| WORCS
ATV Series
Round #4
Clay Peaks Motocross
April 7-8, 2007 |
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Payette, Idaho- After three rounds of
racing in the southwest desert terrain, the WORCS series
headed north to the grass hills of Payette, Idaho for
a dramatic change in scenario. Instead of high speed flats,
racers would face monstrous hill climbs with some treacherous
descents, which provided a new challenge to the racers
not seen so far this season.
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Clay
Peaks Pits & Starting Area at the base of
the grassy hills |
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#15
Ryan Piplic showed up with his new KFX450R after
skipping the past few rounds of racing |
The weekend started out picture perfect with mild temperatures
and sunny skies, which provided for a great day of racing
on Saturday, but everything changed Saturday night when
rain moved in and dowsed the track, which turned it
into a muddy mess for Sunday. With the dramatic change
in the track condition, the pros scrambled to water
proof their ATVs along with providing protection for
their radiators from being clogged with mud, which can
melt down an engine in no time from the lack of proper
air cooling.
For Doug Eichner, the sloppy conditions wasn’t
anything new to him after years of racing, but he would
be facing these conditions for the first time on his
brand new Polaris Outlaw 525, which replaces his Honda
450R for the rest of the season. It was announced that
Eichner signed with Polaris several weeks prior, but
Eichner held out on making the switch until he could
get all the aftermarket components to convert it into
pro caliber WORCS race ready machine. The biggest change
was the addition of the FOX Racing Shox’s on the
front and the rear along with a Duncan Exhaust and engine
tuning, but otherwise, the Outlaw 525 remained amazingly
virtually stock besides other minor bolt on accessories.
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#1
Doug Eichner's Polaris Outlaw 525 |
With a total of 18 Pro Riders, the gate was nearly
full once again as they lined up for the start of the
Pro Main, which is unlike any other start of the season
as the Pros face one of the longest and steepest starts
of the season, and when the gate dropped, it would be
none other than Doug Eichner grabbing the ATVriders.com
Holeshot Award aboard his Polaris Outlaw 525 as he outrun
Jeremy Schell, Josh Frederick, Johnny Shafe, and Levi
Marna to the top of the hill.
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Doug
Eichner grabbed the ATVriders.com Holeshot Award
on his Polaris Outlaw 525 |
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