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Here is the race recaps from a few of our drivers that were at WORCS this past weekend at Glen Helen. We had 2 drivers out there for us Kyle Melville and Tim Wyatt.
Kyle ran the series last year and has plans to continue running the full series, it was Tim’s first time at a WORCS race. If you didn’t know Tim is from GA and usually runs the UTV Rally Raid and the Highland Park SC series. Tim is going to be out for WORCS Rd 2 at Primm, then he’ll be heading back home, unless he changes his mind and runs the full series! Thanks guys and good job out there!

Here is a quick review of events from #661 Kyle Melville.

Last weekend was the first round of the WORCS series held in San Bernardino, CA at the famous Glen Helen Raceway. Friday brought clear skies and made for one of the best practice days I have ever had. I was able to get all the jumps down that the Class 1′s were doing and running with them. However, Friday night would quickly change all lines and ideas about the following days race. It poured from midnight Friday night until around 1PM on Saturday. This completely flooded the track and left officials with no choice but to change the course in multiple spots; meaning, all previous days’ practice was useless. We took off the line and headed to the infamous Taladega where most of us were slipping and sliding, bumping and braking. As we neared the end of the first lap I made my move on two other drivers and moved into the third place position. By the third lap, I had worked my way up in to first place with many of the other racers being sidelined due to part failure or just plain being stuck. As we neared the end of the race, two Kawasaki Teryxs passed me. I fought with all I had to get them back but couldn’t make it happen. So, for the first round of the year, we took a podium finish in the 3rd spot. Many racers that have come to this series from the Lucas series will quickly learn this is not all about speed right off the drop of the flag. The WORCS series is a test of a true race UTV and the driver in itself. We can all haul butt all over the place, but its about being able to learn the limits of the vehicle. As we head in to Round 2 in Primm, NV, we will be making slight changes and try to aim for a better podium position. This track will be a true test of man and car as it is one of the roughest of all courses in the series. I’d like to thank all my sponsors for all they did to help us get ready for this year: Darin @ All Valley Carburetors, Go Racer Tech, Dragonfire Racing, ITP Tires, Triumph Motorsports, DJ Safety, EPI Performance, Christy McGuffin Photography, and Quad Tech.

And here is #55 Tim Wyatt’s weekend in review.

We rolled the XP900 out of the trailer on friday morning for the first practice at Glen Helen round 1 not knowing what to expect. The track looked fast and the jumps looked huge. The Racer Tech A arms matched with the Elka Stage 4 shocks and Motosport Alloys tires and wheels was hooked up. I was hitting all the jumps and felt confident for saturdays race. About 3 am saturday morning the rain started coming down and the flooding began. Rain finally stop about 2pm that afternoon but the track damage was already done. Mud fest here we go. This was going to be a race of survival. I could not be happier with the way we ran and our results at Glen helen. We had over heating problems, no 4 wheel drive and a few driver errors and ended up with a 14th place finish. This is a great start to our 2012 season and something we can build on. Thank you to all our sponsors Racer Tech, Elka Suspension, Motosport alloys, Efx Tires, Simpson, and Dragonfire.

Racer Tech would like to welcome back Tim Wyatt #55 with his new RZR XP900 to the Team Racer Tech crew for the upcoming 2012 season! Tim has been racing and working close with us for some time now on new developments for some of the newest racing products.

Tim will be running our new and improved RXP High Clearance Front Arm Kit, which is race ready OEM replacement with a Racer Tech tweak to them. Tim stated, “I was amazed at how easy the RZR steered and handled after the arms went on! It’s another step up from Polaris’ 2012 improvements to the front geometry.” We’ve also supplied him with a one-off “Wyatt Special” custom cage, HD Radius Rods and HD Tie-rods. With more releases coming from Racer Tech for the RZR XP 900 every month now this RZR is sure to be an excellent example of just how far Racer Tech can take racers in their quest for the podium.

We have been working hard with Elka Suspension to fine tune a set of shocks to work perfectly with our suspensions for the RZR XP900. Elka has been working with us at Racer Tech for years and has never failed to provide us with the best shocks available.

Tim has big plans for 2012 racing season. After starting off on the west coast in the WORCS Series round 1 and 2 , Tim will be attending the King of the Hammers race and then be coming back to the southeast to race in the UTVRR series, Durham Town Super X Series , and the Highland Park Short Course Series, where he Finished 1st overall in points this past year in the series debut in the 900cc class. Tim also plans on making it to some other races throughout the year such as the Heartland Challenge and the King of the Mountain Race and the Supercross Montreal if the schedule will allow.

Since the beginning of his working relationship with Racer Tech, Tim has since started his own shop in Georgia. Wyatt Racing Products is an authorized dealer for the full line of Racer Tech products. Tim has the knowledge, experience and ability to install all of our products in house but also work with each customer to get them what they need. From a home-base closer to the southeast racing action Tim can work with Racer Tech to further assist the rapidly expanding UTV racing community in this region of the United States. Wyatt Racing Products is based out of Canton, GA where Tim does full builds to simple installs.

We really enjoyed working together with Tim on this build to get him ready for this upcoming season. We look forward to a great year of racing and wish him the best of luck.

Here’s a quick race report from Justin Fleming #58 of Team Racer Tech on our experience at the series finale of UTVRR 2011!

This was my 2nd time at the UTV rally raid series. I had finished 2nd in the Ironman unlimited class my first race. I went into this race hoping to better that finish by coming out with 1st place this time. Prior to the weekend of the next race we didn’t know if we were going to make it because of my crash at the prior Rally Raid in which I dropped into a ditch and bent my frame slightly and bent my right side stock a-arms. Luckily Racer-Tech pulled through for me and got me a set of arms in time for the race. I got the a-arms on and found the right side knuckle had also bent but we couldn’t get the parts in time so we just aligned it as well as possible and raced.

Saturday we got to the race and I got to meet up with Tony who was going to be my passenger for the race. I believe it really took some guts to climb into the seat with me being as he had never met me and had only heard my voice one time on the phone the rest of our communication had been through email and text messages but he had the guts to go for it. The weather was really good which was making me feel confident about the race but when we drew our start positions we drew out on the 5th row which didn’t seem great to me because I was thinking we would have to work our way through a lot of the field but once the race got underway we got into the woods and was running a good pace. About 3 miles in I came into a corner a little too tight and caught the inside of the turn and rolled my UTV at this point I’m upside down thinking I’ve ruined my race 3 miles in but, luckily we rolled and landed back on all 4 wheels facing the right direction of the track. As soon as I realized we were back on all 4 wheels again I gunned it, and did a quick steering check everything seemed good so I got back into the race. Not long after the roll we had caught back up to more of the drivers that had started in front of us. We started working our way threw drivers, which we had been doing for 4 laps, then made our pit-stop. We got in and out of the pit pretty smooth then got back into the race. Everything went really smooth as we raced into the dark. We made a second pit-stop on the beginning of the 9th lap which also went smoothly at this time we knew we were in the lead but had no clue by how far while we were in the pit two machines passed us and were moving a good pace I stayed in the pits a little longer to top my fuel off. I was thinking these guys were in my class so I took off trying to catch up Because I knew they would be a good bit ahead so I went into the woods really hanging it out and made a few small mistakes then Tony was telling me just calm down n that we had it so I took his advise and settled back into my pace and on the 11th lap I got back around them, & on the last lap I got a little excited again and started hanging it out and we got what I feel was a fast lap. We had about a half a mile from the finish line and came up on 2 guys that were really moving on so I started really hanging it out and trying to get around but didn’t get any chances to pass so as we passed the finish I was thinking we was in 3rd so we went back to the trailer thinking we had got 3rd and we discovered we had broken a sway bar link and flat rear tire. Got to love tire-balls! I hadn’t even realized it. But a little later we were informed that we had won by a whole lap and were about to lap 2 people we had caught just before the finish line. So we came out of the race very happy with the win.

I’m really glad to be part of team Racer-Tech and I’m hoping to have a great season next year in Rally Raid and GNCC series. I was out of GNCC most of last season due to breakdowns of a machine that had been raced for 3 years but we purchases a new xp900 and with the help of Race-Tech and other sponsors we should be able to have a winning machine by the start of the season. I’m looking forward to working closely with Racer-Tech in there development of my GNCC setup. This will be the first time in GNCC that I will have a perfect machine. My goals are to put the Racer-Tech xp900 on top step of the podium and hopefully bring home a championship. I’m looking forward to this coming season. Lastly I want to thank all my sponsors Tower-Works, Rugged Race Radios, ATR Performance, Lincoln Electric Welders, and Racer-Tech.

Justin Fleming #58

Congratulations Justin on your dominating performance at Rally Raid we look forward to good year! Glad to have you on the team!

Check out this video submitted to us by UTVreport.com. Racer Tech sponsored racers Jim Tsakatos and Tim Wyatt from Georgia made the trip to North Carolina to clean house in the ECORS UTV division over the weekend of March 12-13. Jim (#23) took 1st place running the Racer Tech RZR S Replacement Suspension System and Tim (#5) took 2nd place after a hard crash that ultimately claimed his chassis but hardly scratched his Racer Tech RZ6 Suspension System. Tim was also running a production prototype of our new RZR SQS (Steering Quickener System) we will be releasing this spring. Congrats guys, nice work!

Team Racer Tech is itching to get back on the track. I have been talking with the guys from around the country and just trying to get everything ready for the up and coming year. Our first race of the year is a UTV Rally Raid event on Feb. 19 at Durham Town Plantation. This is just one of the series that our team is involved in. We also run in the GNCC, TREC, Bonneville, and Iowa series to name a few. It’s looking to be a good year and got a few new guys on the team this year. A few for starters is Tim Wyatt for GA. he started racing last year and we meet threw another one of our sponsored racers Jim from AL. They were running in the southeast series. He currently runs in the super stock class. With his new Racer Tech + 6 long travel kit and a few other goodies from us, his RZR is ready to rip it up on the track. We will keep you posted on all our races we attend. Here is a schedule of a few races we have coming up.

GNCC Series Schedule
March 12 – March 13 2011 Rd 2 – The General Aonia Pass,GA
April 9 – April 10 2011 Rd 4 – Big Buck Union, SC
May 14 – May 15 2011 Rd 6 – Indy 100 Gosport, IN
May 28 – May 29 2011 Rd 7 – Rock Run Altoona, PA
October 8 – October 9 2011 Rd 12 – Power Line Park St. Clairsville, OH
October 22 – October 23 2011 Rd 13 – The Ironman Crawfordsville, IN
US-27 Motorsports Michigan Mud Nationals
June 16-18
Sept. 16-17

I will try and keep you up to date on everything that going on this summer in racing. Check back with us as I’m still waiting for a few more schedules to be released.

Last weekend I went down to Durham Town Plantation (DTP), near Atlanta, GA for the first UTV Rally Raid. It was a new style format of racing which weren’t familiar with up here in MI. We usually run alot of short course’s or GNCC style racing. But this new UTV Rally Raid style in a 4 hour Iron man or team event. With 2 hours day light and 2 hours in to the night. We had the option to switch up drivers and vehicles throughout the race whenever needed. Myself and Jim Tsokatos one of our sponsored racers from Alabama met up down there to check out the action and run it. Jim choose to do it ironman and drive the entire 4 hours. I had the privilege to ride along with him.

All I can say is it was one of the best events I’ve seen on this side of the country. There’s nothing else like it! The track was set just for UTV’s not too tight where you run the risk of hitting trees and still having room to pass each other. It’s a fast course and was 10.5 mile a lap! There was no serious crashes or any UTV’s destroyed during the race. There was a good turn out also. I think there were 9 teams running the event and 4 guys choose to ironman it. When the dust settled, we finished 1st in the in the mod class using our Racer Tech +5 suspension.

I have to thank DTP for host the event and SouthEastSxS.com for putting all together! I can’t wait for the next one which is Feb. 19. We also will be sponsoring the series in 2011. Hope to see you all out there again and pass the word along to your friends. It’s definitely a great time! Heres some pics and a video of the race. Any feed back is welcome and appreciated. Thanks Guys!

Carlisle, IA – 8-21-2010 – At the 3rd Annual GBC Heartland Challenge, Brandon Burns muscled his way to a class win using a Racer Tech RZ3 +3″ Mid Travel Suspension System. Brandon races in the 850 Modified class but was able to beat out even the open class machines with his setup! Congratulations to Brandon. For more information on this race click HERE.

The Heartland Challenge is a Hair Scramble style race held every year in Iowa. The main entries are ATV’s but UTV’s are quickly becoming a large group. The UTV portion of the race is a 4 hour long heat with combined classes. There is also a Mini RZR class which runs a 1 hour endurance race for the young racers. This race is becoming known as one of the premier endurance races in the U.S. It takes a very well build and prepared machine to finish this race or even more to win. Brandon uses a Racer Tech FB2 Rigid Mount Front Bumper along with the Racer Tech Rigid Mount Nerf Bars for the ultimate in protection. The suspension kit used on his RZR is an off-the-shelf bolt-on RZ3 Mid Travel Kit. These parts give the ultimate strength and protection and performance Brandon needs to get to the front of the pack. Some serious talent and perseverance is what helped him win.

We will be heading down to the Badlands this weekend in Attica, In. for the TREC racing series. We had a good turn out for the last one and I’ve talk to a few others that plan on being there. It should be a good turn out and the weather should be great. I will be riding this race with Kevin Spangler in his 09 Teryx. Hope to see everyone out the and look forward to a good race. For more info on the race rules and application go to www.badlandsoffroad.com.

Adam Jensen 1st place 2010 Wendover 250- May 1, 2010

Adam Jensen 1st place 2009 Wendover 250-September 19, 2009