Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Snowmobiles: Royal Distributing / Factory Recreation Pro Xtreme Team report


Courtesy Mark Fries

Owen Sound, Ontario, The Royal Distributing / Factory Recreation Pro Xtreme Team descended on Owen Sound this past weekend with maximum momentum from a number of solid showings in the USA recently.

This weekend the real work began, to chase the PRO and SEMI-PRO titles. Super-Wrench Wayne Legge had the Factory Rec REV's tuned perfectly and Iain and Joey had been training hard and testing even harder leading up to the weekend. The only thing that could slow Iain down now was the GMC truck he careened into while chasing Wayne and the Royal hauler on foot accross the parking lot Friday morning. Luckily, he was no worse for wear and only his ego was slightly bruised! After many laughs, it was time to get to work...

In the Round-Robin heat races on Saturday, Joey Sagan was a near perfect 3 for 4 in SEMI-PRO with 3 firsts and a second place in the SEMI-PRO Open and SEMI-PRO Stock heats. Joey also elected to run PRO 440 for the weekend and won both his PRO 440 heats on Saturday. On Sunday, Joey won both the SEMI-PRO 440 and SEMI-PRO Open heats in the morning to prepare for the final. After a SEMI-PRO 440 heat win on Sunday morning, Joey had to return to the starting line immediately to line-up for PRO 440, all he did was go out and run a solid second in PRO, looking only at Iain Haydens taillight, but thats all anyone did all weekend...

The #93 Iain Hayden REV's rolled off the truck like a juggernaut Saturday and promptly swept all the PRO Open and PRO 440 heats they entered. Sunday morning was no different, as Iain won heat after heat on his way to the Finals Sunday afternoon.Sunday afternoon the black and yellow Royal Ski-Doo REV's led lap after lap, with #202 Joey Sagan winning the SEMI-PRO 440 final in an exciting race, with lots of action just behind Joey.

Immediately following, Joey again lined up for the PRO 440 final, and the #93 of Hayden launched out front early, in the third corner alot of contenders got caught up in a melee that took out the #202 of Sagan, Iain never looked back and cruised to the PRO440 final win. In the high flying Open finals, Joey again led start to finish and won the SEMI-PRO open final in style. In the main event of the day, crowd favourite #93 Hayden didn't dissapoint with lap after lap of high flying triples on his way to a dominating win to cap a sweep of the entire weekend.

All in all, the four feature classes were swept away and the trophies were packed away into the Royaldistributing.com Hauler as the sun set on Owen Sound.

Thanks to Ski-Doo, Kimpex, FXR clothing, Ipone Oil, Studboy Traction, HMK boots, Spy Eyewear, and CKX helmets.

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