Battle on the Beach
Taylor Robers would win the War with a 1-1 result giving him the 1st Place finish overall.
Day 1: Story Photos by: Joe Colombero
Taylor Robert took his time working his way to the front, but he was there when it counted, at the checkered flag, to win his first WORCS race of the season. Bobby Garrison took second place honors with Kyle Summers third.
Destry Abbott grabbed the holeshot on the dead- engine start, but he was quickly shouldered aside by Kurt Caselli who led for the first lap. Caselli and KTM teammate Mike Brown quickly pulled away with Gary Sutherlin in third. Former 2-time Hav- asau winner Ricky Dietrich was mired at the back of the pack, but quickly started moving forward.
Brown took over the lead on lap two displacing Caselli and now they were both being pursued by Kyle Sum- mers and Taylor Robert. Dietrich had moved into 10th following the charge of Garrison. Sutherlin tangled with Justin Soule and both riders went down, drop- ping out of the top five.
30 minutes into the hour-long race Dietrich took over the lead with Garrison and Robert on his tail. Then Di- etrich started to smoke having broken a case on one of the many rocks. He pulled off and took a DNF for the day. Garrison took over and tried to gap Robert, but it appeared Robert had decided it was his turn to win as he made the pass and pulled away. Summers moved by the KTM’s of Brown and Caselli, but he was being hounded by Soule who was hungry for his first podium of 2011. With minutes to go Soule crashed yet again and gave up his chance to catch Summers.
They finished with Robert taking the win, Garrison second, Summers third, Caselli fourth, Brown fifth, Soule sixth, Robby Bell seventh, Colton Udall eighth, Jamie Lanza ninth, Ryan Abbatoye 10th. Abbott, who got the holeshot finished 11th, Dietrich took a DNF as did former WORCS Champion Bobby Bonds.
Destry Abbott #14 and & Kurt Caselli #1, battle for the holeshot, Abbott would win the battle but Caselli would win the lead.
“I finally won one,” said Robert. “It feels good to get it out of the way and take one of these home. It was awesome; I had battles with everybody coming up. It was a fun race. The track got super rough, but the rougher it got the smoother I felt. It feels good to get a win.”
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