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BEST IN THE DESERT Series
Bluewater Gran Prix
Parker, Arizona
May 17, 2008



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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