Whiplash Season opener well atleast for trucks and buggies that is.. Speedworld Round 1

On Saturday February 13th 2010 Whiplash had their first race of the season for trucks, buggies, and UTV‘s; However this year would be different from all the prior years. Whiplash is running a shot course and a desert series, with the short course race on Saturday and desert series race on Sunday. With the Parker 425 the week before and Battle at Primm the week after attendance was low, but that wouldn’t stop the exciting action of offroad racing.

Action Started on Friday as practice, not offically sanctioned by Whiplash, but many of the Whiplash racers came out to get a few test laps in before the race tomorrow.

Jim Mcneil takes a few practice laps and catches some air

John Martensen and Ed Melton take their new class 1 out for a feww practice laps

Wade Wyman takes his Supper Buggy out for a few test laps

Martensen and Melton take a few more practice laps

Father Son team of Ed and Harley White launch their class 8 truck over the table top jump

Ryan Therkildersen flies into a turn

Tyler Herzog flies through the back stretch in his R1 Rhino

That would conclude the friday practice. Next would be the short course race day. The short course series race consited of the one mile lucas oil race track. Here are some shots from saturday.

Tatum Ronco charges into turn one

Ed Melton slides sideways almost through the whole turn

Michelle Thompson slides sideways through the mudd in turn one

Wade Wyman and Loren Brown speed through turn one

Gerald King launches off the table top exiting turn three

Brandon Birmingham stages for his race

Harley and Ed white's class 8 truck break a lower ball joint entering into the moguls

Tyler Avelar catches some air off a jump in the trophy kart race

Brent Monroe Jr speeds around the track in his trophy kart

Tyler Herzog and Robert Van Beekum fly over the table top jump

The Kidzam super trophy kart flies down the front straight away

Robert Van Beekum wheelies down the table top jump

Loren Brown catches some air off the jump exiting turn three

That would conclude the day of short course racing. Sunday would be the desert racing day wherethe lucas oil track was extended an extra mile to mile and a half for the trucks and an extra 5-7 miles for the UTVs. Not to mention it was a landrush start...

The class one races rush into turn two after the land rush start

Brandon Birmingham beats a fellow racer out of the corner in the desert section

Richard Casey speeds through a corner in the desert section

The two class 8 trucks battle back and forth during the race

Harley White puts the truck up on two wheels in the corner

1450 racer Ruben Federico charges through the turn

John Martensen and Wade Wyman charge through the moguls

John Martensen wheelies of a moguls

Scott McCracken works his truck through the moguls

Ross Whitmoyer shoots a fireball out of his car as he flies down the front straight

Next would start the UTV race on the bigger desert loop, so I hike out to the desert and went to a whoop section I scouted out on friday...

Ty Wolfskill nose dives into a whoop

Mike Wolfskill splashes through the mudd puddle after the whoop section

Duane Bartlett gets a mud shower in his UTV as he chases down another racer

Todd Ouellette charges into the wash and kicks up some dirt

As I was walking back in the UTVs were on their last laps, and I found a cool turn to shoot from so I stopped there until the race was over...

Tim Montague slides his UTV through the turn

Todd Ouellette flies through the turn kicking up a bunch of dirt

John Eller three wheels out of the turn

Brian Bush kicks up a bunch of dirt charging out of the turn

That would end a great weekend of racing next race will be in Holbrook, Prescott Valley Fair Grounds, Az a race in the high country of northern Arizona.

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