Mammoth is such a awesome race I can’t believe it has been about 5 years since I have raced there.  In the past I have always had conflicts, but not this year.  I love this track, the atmosphere, anything and everything about the place. 

I finished 4th in the first moto and qualified for the main out of 37 riders.  In the main I had a terrible start and was about mid pack.  I was charging hard to make up positions with a total of 39 guys in my race.  On my 3rd of 10 laps I lost my back brakes, not good especially coming down the steep Mammoth mountain down hill.  It had 2 foot deep breaker bumps, pretty scary stuff with out back brakes.  I finished 10th.

Have a wonderful summer!      

I finished 9th out of 26 Pro’s.  I was really looking forward to this race when I saw the track on Saturday.  This is definitely the best track we have ever had in Washington.  It had an awesome long off road section in tight trees and it ran an 1/8th mile on a high speed pavement section.  The weather was perfect about 60 degrees with overcast skies.

I knew passing on the course was going to be pretty tough so the start was everything.  The start was maybe 200 yeards long with a 180 degree left hand turn.  I was first to the turn and then suddenly it was like I was stuck in neutral, my clutch lever would not release out due to the handguard stopping it.  The dumbest thing I have ever experienced, it just wouldn’t release the clutch out to get around the turn so I was just coasting and everyone was passing me.  The crazy thing is we did a parade lap and I had no problems, everything was perfect.  By the time I figured out what the heck was going on, I went from a holeshot to about 25th place.  I couldn’t slide the hand guard up because the mount was too tight.  I was hitting it with my palm then my fist and I couldn’t get it to budge.  I finally had to stop and kick it with my boot to get it to move and release my clutch.

I now had no choice but to just ride hard and try and make up some ground.  I think I came around first lap in 16th.  I kept gaining positions and then on the third lap a guy crashed right in front of me and I hit his bike.  It was not much of a hit and I didn’t go down but apparently I clipped my rear brake line, lost all the fluid and had no rear brakes the rest of the race.  So I finished in 9th.  Obviously a big disappointment to me.  I felt so good going in and had done the work and felt this was my race. 

Yesterday I was mad but, today I have to laugh about it.  Who ever heard of losing a race due to a handguard.  I know there were many other hard luck stories from the week end.  So I feel blessed and know it can always be worse.  The good news is there is always another race, and for that I am thankful.

Justin Soule’

WORCS Top 10:

1.  Bobby Bonds 

2.  Mike Brown

3.  Taylor Robert

4.  Joshua Strang

5.  Kyle Summers

6.  Tim Weigand

7.  Ricky Dietrich

8.  Nick Brozovich

9.  Justin Soule’

10. Rory Sullivan

I thought I should update you on everything going on.  It has been a crazy, busy month.  Number one I proposed to my girl friend Courtney!!!!  She is the biggest blessing I could ever ask for.  So, my fiance’ and I are planning to be married in the month of September 2009.  So we have a lot to do to get ready, but everything is coming together great.   

I also received my Pastoral degree from Global University.  I have been working on it for about 3 years and I am excited to be done.  I plan to continue my ministry outreach at the WORCS races and we will see what God has in store in the future.  

Other than that, I have been racing and riding!!!  I did the first two outdoor nationals and they were a definite learning experience.  I didn’t qualify, which was a bummer, but its a whole different type of racing and it was my first time.  The experience and just getting my feet wet was well worth it.  I am definitely looking forward to going to some more of them, but not until next year due to my schedule conflicting.

I finished 4th out of 27 Pro’s.  It was a beautiful day and perfect temperatures, mid 70’s.  I really love the Honeylake MX track I think it is one of the best off road races WORCS holds.  The course has everything from soft loam to rocks and square edge.  I love the waterfall section, it is pretty gnarly.

I had a nice start with a 3rd but when we hit the whoop section I swapped out and lost my momentum, two or three riders passed me.  I came around in 7th.  I was riding so tight and pumped up so I just had to wait for the arm pump to go down.  Then I was able to start charging again and work my way back up. 

This race is only about 40 minutes from my house so it was great to have a lot of my friends and family around the course cheering me on although, with it, is also the added pressure.  So all in all a pretty good race.  I have also moved up to 4th place in overall points in the series.

My next race is the Outdoor National at Glen Helen on May 23rd.  This will be my first one so I am pretty pumped about it.

God bless and thank you for everything,

Justin Soule’

Top 10:

1.   Bobby Bonds

2.   Nathan Woods

3.   Mike Brown

4.  Justin Soule’

5.   Taylor Robert

6.   Damon Huffman

7.   Nick Brozovich

8.   Kyle Summers

9.   Ricky Dietrich

10. Bobby Garrison