Casey Currie KOH Race Report

Monday – Wednesday
Testing and Pre Running
Casey started the week by testing the crawler and Teryx. Once he felt the shocks were dialed the pre running begun. Driving the complete course for both Races we traveled over 200 miles in Pre-running and 100 miles in testing.

Thursday
SideXSide Race and Tech Inspection
Casey started the race in 13th place. Moving through the field in his stock motor Kawasaki Teryx, Casey made it through the technical sections quickly and had no problems in the 70 mile loop. When he came in for the finish he was the first Kawasaki Teryx and was the only vehicle that ran under 50 miles an hour top speed. Casey “Next year we will definitely be building the engine. We had a very competitive car in the whoops and rocks but on graded roads we got plain beat by motor. I am excited to be racing in the desert and there is nothing like driving my Monster Energy Kawasaki Teryx through the rocks” Casey finished a solid 4th overall.
Tech Inspection for the Monster Energy Crawler was long. After sitting in line for Hours the car was teched, and Casey was officially ready to race. Casey “Its great to talk to all the people and sponsors before the race, I am glad that we cleared tech, now its up to me to get through tomorrow.”

Friday
Race Day
Waking up at 5am to stage the vehicle Casey was ready to go. Starting from the 56th position today’s race was going to be no easy task.
When the green flag dropped Casey started picking off vehicles, getting into the top 20 by mile marker 35. Then having fuel pick up problems slowed him down. By the half way mark Casey charged hard to get in the top 10. With pit stops that made sure the car was perfect, a great handling car in the rocks, on Sledge Hammer at mile marker 120, Casey was in the top 4.
While attempting Sledge the first time Casey slid off the line. After backing up and lining back up Nick Campbell came up and was going to stick his nose in, so Casey went for it, leaving him on his side. As the crowd went to turn Casey over, Nick decided to drive over the under side of the vehicle making it impossible for Casey to get upright and leaving him dangling in the car. After 5 minutes of hanging inside the car, Nick made it up Sledge leaving Casey’s car with broken air lines to the lockers and 2 broken shocks.
Casey ” I am very disappointed in how my race ended, we had a rough start with fuel pick up problems, but to find out that we were in the hunt for the overall and then be taken out of contention by a teammate is very disapointing. The car Shannon gave me works awesome in the rocks and without a single flat tire with our BFG’s the race was just like we predicted, the race wouldn’t even start for me till mile 100 where I started picking up time. We will definitely be back in 2011 for title contention.”

Saturday
Anaheim Supercross
Casey drove straight from the King of the Hammers to display the unique Monster Energy crawler at the Anaheim Stadium for Supercross Round 5. With over 45,000 people at SX the Monster Energy Crawler got a lot of attention!!

Casey Currie Motorsports Would Like to Thank KOH and all our supporters. We also want to thank Monster Energy, BFGoodrich Tires, Shannon Campbell Ent, Currie Enterprises, Motive Gear, Outlaw Off Road, Oakley, GoPro, Dirt Bagz, Torco Oils, Walker Evans Wheels, King Shocks, Mastercraft Seats, Magnaflow Exhaust, SignPros, Turn Key, Jaz Fuel Cells, Kicker Audio, Leatte Brace, Simple Green, ITP Wheels