake boot pulled
away from the airbox and the engine expired.
We are running into issues this year that we
never experienced over the last 2 years.
“Johnny has been giving his all for the
DATS Racing team and he along with our crew
was looking for his best finish of the year.
We are going to continue to work hard to get
Johhny into the top 5 and at a minimum the top
10 for year end. These 2 months off will be
great to analyze and make the necessary changes
to come out swinging for the second half of
the WORCS ATV series.” Darin Snow of DATS
Pro-Am rider and DATS crew member, Garrett
Stucki rode well before succuming to problems
as well in the 2-hr monster event. Stucki who
was slammed into a tree from behind by an over
aggressive blue plate after he got passed by
a red plate. The incident injured his knee and
hopefully he will be back up and running for
the next round in 2 months at Straddleline.
Round 6 will see the return of DATS Pro rider,
Robbie Mitchell returning from his shoulder
injury.
2009 DATS Racing
Sponsors:
DATS Trucking, Overland, Kawasaki,
Rocky Mountain ATV, Tusk, Carter, Roll Design,
Elka, Maxxis, Motoworks, Rekluse, Torco, FastPhotoLap,
JR Publications, Spider, Flexx, RollX, IMS,
Scott USA, G Force, Attack, Primary Drive
