Racing at Priest Lake was awesome!!! The track was very smooth ice that held up the whole weekend. Racing organization was very good!
Can you believed 256 entries!!!
Saturday we qualified in some of the classes we entered but set up was off so we spent HOURS working on the sleds Saturday night...
Sunday we had not won a race, a second in Women's Stock 340, and a respectable 4th place finish in Stock 340 (almost 40 entries). We figured our best chance to take a win was in Women 440 as Kolbie's 440 was rockin! Janet's 440 had the CDI unit out and part of the thrashing we did Saturday night was changing the suspension out of Janet's non-running 440 into Kolbies 440. Janet was stuck racing her 340 in the 440 class.
After a couple of wrecks, Kolbie was jumping into the lead after each restart... then her GoPro caught this in turn 3...of the sled and Kolbie sliding on her back off the sled!!!!
Kolbie slid across the track and the sled stayed up right ending up on the snow berm. Not too far from where I was standing. Race was red flagged. With help got the sled back on the track, Kolbie was okay and at the re-start per the rules, Kolbie was started a few sleds back from everyone else.
Re-start
Turn one she got past two, but is stuck behind her grandma (127)
Back straight coming into turn 3 (where she crashed) and she has her grandma and two others ahead of her...
she comes in HOT into turn 3, bobbles, and she is almost overtaken, then turns on the gas and powers out of turn 4
I had made steering and clutch changes and these changes are really paying off! Kolbie gets back into the gas passes the white Yamaha, her grandmother (127) and the black Exciter on her right... one more sled to chase down, but only a couple of laps to go!
Final lap and coming down the back straight away Kolbie finally catches the leader (on a Kawasaki 340)... Kolbie runs deep into turn 3, kicks her sled sideways
In turn 4 they are bumping and trading paint... the finish line is in sight!!! The 340 Kawasaki is giving it all to our Yamaha 440, but the 440 has just a little more as both sleds come out of turn 4!
YES!!! Kolbie pulls ahead and takes the checkered!!!
Thanks Woody's, Mac's Cycle, Off Road Vixens