Oil City, PA / August 17, 2010 – Some people are wired to become doctors, lawyers, or Indian chiefs when they grow up. Joel Hetrick of Hetrick Racing is not one of those people. Schooled from an early age to prove that he is cut out of a different cloth, Hetrick is poised to become a legendary ATV racer of the utmost caliber.
Elka Suspension representatives were on site to help all Elka-equipped racers and would like to thank Brice and his team from PSR-Quad for their incredible support and generosity. Their efforts paid off and helped put Romain and his teammates on top of the podium.
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Round six of the 2010 Yamaha/ITP Quadcross series was held at Glen Helen Raceway. We were once again blessed with great weather with the temperatures topping out in the low 90’s. The track layout was exactly the same as round 5 last month, quite a bit more technical than usual as we were still riding most of the USGP layout. My race day was slightly more busy this weekend as I rode both the Production and Open Pro classes. We also had the addition of the crew from Dirt Trax TV in and around our pit. They are a great group of guys and I’m excited to be on a week long “California Adventure” with them as they film for an upcoming episode.
(HAMILTON, Ont. / AUGUST 16, 2010) Steven Nickerson completed his first season in the Amateur Sport Bike class of the Parts Canada Superbike Championship third in the final Championship standings as the 2010 season wrapped up at Atlantic Motorsport Park in Shubenacadie, Aug. 6-8.
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Steven Nickerson picked up second and fifth place finishes in the fourth and fifth rounds of the Amateur Sport Bike class of the Parts Canada Superbike Championship at Mosport International Raceway.
In both 12-lap races around Mosport’s fast and challenging 3.957km road course the rider of the STN Racing / DeWildt Honda Powerhouse Honda CBR600RR was one of the few competitors able to take the fight to series leader and fellow Honda rider Raphael Archambault. In Saturday’s opening race of the doubleheader the Hamilton, Ont. racer finished just 0.105 secs. behind Archambault. On Sunday he again crossed the line right behind Archambault but a five-second penalty for a jump start dropped Nickerson to fifth in the results.
The 15-year-old Nickerson started on the front row for both races. He set the fourth fastest time in Thursday afternoon practice, a 1:28.513, and after Friday qualifying was rained out the Thursday times were used to set the grid for the two races. Nickerson got a poor start on Saturday and found himself seventh entering turn one, but by half distance he had clawed his way up to second and began battling Archambault for the lead. It was a fight between the 2008 Honda CBR125R Challenge champion (Archambault) and the 2009 series titlist (Nickerson).
“I caught up to Raphael and tried some passes but he held his line perfectly and didn’t let me past,” said Nickerson, whose fastest lap of 1:26.390 was slightly better than Archambault’s quickest. “I knew that I would have to make a last lap pass to try and beat him. I tried the outside of corner eight and got beside him and tried to hold my line for [turn] nine, but he got past and I ended up in second place.”
On Sunday Nickerson was at the front from the start and again hounded Archambault relentlessly, turning his fastest lap of the weekend, a 1:26.128.
“I tried some passes but he always regained the lead,” Nickerson explained. “I didn’t know until the end of the race that I had a jump start.” Despite the penalty Nickerson jumped up to third in the Amateur Sport Bike standings with 142 points. Although Archambault has virtually wrapped up the 2010 title, Nickerson is just 18 points behind Jeremie Hade Precourt for second place in the rankings heading into the season ending doubleheader at Atlantic Motorsport Park in Shubenacadie, N.S. Aug. 6-8.
Olympia, WA – MCR/Maxxis Tires’ Beau Baron checked out on the competition at round seven of the 2010 WORCS series to take the Pro ATV win, while Pro-am teammate David Haagsma took the Pro-am win and wrapped up the Pro-am Championship two rounds early.
This past weekend at Straddleline near Olympia, WA was fantastic! The weather was second-to-none and the racing was everything we could have hoped for. Best of all, Beau Baron walked away with it! This result was directly linked to the effort that Doug Roll, Mike Cafro and Beau (as well as the rest of the MCR team) put in before to attain the proper setup for the event. With a narrower Roll Design front end, a 27-hour drive each way 2 weeks before the event to practice and test and a lot of time on the phone between Doug and Mike for spring setups and changes while they were up there… brought a very important and potentially pivotal win from that hard work. Having Factory Yamaha (Dustin Nelson), Polaris (Jerrod McClure), Can-Am (Josh Frederick and Adam McGill) and Suzuki (Chris Borich) that include the top riders from the East coast made the win for Beau even sweeter. Davi Haagsma clinched the Pro-Am title and will be racing Pro at the next event, and Julie Russell won her event and I believe
clinched that as well.
The weekend was considered very successful from the viewpoint of helping racers, and realizing the value that we add at the track for the Elka brand as well as our services. Friday we were slammed all day and could estimate a nearly 13-hour day supporting racers with setups and more. After the events on Sunday, we had racers thanking us for what we are doing at the track for them.
