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KOLE HENSLEE RACE REPORT
DATE: JULY 25 2010
EVENT: ROUND 7 MISSOURI HARE SCRAMBLE
CHAMPIONSHIP
LOCATION: SAYERSBROOK BISON RANCH, POTOSI, MO.
RESULT: OVERALL WINNER
Dad and I left around 5:30 sunday morning to go
pick up our traveling friends Allen and Caleb Haynes. We got loaded
and headed out of Springfield around 6 AM for the 3 hour drive to
Potosi. It was actually cloudy and cooler out which felt really nice
compared to what we have had, it has been extremely hot hear lately.
We pulled in to this new race facility and was really shocked, this
place was a landscaped Bison ranch with its own private lake, cabins
etc. really beautiful setting. This was the first race ever on the
property, so no one really knew what to expect, we pulled in and got
set up for a day of racing, by now the sun burned through the clouds
and it got really hot and humid. Fortunately they got some rain and
the trail conditions should be near perfect. Caleb and I got geared
up and went out on a practice lap, it was really sketchy, very rocky
and technical which is to my liking. the course was 10.4 miles long,
as tight as it was I figured it to be a 4 lap race.
RACE: I went to the start and picked me a good
line, I was right in the middle of Steve Leivan, and Caleb Wohletz,
#1 and #2 guys of the series last year. When the start board dropped
I had a pretty decent start going into the woods in 4th behind
Wohletz, Lars Valin had the lead with the flying Aussie Mick
Kirkness in 2nd, Wohletz 3rd, I was 4th and Leivan was behind me. We
had completed almost a lap, at the very end of the loop was a "hard"
section and a "easy" alternate. Wohletz chose the easy alternate so
I went up the wall ( a giant rock bluff) that was pretty intense, I
was able to get around Wohletz for 3rd position before the end of
lap 1. On lap 2 I caught up to Mick Kirkness, who by the way is a
national level flat track racer, and the guy can flat ride in the
trees as well, it was awesome following him on the grass track, he
is not afraid to kick it sideways. He let me by after a ways and I
caught up to Lars Valin (Six day club team rider), I finally pushed
him into a mistake in a creek bed and got around him and was able to
hold the lead all the way to the end, after I got around Lars I put
my head down and was able to get away a bit and not have the
pressure on me, at the end of the day I earned my 3rd overall for
the year.
I want to thank Jeremy Wisecup for the awesome
pictures.
Thanks for all the help from my sponsors: LUCAS
OIL, ENDURO ENGINEERING, MOOSE RACING, OZARK FOAM INSEALATORS, TBT
SUSPENSION (TERRY BRUMLEY), CLOCKWORKS KTM, 417 POWERSPORTS KTM,
BRIDGESTONE, MOM AND DAD.
NEXT RACE: Steve Leivan and I are headed to
Millville, Minnesota for the OMA race next weekend.
