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NATALIE NIPS WIENEN
FOR FOURTH VICTORY OF 2007;
BORICH HANDS CAN-AM SECOND MANUFACTURERS' TITLE
ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. (Aug. 19, 2007)
-- John Natalie, Jr. won a tight SuperQuad Pro
450 final, and Chris Borich handed Can-Am its
second consecutive Manufacturers' Championship
after winning a wild and muddy QuadTerrain
Challenge final during Sunday's Raceway Park
National at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.
The race was Round 9 of the WPSA PowerSports ATV
Tour.
The races will be telecast on ESPN2 on Sept.
14 at 5 p.m. EDT.
SuperQuad Pro 450
Natalie (No. 13 Elka, Maxxis/Honda) took the
lead early in the event and seemed to have the
race well in hand. That is, until Chad Wienen
(No. 44 Team Rockstar, MSR, Pro Taper,
Yoshimura/Suzuki) moved up to second. Dogging
Natalie during the final laps of the event,
Wienen nearly took the lead in the uphill
section, but Natalie just held him off and went
on to take his fourth victory of the 2007
season.
Unofficially, Natalie pads his lead in the
Riders' Championship. Meanwhile, Suzuki's
domaninance this season showed, as a Suzuki quad
needs only to start the final at the next race
to clinch its second consecutive Manufacturers'
Championship.
"Chad Wienen is just an amazing athelete. He
is in such good shape," said Natalie. "I could
run his pace at the beginning, but at the end I
was just hanging on. I dug deep on the final two
laps and pushed it as hard as I could. Seeing
the white flag gave me that little bit of extra
energy I needed.
"I'm going to go home, train really hard, I'm
going to come out in as good a shape as Wienen
and I'm going to whip his butt," joked Natalie.
"We're going to my home state (Pennsylvania) for
the final race, so I'll have a lot of fans
there. That'll just rev me up. I'm ready to go."
QuadTerrain Challenge
Just as the QuadTerrain Pro Stock final took the
start, a massive rain storm enveloped Raceway
Park, turning the track into a morrass. Borich
(No. 2 Warnert Racing/Can-Cam), as he has five
other times this season, came out on top. Scott
Kilby (No. 207 Warnert Racing/Can-Cam) and
points leader Jesse West (No. 888 West
Racing/Arctic Cat) completed the top three.
"We just had that one bad race with the
mechanical problem. Without that, we probably
would have won all of them," said Borich. "This
Can-Am and my Warnert Racing team have just done
a great job this year.
"We were getting ready to go, and the rain
just started coming down," added Borich. "The
logs and the rocks were unbelievably hard to get
through. It really didn't change my strategy,
though. I tried to get out front early, keep my
momentum going and it worked out today."
Special award winners were:
SuperQuad Pro 450
The QUAD Magazine Holeshot Award ($1,000): Keith
Little (No. 12 Lonestar/Honda)
ATVSource.com Biggest Mover ($500): Rocco Arno,
Jr. (No. 101 Sparks Engines/Honda)
QuadTerrain Pro Stock
Holeshot Technologies Rock'n'Roll Award
($1,000): Kilby
ATVSource.com Biggest Mover ($500): Borich (No.
24 Suzuki)
Other winners during the weekend were:
Pro SuperSport: Kyle Fiebelkorn (No. 11 Jack
Link's/Arctic Cat Prowler)
SuperQuad Pro Am: Greg Gee (No. 10 Fox Shox/Honda)
A Class: Eddie Degeneffe (No. 40 Janssen
Motorsports/Honda)
B Class: Randy Richman (No. 40 Honda)
C Class: Mike Hennings (No. 424 Hellbound
Racing/Yamaha)
Women A: Angela Butler (No. 1 LoneStar
Racing/Honda)
Women B/C: Michelle Suciu (No. 5 Wheelz Up
Racing/Suzuki)
16-24: Greg Gee (No. 10 Fox Shox/Honda)
Plus 25: Dane Heilman (No. 07 JPMX/Honda)
Plus 35: Randy Hurst (No. 50 RH
Aluminum/Honda)
Open Amateur: Andrew Pruzinsky (No. 14 Lost
Creek Cycles/Suzuki)
Production Lites: Cody Janssen (No. 25
Janssen Motorsports/Honda)
0-50cc Limted Auto Clutch CVT 4-6: Jordan
Digby (No. 88 OMF Wheels/DRR)
0-50cc Production Auto Clutch 6-8: Trevor
Miller (No. 59 Millmark Construction/Cobra)
51-70cc Production Auto Clutch 6-11: Nicholas
Gennusa (No. 15 Zebu Forno Bakery and Cafe/Honda
and Cobra)
0-70cc Shifter 6-11: David Nevrotski (No. 24
Rath Racing/JB & Cobra)
71-90cc 2 Stroke, 75-125cc 4 Stroke 8-11:
Brian Kincfogel (No. 106 Janssen
Motorsports/Honda)
71-90cc 2 Stroke, 75-125cc 4 Stroke
Production 12-15: Aaron Beer (No. 707 Pittman
Racing/Cobra)
90cc Production CVT Belt Drive 8-15: Alex
Kersey (No. 321 RC Motorsports/DRR)
75-125cc 4 Stroke Production 8-15: Zakary
Burke (No. 711 The Preowned Outlet/Honda)
90 2 Stroke Modified 8-12: Jesse Skvarek (No.
32 Kymco USA/Kymco and Fischer)
Supermini: Jeffrey Rastrelli (No. 28 Hetrick
Racing/Honda)
Complete results are available at
www.PowerSportsTour.com.
The next race for the PowerSports ATV Tour is
the season finale, scheduled for Sept. 15-16 at
Field of Dreams in Boswell, Pa.
About the PowerSports ATV Tour
The PowerSports ATV Tour is North America's
premier professional ATV racing circuit,
featuring QuadMX, QuadTerrain and SuperSport Pro
series action as well as more than 20 amateur
classes for adults, women and children. The Tour
is sanctioned by the World PowerSports
Association, North America's most respected
snowmobile and ATV sanctioning body, and a
promoter of ATV and snowmobile racing on both
the regional and national level. For more
information, please visit
www.PowerSportsTour.com.
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