Battling through heavy dust and slower traffic we found ourselves in a battle with Johnny Angel. I was able to real Johnny back in and as I was going for the pass a huge rock was in my line. The impact shot us off course and we broke a wheel. Sheldon Stowell jumped out and made quick work of the tire change. After running hard for a few miles we heard something else let go. A quick inspection reveled our connecting rod for the sway bar broke. We did not have any extra parts with us so we pushed on to pit 3. My crew pulled the broken parts off the RZR. They were going to fix them and reinstall at pit 4. The drive between pit 3 and 4 sucked without the sway bar.
The section between pit 11 and 12 is all sand whoops was a high speed elevated wash road that we could put the hammer down and hit over 80MPH. Pit 12 where we stopped for fuel and car check. Coming out of pit 12 was the worst loose rock terrain I have ever driven in. It was a good 4 miles of loose shale sharp rocks that our ITP tires went through without a single puncture. By far the sharpest and worst rocks I have ever raced through. Just about 2 miles outside of pit 13 on a 6 mile long silt straight we were unfortunately caught by the 3rd place trophy truck on course and where given a siren warning and as we went to move off the side of the course contact was made with us pushing us off the cause and to the side cause the car to violently roll several times coming to rest on its wheels. The LSR built chassis held up well and kept us safe. We limped the RZR into pit 13. The damage was too bad for us to continue.
LSR would like to thank all their great sponsors.
