Team Competitive Debuts in Class 10 with Top Five Finish at BITD Silver State 300

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Team Competitive Debuts in Class 10 with Top Five Finish at BITD Silver State 300

Team Competitive finished in 5th place out of 17 cars in class-10 this weekend at the Best in the Desert Silver State 300 in Nevada. Starting just north of Alamo, Nevada The grueling 300 mile timed race travels from the desert floor up to mountain peaks through some of the toughest off road terrain in all of Nevada. It was the first ever race in class 10 for driver/owner Greg Parker and the first in nearly 3-years for car builder John Cooley. Navigating the newly built Alumi Craft car for both drivers was veteran co-driver Greg Atherton. Cooley piloted the car for the first 148 miles. Starting 7th he drove methodically through the desert terrain turning the car over to Parker near the halfway mark. Parker officially began his first ever race in class 10 at Mile 148. In addition to driving a new car, in a new class, on a course he'd never pre-ran, Parker also contended with heavy dust causing low visibility. Parker kept up a fast pace against many of the long time veterans of the class. His portion of the race consisted of very technical mountain terrain. Nearly the entire race Parker was challenged by close competition often racing wheel to wheel. Never losing focus he maintained position crossing the finish line with a top five. Overall all classes the team finished 44th out of 131 vehicles. "I'm very pleased with the top five finish our first time out," said Greg Parker, owner of Competitive Metals a leading supplier of metal products to the off road industry. "The fact that we didn't win though, means we have some work to do. We learned where some of our strong points are and some areas we need to improve. It was a ton of fun though and we had a great team effort. I'm really looking forward to the next race." It was a pre-run of what's to come for Team Competitive. They will go back to the shop and review their notes and begin preparation for the next race. Where will that next race be? It's not yet decided. But the next Best in the Desert series race is Vegas to Reno taking place August 16-18. To be continued...

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[Western Motorsports]

Great job guy's!...It's hard to beat that with a brand new car!

[amrein1743]

Awesome job guys. That car is beautiful!

[bajatex]

Great first run!! Beautiful car btw. What Transmission are you guys running? Is it the same Mendeola LQ6 something or other as the Alumacraft class 10 that RDC did the feature on? If so what is your impression of it?

[racer56]

^^^^ It looks like the same car.

[Bink Designs]

^^^^ It looks like the same car.

Different car.. The 1st car was sold to Chip Prescott and he has done very well in the first few races he has entered. A sand guy for 20+ years turned into a desert racer over night!

Congrats Greg & John getting a top 5 for the first race out.. and it looks like many more races to come!

[pappawheely]

Greg Atherton told me they could blow the dust off and it would be ready for V to R!

[hill graphics]

great finish... congrads... but just a note...when you get caught and wave that you see that driver.. move over... pretty messed up that we backed off to give you room to pull off and let us by and you never did... its racing I know but we might not be as nice next time... Good job on the finish... always great to have competition in our class..