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Marcos Ambrose won Monday’s Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen. The win was Ambrose’s first in the Cup series. Ambrose is now in his second full season of Sprint Cup competition, moving up from the Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series in the last 5 years. Ambrose is a 2-time V8 Supercar Champion who came to the US from Tasmania. Ambrose is the first Aussie to win a Sprint Cup event.
Marcos Ambrose led the most laps on Monday but had to pass Brad Keselowski and Kyle Busch with 2 laps to go in order to seal the victory. The Australian driver has won 3 events at Watkins Glen in the NASCAR Nationwide Series as well as just missing a Cup win at Sonoma in 2010. The very eventful race at Watkins Glen saw 2 major wrecks and a scuffle between Boris Said and Greg Biffle at the end of the race. As always, the NASCAR drivers provided a great show on a road course.
Ok, lets get back to dirt bike gear.
Sebastian Vettel has been absolutely dominant after 2 races inFormula 1. The F1 series has been to Australia and Malaysia and the result was the same both weeks. Vettel on the pole, Vettel on the top step of the podium.
Vettel won at Malaysia without the use of his KERS for the majority of the event. It may be another dominate weekend if the Red Bull Team can work out the bugs in their KERS for this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix.
Although Formula 1 is the furthest thing from motocross helmets and off road racing, its still just too cool to ignore.
Rally and Drift stand out Tanner Foust is becoming one of the most popular spokesman for motorsports today. Foust is on the cutting edge of the sport by being part of some of the newest and most exciting motorsports. Foust is a previous Formula Drift Champion and a Super Rally competitor. Foust has become an analyst on the excitement level of racing’s top divisions and how to engage the 18-35 crowd into motorsports.
Tanner Foust is also the host for multiple Speed Channel TV shows, and appeared on Wind Tunnel this week. Tanner is like Ryan Seacrest, he has 1000 jobs and does them all pretty well. Foust will be looking for X Games Gold once again this summer when the best extreme sports athletes compete for world recognition. 2011 will be a big year for Foust, look for Tanner and his off road helmets at a Rally course near you.
Congratulations to the youngest winner of the Daytona 500 ever, Trevor Bayne. The Twenty year old drove smart and fast through speedweeks and came out on top.
Dreams can come true, even after losing your ride mid-season. Bayne was let go by Michael Waltrip Racing in 2010 to make room for Travis Pastrana. Bayne was quickly picked up by Roush Fenway Racing for the Nationwide Series, and by the Wood Brothers in Sprint Cup.
Even though we spend most of our time talking about dirt bike gear and the connection that today’s best driver have with off road racing, today we talk about a stock car racer who always was a stock car racer. Great race Mr. Daytona 500 champion!
Midget ace Bryan Clauson won Tuesday Night’s qualifying main event for the 2011 Chili Bowl Nationals. Clauson beat out pole sitter Michael Pickens from New Zealand for the win.
The 65 car field was cut down to just 24 main event starters after a full night of action on the Tulsa indoor track. Clauson, Pickens, and Jon Stanbrough have locked themselves into the A-feature on Saturday night. All others will go through the alphabet soup on Saturday trying to grab one of the remaining start positions in Saturday’s A-feature.
Wednesday’s qualifying action includes former NASCAR Sprint Cup driver and USAC triple champion J.J Yeley, midget racer Bobby East, past Chili Bowl winner Damion Gardner, Kasey Kahne protege Brad Sweet, and NASCAR/USAC Red Bull racer Cole Whitt. Look for Wednesday results tomorrow night on offroadaccessoryreview.com and probikehelmets.com facebook page.
Don’t worry 2 wheel fans, the dirt bike helmets will be back on this weekend in Pheonix Arizona.
Today’s stage was the same route for all 4 classes. This 423 kilometer stage is unlike the previous WRC style stages in Argentina. No roads means navigation and true off road driving ability is of high importance.
Stephane Peterhansel took the stage win in the cars. A navigation error by Red Bull drivers Sainz and Al-Attiyah allowed Peterhansel to run away with the stage. The Chile stages will help Peterhansel gain time overall on the two Red Bull WRC specialists. Al-Attiyah was second on the stage by 1:24 and Sainz in third by 3:15. Sainz holds on to the overall lead by over 2 minutes. The trio of drivers are within 3 minutes of each other going into stage 6. De Villiers in fourth place is over 20 minutes out of the lead.
Robby Gordon has retired his Hummer from the event on stage 4. Gordon was disqualified due to his late arrival to the start. Gordon did run stage 4 in the dark but was later informed by the ASO that he was disqualified. The second Speed Energy Hummer is still in the event driven by Eliseo Salazar.
New winner on the bikes relegate Coma and Despres to fourth and fifth on the stage. Portuguese rider Paulo Goncalves took the stage win by over 2 minutes. Francisco Lopez thought he won the stage until officials adjusted Goncalves’ time for assisting downed rider Olivier Pain. Coma now leads Despres in the overall standings by 10 minutes. Goncalves and Lopez are third and fourth. All riders will bring their dirt bike gear to the start gate for tomorrow’s stage 6 including Americans Joanh Street and Quinn Cody.
Today’s Dakar stage saw high drama for some of the rally’s top contenders. The bikes and cars saw some key players have problems.
However, Carlos Sainz stayed on pace and won today’s special stage and extendedhis overall lead. Cyril Depres also stayed on pace and won stage 2. Depres was also credited with the victory in stage 1 as Ruben Faria was assessed a time penalty for speeding on the connection route.
The biggest change among the leaders was in the trucks. Vladimir Chagin lost the overall lead to Firdaus Kabirov also driving a Kamaz. A rare mistake by Chagin caused his to lose 6 minutes to the new leader. Chagin now trails Kabirov by 22 seconds overall.
The Americans in the car class of the event also experienced troubles on stage 2. Mark Miller in the Red Bull VW crashed early in the stage but was able to continue. Miller had to stop again later in the stage for 17 minutes of repairs to his battered VW. Miller is now 56 minutes behind Sainz overall in 16th place. Robby Gordon also had mechanical issues that cost him 35 minutes on repairs. Gordon was able to continue but is now a devastating 67 minutes behind Carlos Sainz in the overall standings in 21st place.
American bike racer Jonah Street brought his dirt bike gear across the finish in 7th place holding on to 7th overall behind Depres by just over 10 minutes.
Tomorrow’s route will start in San Miguel and end in San Salvador.
See real time scoring and updates on Dakar.com, daily summaries on Versus, and daily updates here on offroadaccessoryreview.com.
Robby Gordon and the Speed Energy Chevy finished 2nd in the 43rd running of the SCORE Tecate Baja 1000. Gordon had a problem with the drive shaft which delayed the team by about 15 minutes. Overall margin of victory for Gustavo Vildolsola Jr in the Red Bull truck was 22 minutes.
Vildolsola Jr and Sr became the first Mexicans to win the Baja 1000. The Vildolsola team also beat all the 2 wheel racers overall. This is only the 7th time in Baja 1000 history that the 4 wheel winner’s time beat the 2 wheel winner’s time.
Kendall Norman and Quinn Cody won the 2 wheel overall in dominating fashion. The 2 won on a Honda 450 in 19 hours and 22 minutes. Both riders have won the event before and Honda has now won the event a total of 21 times.
19 hours in the desert must be pretty hard on a pair of motocross boots! Congratulations to all winners.
The 2011 edition of the Dakar Rally in just a few months away. This once a year event draws riders and drivers from all over the world. In 2011 the rally will again be held in South America for the third year in a row.
200 atv and dirt bike riders have already signed up for the event. Riders who have not registered now have to hope someone drops out of their entry before anyone else can get in. 2011 entry cap for motorbikes is 200 entries.
Any part of a rider’s gear and equipment that survives this event has truly been tested. Enduro Jackets, and off road riding boots will be lucky to make it out of this event in one piece.
2011 Dakar Rally countdown begins. Stayed tuned for more information on the 2011 edition of the Dakar.
There are plenty of options to help keep all of your tools organized at the track. Whether you have a tool box, or a tool bag organization is key.
It is a good idea to keep your tools close by when going on an all day ride. Sometimes carrying the basics in your enduro jacket is just not enough. One of the best motocross accessories on the market right now is this Axo tool bag. This tool bag has multiple sections to keep tools organized. Wrenches and small replacement parts can be easily kept when using this bag. The Axo tool bag also has an specific space to keep a map dry and flat. Any trail rider or enduro participant will want to add this item to their wish list.