BEST
IN THE DESERT Series
Bluewater Gran Prix
Parker, Arizona
May 17, 2008
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Team Skat-Trak Dominates
BITD Bluewater Grand Prix
Parker, AZ - This was the second
year of the Bluewater GP and team Skat-Trak with
Greg Stuart and Niclas Granlund came ready and was
hungry to take the victory.
Friday
Unfortunaly at a last minute check of the quad
a front brake caliper was acting up, after several
unsuccessful attempts to fix it the team went
to the drivers meeting and was able to locate
a caliper from another racer and after some quick
work the quad was race ready.
Saturday
The morning started with a unclassified race which
was more like a pre-run and was used to dial in
the new prototype Fox shox and the rest of the
Laeger xr 650 quad.
Main Race
With a GP style start and 8 laps around the 10
mile course that included mud holes, sand and
lots of whoops the racers would stand in front
of the quad with a dead engine and all the classes
taking of at the same time.
Greg would start the race and got the quad started
quickly but stalled the engine so he was about
in 25th place thru the first turn, Quickly passing
riders he moved up to 10th at the second turn,
By turn four he was in 8th, As they entered the
desert section Greg had moved up to 5th place,
Then there was about 15 minutes before the first
quad came in to finish lap one, As the first quad
came down the pit road Greg was in the lead with
about a 30 second advantage over second place.
By now the temperature was over 100 degrees, When
Greg came in for the second lap Nic would get
on the Quad, With a smooth rider switch Nic left
the pit with over a one-minute lead.
“My first lap was fast and smooth but I
started to catch lappers on my second lap so I
had some dust to deal with” When Nic handed
the quad over to Greg it was the only re-fueling
needed to go the distant. As lap 5 was started
Greg had over 4 min on second place. The rest
of the race was very hot as the temp would reach
105 in the shade but Team Skat-Trak kept a solid
pace not needing to push as they were consistently
increasing the lead they even took some time to
look over the quad before starting the last lap.
After 8 laps of a perfect trouble free race Nic
and Greg would take the checkered flag well ahead
of the competition.
The next race for Team Skat-Trak is the longest
race in the USA, Vegas to Reno that runs for 532
miles.
Greg and Nic would like to thank the pit crew
of Ken, Tom, Tommy along with their sponsors:
Skat Trak, NGR, Fox Shox, CT, AC, FASST, Fullbore,
Dragon,, Hinson, Torco,
Maxxis, DWT, Quad Tech, Streamline, Laeger, Precision,
Kengingering
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