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ATV Tour
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Englishtown, NJ (8/19/2007) - John
Natalie, Jr. won a tight SuperQuad Pro 450 final, and
Chris Borich handed Can-Am its second consecutive Manufacturers'
Championship after winning a wild and muddy QuadTerrain
Challenge final during Sunday's Raceway Park National
at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. The race was Round
9 of the WPSA PowerSports ATV Tour.
The races will be telecast on ESPN2 on Sept. 14 at
5 p.m. EDT.
SuperQuad Pro 450
Natalie (No. 13 Elka, Maxxis/Honda) took the lead
early in the event and seemed to have the race well
in hand. That is, until Chad Wienen (No. 44 Team Rockstar,
MSR, Pro Taper, Yoshimura/Suzuki) moved up to second.
Dogging Natalie during the final laps of the event,
Wienen nearly took the lead in the uphill section,
but Natalie just held him off and went on to take
his fourth victory of the 2007 season.
Unofficially, Natalie pads his lead in the Riders'
Championship. Meanwhile, Suzuki's domaninance this
season showed, as a Suzuki quad needs only to start
the final at the next race to clinch its second consecutive
Manufacturers' Championship.
"Chad Wienen is just an amazing athelete. He
is in such good shape," said Natalie. "I
could run his pace at the beginning, but at the end
I was just hanging on. I dug deep on the final two
laps and pushed it as hard as I could. Seeing the
white flag gave me that little bit of extra energy
I needed.
"I'm going to go home, train really hard, I'm
going to come out in as good a shape as Wienen and
I'm going to whip his butt," joked Natalie. "We're
going to my home state (Pennsylvania) for the final
race, so I'll have a lot of fans there. That'll just
rev me up. I'm ready to go."
QuadTerrain Challenge
Just as the QuadTerrain Pro Stock final took the start,
a massive rain storm enveloped Raceway Park, turning
the track into a morrass. Borich (No. 2 Warnert Racing/Can-Cam),
as he has five other times this season, came out on
top. Scott Kilby (No. 207 Warnert Racing/Can-Cam)
and points leader Jesse West (No. 888 West Racing/Arctic
Cat) completed the top three.
"We just had that one bad race with the mechanical
problem. Without that, we probably would have won
all of them," said Borich. "This Can-Am
and my Warnert Racing team have just done a great
job this year.
"We were getting ready to go, and the rain just
started coming down," added Borich. "The
logs and the rocks were unbelievably hard to get through.
It really didn't change my strategy, though. I tried
to get out front early, keep my momentum going and
it worked out today."
| Other winners during the weekend were: |
- Pro SuperSport: Kyle Fiebelkorn (No. 11
Jack Link's/Arctic Cat Prowler)
- SuperQuad Pro Am: Greg Gee (No. 10 Fox Shox/Honda)
- A Class: Eddie Degeneffe (No. 40 Janssen
Motorsports/Honda)
- B Class: Randy Richman (No. 40 Honda)
- C Class: Mike Hennings (No. 424 Hellbound
Racing/Yamaha)
- Women A: Angela Butler (No. 1 LoneStar Racing/Honda)
- Women B/C: Michelle Suciu (No. 5 Wheelz
Up Racing/Suzuki)
- 16-24: Greg Gee (No. 10 Fox Shox/Honda)
- Plus 25: Dane Heilman (No. 07 JPMX/Honda)
- Plus 35: Randy Hurst (No. 50 RH Aluminum/Honda)
- Open Amateur: Andrew Pruzinsky (No. 14 Lost
Creek Cycles/Suzuki)
- Production Lites: Cody Janssen (No. 25 Janssen
Motorsports/Honda)
- 0-50cc Limted Auto Clutch CVT 4-6: Jordan
Digby (No. 88 OMF Wheels/DRR)
- 0-50cc Production Auto Clutch 6-8: Trevor
Miller (No. 59 Millmark Construction/Cobra)
- 51-70cc Production Auto Clutch 6-11: Nicholas
Gennusa (No. 15 Zebu Forno Bakery and Cafe/Honda
and Cobra)
- 0-70cc Shifter 6-11: David Nevrotski (No.
24 Rath Racing/JB & Cobra)
- 71-90cc 2 Stroke, 75-125cc 4 Stroke 8-11:
Brian Kincfogel (No. 106 Janssen Motorsports/Honda)
- 71-90cc 2 Stroke, 75-125cc 4 Stroke Production
12-15: Aaron Beer (No. 707 Pittman Racing/Cobra)
- 90cc Production CVT Belt Drive 8-15: Alex
Kersey (No. 321 RC Motorsports/DRR)
- 75-125cc 4 Stroke Production 8-15: Zakary
Burke (No. 711 The Preowned Outlet/Honda)
- 90 2 Stroke Modified 8-12: Jesse Skvarek
(No. 32 Kymco USA/Kymco and Fischer)
- Supermini: Jeffrey Rastrelli (No. 28 Hetrick
Racing/Honda)
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The next race for the PowerSports ATV Tour is the
season finale, scheduled for Sept. 15-16 at Field
of Dreams in Boswell, Pa.
