Wienen and Borich Sweep up at Daniel Boone
LONDON, Ky. (June 17, 2007) -- Chad Wienen out-muscled the SuperQuad Pro 450 competition and Chris Borich survived a wild QuadTerrain contest during the second round of competition Sunday. The event, the Blue Ridge Open Championship, was held at Daniel Boone Motocross Park.
The race will be telecast on ESPN2 on Saturday, July 21 at noon EDT.
Wienen (No. 44 Team Rockstar, MSR, Pro Taper, Yoshimura/Suzuki) showed his conditioning over the several weeks worked, as he followed John Natalie, Jr. (No. 13 Maxxis, Elka/Honda) for much of the race before pouncing, taking the lead late and winning his second race of the weekend. Following Wienen past Natalie were his teammates Dustin Wimmer (No. 191 MSR, Pro Taper, Yoshimura/Suzuki) and Doug Gust (No. 55 Team Rockstar, MSR, Pro Taper, Yoshimura/Suzuki), making for a podium sweep by Suzuki.
"We spent the last few weeks at (Race Team Coordinator) Jeremiah Jones' place training for this event," explained Wienen. "I learned a lot from the track, and it also helped me with my conditioning.
"I really think it came down to conditioning today," added Wienen. "The heat made it very difficult."
Harold Goodman (No. 708 Houser Racing/Honda) won the 1,000 QUAD Magazine Holeshot award.
Borich (No. 2 Warnert Racing/Can-Am) took the holeshot at the beginning of the QuadTerrain Pro Stock final, and wasn't headed. He led a Can-Am sweep of the podium, ahead of Chris Bithell (No. 6 Warnert Racing/Can-Am) and Scott Kilby (No. 207 Warnert Racing/Can-Am).
"It's great to lead the sweep for Can-Am," said Borich of his second WPSA victory of the season. "Warnert Racing, Can-Am, and my entire crew have just done a fabulous job getting my bike ready. It was perfect right out of the gate."
Borich also won the Holeshot Technologies Rock'n'Roll Award, worth $1,000, for exiting the QuadTerrain course's rock section first.
The winners of the $500 ATVSource.com Fastest Mover Awards, given in both Pro classes to the riders who move up the most positions from qualifying, went to Adam Vaughn (No. 83 Warnert Racing/Can-Am) and Richard Pelchat (No. 46 Yamaha Motor Canada/Yamaha).
Other winners during the weekend were:
SuperQuad Pro-Am: Cody Miller (No. 22 Pep/Yamaha)
A Class: Chris Bowen (No. 6 Fox Shox/Suzuki)
B Class: Houston Lowder (No. 701 L&J Cycles/Yamaha)
C Class: Danny Cooper (No. 198 Kellogg's/Honda)
Women A: Michelle Natalie (No. 13 Maxxis, Elka/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: Adam Warren (No. 557 Ace PowerSports/Suzuki)
Production Lites: Cody Janssen (No. 25 Janssen Motorsports/Honda)
0-50cc Limited 4-6: Jordan Digby (No. 88 OMF Wheels/DRR)
0-50cc Production 6-8: Kyle Stuckey (No. 56 Pittman Racing/Cobra)
51-70 Production 6-11: Nicholas Gennusa (No. 15 Zebu Forno & Cafe/Honda Cobra)
0-70cc Shifter 6-11: Samuel Rowe (No. 38 Janssen Motorsports/Honda Cobra)
71-90, 75-125 8-11: Nicholas Gennusa (No. 15 Zebu Forno & Cafe/Honda Cobra)
71-90, 75-125 12-15: Turner Holderfield (No. 8 Honda)
90cc Production 8-15: Colby Brake (No. 862 VPE/Kasea)
75-125 8-15: Grantt Darnell (No. 128 Scott Cain Racing/Honda)
90, 125 Modified 8-15: Dallas Tapscott (No. 48 Hetrick Racing/Honda)
Supermini: Joel Hetrick (No. 88 Hetrick Racing/JB Mod)
Results are available at www.PowerSportsTour.com.
The next race for the PowerSports ATV Tour, the GBC Virginia National, is scheduled from June 29 to July 1 at Virginia Motorsports Park in Petersburg, Va.
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The PowerSports ATV Tour is North America's premier professional ATV racing circuit, featuring QuadMX, QuadTerrain and SuperSport Pro series action as well as more than 20 amateur classes for adults, women and children. The Tour is sanctioned by the World PowerSports Association, North America's most respected snowmobile and ATV sanctioning body, and a promoter of ATV and snowmobile racing on both the regional and national level. For more information, please visit www.PowerSportsTour.com.