Subaru Short Track Dirt Crit Finale

Big Thanks to Todd Holtman and family for the Subaru sponsorship, Alpine Shop, Ballwin Cycles, Dogfish and Bill Woods of Pfoodman for ante-ing up big time. Thrasher, Notorious BIG, Tieber, Gibson, Skuck, the Powells, Pauli, Basler, any others who helped from time to time, thanks very much for the support.

We do this (promote the races) for the purpose of advocating Active Lifestyle. Let's face it, none of the 100 racers were sitting on a couch watching Football yesterday. They were out in the parks, in the woods, riding bikes and feeling good. As long as riders continue to show up, we will continue to promote races, building the culture, spreading the word of active living and changing lives by way of our funky community. So hats off to all who attended during the six race series. Please don't hesitate to give me some feedback, what worked what didn't. Scoring is a challenge, we know this. Do your part by understanding the challenges of this sort of trail and error event management.

A Couple highlights of yesterdays Racing:

The new Pirtles, the Powells. Look for these kids, including sis, to embark on greatness. Not to mention Dad/Coach Jeff Powell taking 1st in the B series.

The kids race, all 12 kids said no to the short course and elected to do the treacherous Full Lap of the big boys. Sammi Powell shredded the field, but they were all winners.

The "Lap Off", Zak Haffner and Jeff Powell for 1st and second. Zak, on the first 10 feet of the start snapping his chain, Jeff Powell waiting for the "official approved" hand up of a new bike then commenced to the hammering. Jeff pulled ahead on the one lap decision maker for the series win.

John Peiffer and Devin Clark, same way, Lap Off, Devin reaching finish ahead of John for the 3rd place series final.

The "PF Race". New to the Short track thing, a big hit with lots of pain to be had. The Ploch and Cash Combo proved merciless in their ability to keep the others away. Not an easy race. We will likely do a team Short Track again, rumored as an event within an AMBC???....

Regardless, it was a good time had by all. Results below (spelling is as good as it was written)

Kids Race

1 Sammi Powell
2 Ethan Credenhead

3 Casey Carter

4 Nathan Burlis

5 JD Peiffer

6 Taylor Burlis

7 Colin Maxam

8 Cody Beyer

9 Julia Peiffer

10 Caitlin Baxter

11 Camille Schillizzi

12 Corinne Schillizzi

C Race

1 Alex Powell

2 Jax Powell

3 Andy Prunty

4 Justin Pollnow

5 Joe Perry

6 Adam Marcotte

7 Rob Ballon

8 Stephen Venters

9 Adam Schell

10 Mark Grumke

11 Ian Murphy

12 Cory Redmond

13 Tom Burlis

DNF Ross Blanton

DNF Jonathan Schilling

B Race

1 Devin Clark
2 John Peiffer

3 Zak Haffner

4 Jeff Powell

5 Mark Hasler

6 Kent Jones

7 Todd Holtman

8 Craig "Boz" Basler

9 Matt Grothoff

10 Ethan Johnson

11 Brian Beyer

12 Carrie Cash-Wooten

13 Peter Goode

14 Number 130

15 Rob Oellerman

16 Darin Marlow

17 Ryan Lemmon

18 James Moore

19 Jeff Klola

20 Steve Tim

21 Jeremy Meitz

22 Mike Kickenbothom

23 Loran Cavano

24 Jay Marvin

25 Shaun Turnbull

26 Mike Gibson

27 Marc Pauly

28 Paul Miller

29 Karen Holtman

A Race

1 Chris Ploch

2 Travis Thrower

3 Anthony Dust

4 Wes Bierman

5 Dan Fuhrman

6 Jay Strothman

7 Greg Sandknop

8 Robert Metz

9 Drew Black

10 Ralph Pfremmer

11 Mike Teiber

12 Russ Murphy

13 Matt Dawson

14 Eric Schuck

15 Scott Mortimer

16 Craig Thrasher

DNF Bob Arnold

Fastest Female

Carrie Cash-Wooten

Series Winners

A Race

1 Chris Ploch

2 John Mathews

3 Wes Bierman

B Race

1 Jeff Powell

2 Zak Haffner

3 Devin Clark

4 John Peiffer

C Race

1 Chris Smentkowski

2 Matt Smith

3 Erik Illies

"PF" Race (Need help here, please advise)

1 Ploch/Cash-Wooten
2 Clark/Sandknop

3 Hafner/Hasler

4 J. Powell/Boyer

5 Thrasher/Shuck

6 Thrower/Dust

7 Peiffer/Kloha

8 Perry/Ventors

9 Turnbull/Holtman

10 A. Powell/Lemmon

11 Pollnow/Ventors

12 Balser/Oellerman

13 Strothman/Dawson?

14 Fuhrman/Boyer?