Monster
Energy Kawasaki’s Ricky Dietrich became the first 2-time victor of the 2010
WORCS Series by winning round five in Honey Lake California this on May 16th
2010. Dietrich, who also won round three at Lake Havasu, took the holeshot and
lead the entire two hours. “It was an almost perfect race for me,” said
Dietrich. “We chose the correct set-up, the Kawasaki was perfect, and I got a
good start and just rode a hard pace. This was a real technical off road race
and I’ve never won here before. I always liked it here, but I really like this
course now.”
The
technical Honey Lake course featured rocks, mud, dust, trees, waterfalls and
chutes with lap times at just under 10 minutes for Dietrich.
Brown took second with a
race-long charge and brilliant riding.
Following
Dietrich across the line was FMF/KTM/Muscle Milk’s Mike Brown. Brown gated
fifth worked his way up to second by the second lap and began to close on
Dietrich, coming to within five seconds of the leader late in the race.
However, Brown was unable to close in from that point and had to settle for
second. “A good race for sure,” said Brown. “I would’ve liked to have caught
Dietrich, but he was riding well and I hit a rock and bent my front rotor and
lost my front brake, so I couldn’t charge the downhill’s as fast as I needed
to. Still, another second place and a 2-3 finish for KTM is a pretty good day.”
Caselli came from mid-pack
to third. He holds the points lead by one over Ricky D.
Taking
third was Brown’s teammate Kurt Caselli. Caselli gated mid-pack and, as is his
habit, charged through the pack and into third late in the race. “My plan is to
stay on the podium,” said Caselli. “But I need to start better and be up front
to win more of these in the second 1/2 of the season. This was a great course
today, fun, tough and fast. It looks like it’s going to be between myself,
Dietrich and Brown for the Championship so the next five races are going to
decide it all.”
Fourth
place fell to the hard-charging Justin Soule with Robby Bell fifth, Kevin
Rookstool sixth and JCR Honda’s Colton Udall with a personal best (for the
WORCS Series) seventh place. Brenden Ritzman finished eighth with Bobby
Garrison ninth and Motocross legend John Dowd taking the 10th spot
in his first ever WORCS event.
Justin Soule decided to
throw himself onto the ground a few times. He kept up the charge and
finished
fourth and now sits fourth in the points chase.
JCR's Colton Udall put
in a best ever WORCS performance for seventh and is fifth in the points.
Caselli
sits atop the points chase with 107/1 win via a very consistent 3-1-3-2-3
record. Dietrich is just one point back with a 5-3-1-3-1 record for 106/2 wins.
Brown stands third in points with 92/1 win via a 2-21-2-1-2 record, the only
blotch coming from what was basically a DNF in round two when Mike’s tranny
broke late in the race. Justin Soule sits fourth with 83 points and Colton
Udall, working hard towards a one-digit number in 2011 sits fifth in points
with 60.
John "Junkyard
Dog" Dowd came to round five to ride Destry Abbott's vacant Kawasaki.
Dowd
qualified seventh and finished a respectible 10th on the tough Honey
Lake
course.
Kacy
Martinez took
another win in the WORCS Momen Pro class.
