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2008 PIAA / WORCS 8 Hour Endurance Race Report
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Can-Am/Motowork's Josh Frederick & Brandon Smith Win 8 Hour ATV Race on the Can-Am DS450
Phoenix, AZ (1/13/2008)- For 2008, organizers at PIAA and WORCS combined their efforts and put on the first PIAA/WORCS 8-Hour Endurance race. The event consisted of many team classes and an ironman class for both ATV’s and UTV’s. The event did not count for WORCS series points, but most everyone agreed that it was good practice and a lot of fun. Each ATV team was allowed one quad per rider, but only one transponder, which had to be shared amongst teammates.

There were a total of 39 ATV teams that signed up to race, including 8 pro teams.

The Can-am/Motoworks team consisting of Josh Frederick and new Can-Am teammate, Brandon Smith showed up in the new Can-am/Motorworks race rig, which was definitely top notch. All though Motorworks is new to the WORCS series, it didn’t take them long to show that they are a class act. As the quads were getting ready to line up, pro class privateer Tim Shelman could not get his quad started, so while his teammate Ryan Piplic was out on the track, the Motoworks crew took it upon themselves to help Shelman wrench on his quad and get it running. After only 1.5 hours into the race, Shelman’s quad was up and running. Shelman and Piplic ended up with an impressive 4th place even after a final lap crash sustained by Shelman. “Levi Marana and I were battling back and forth in the last lap. I passed him in the motocross section of the track and then he got by me in the off-road section when I crashed in one of the sand wash sections,” stated Shelman.

The track layout was similar to what is used for the WORCS races. “It was a 6 or 7 mile long course. There wasn’t anything too technical, but the sand washes did get pretty rough towards the end,” stated pro racer Mike Cafro. Cafro and his teammate, Chad Prull, were doing an excellent job of keeping pace with WORCS champion Josh Frederick and his teammate Brandon Smith until about half way through the race. “We were doing really good until we got a rock stuck in the rotor and ended up having to pit to get it out,” said Cafro disappointedly. “We lost some time on Josh and Chad when we had to stop and just couldn’t catch back up.” Despite the rock incident, Cafro and Prull had a good run, and ended up in a respectable second place.

Can-Am/Motoworks pro Brandon Smith made an impressive showing at his first WORCS event. Smith made some blindingly fast lap times, along with Frederick, which helped them finish 7 minutes ahead of their nearest competition.

Racing in the darkness for part of the event did present some unique challenges for some racers. “The MX portion of the track was pretty well lit, but the off-road section was completely in the dark,” said Shelman. “We were lucky and had a Baja type set up for our lights, but some guys just had head lights which made it kind of difficult for them to see when they were coming up on some of the jumps and other rough sections,” he concluded.

When the checkered flag was waved, Josh Frederick and Brandon Smith claimed the top spot having completed 39 laps in 8 hours 14minutes. The Temecula Motorsports team consisting of Levi Marana, Mike Cafro, and Chad Prull came in second with 39 laps in 8 hour 21 minutes, while the team consisting of Brandon Brown and Mike Machado took the final place on the podium, completing 38 laps in 8 hours and 24 minutes.

The official full results and lap times can be seen on the WORCS web site along with information on Round #1 of the WORCS points series which, is scheduled for January 25-27 at Speedworld MX in Phoenix, AZ.


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