Had my first XC race yesterday staged in Hixton Wisconsin.
A Class - about 8 people
B Class - about 10 people
C Class - about 15 people
Utility Class - 5
40+ - 4
It was a HUGE turnout from what I was gathering from multiple people runnin the place it sounds like they had about double what they had expected to show.
A class started. 1 min later B Class went.. And so on.
It was a dead start race. I was about the 6th or 7th off the line rappy didnt fire right away
We took off. First part of the track was a section of motocross track. 3 sets of doubles and then 3 jumps that there wasn't anough room to clear totally so you had to kind of pussy foot over them.
2nd part of the track was mainly down hill, winding twisting and turning through the woods. Lots of big ass rocks all over. The precision honestly saved my life out there.
3rd and last part was back up hill. Winding through a tamrack woods. Trees were about 49-50" apart. It was TIIIIIIGHT gettin the rappy through. Had a few trees stop me. It winded out to a small clearing where they had the tent and scanned our barcode and we were off again back into the woods. I cant get confirmation but the track was about 6 miles long race lenght was 1:45:00
Freaking awesome. The new tires were out of this world.
My bud Josh racing his 440ex took a corner on the first lap to fast went over the track ran right into a tree from what we can tell, it didn't bend the frame, but he completely crushed his bumper, and throughout the race he had a lot of electrical gremlins. not sure why though.
Once I get the pictures I'll post them up. It was a blast and I'll be doing it again!!!
I did get a couple REALLY good passes in. We were on the first part of the track around the 4th or 5th lap, and there were 2 guys on YFZ's. As we got to the top its a hairpin corner, I was on the inside and kicked them both out of the way to take them over. They didn't care to much about going off the track. and instead of taking a really long corner down a hill, I went straight down the hill and passed 3 people!! I can't wait for the next one!