JoeyD23
#utvunderground
At Round 4 of the Lucas Oil Regional Series Cody Rahders in the Polaris/UTVunderground.com/Magnum Off Road/Fox XP900 finished the main in 3rd place, and on 3 wheels.
The July 13th race date proved to be difficult as both WORCS and the Lucas Oil Regional Series were scheduled for the same day. The decision was made that Cody, since he was tied for points in the XP class, would concentrate on racing the Polaris XP at the Regional’s along with his Black Rhino/RacerX Motorsports/Superchips/Toyo Tires Prolite, and substitute driver Joey DiGiovanni would be lined up to race the Polaris/Cognito Motorsports /UTVunderground/Fox RZR570 at WORCS.
With 3 vehicles to prep and 34 days to do it in the following took place; complete frame change on the WORCS RZR570, prep, repaint and wrap the XP900 (thank you Fox Shox) and another 200 hours of labor into the ProLite upgrading the power steering and fuel system, repairing the instrumentation, reconfiguring the cooling system, chassis fabrication, then wrapping it all in new tin work (Thank you SFI Designs) it was a very busy month.
In the XP class Cody qualified 3rd then started row three inside and managed to move into 2nd place where he stayed for the next 13 laps. On the last lap Cody made a clean pass on the leader in turn four to take over first and pull a 2-3 car lead going into to turn five only to have the former leader use Cody’s car for the apex of his turn taking him to the wall and then motor on to the win.
Cody was able to regroup and to get his XP down the front straight and across the finish line on three wheels dragging the left front along in the process to finish 3rd.
In the Pro Open class Cody qualified 4th in a field of 17 then for the main, started in 6th and worked his way into 3rd when his right rear tire blew on lap 7 forcing him out of the race.
"We took a chance and ran some old practice tires and saved our good tires for the National in a couple of weeks, I guess you can only run them about 12 times at ProLite speed before that let go huh?..."
And the WORCS RZR570? JoeyD brought it home in 4th place, JoeyD is now the official substitute driver for Cody Rahders. How do you feel about ProLite Joey?
Cody Rahders and R3motorsports would like to thank the following for their support;
Polaris, the UTVunderground.com, Magnum Off Road, Cognito Motorsports, Fox, Toyo Tires, Superchips, ITP Tires, Black Rhino, RacerX Motorsports, SFI Designs, Muzzys Performance, Team Alba Racing, K1 Race Gear, K&N, Lucas Oil, Frosty Burger, American Star Racing, Starting Line Products, Nogrady Racing, Crower, Fiber Werx, Method Race Wheels, TSW Electric, VP Race Fuels, ProLine Wraps.
Special thanks to Troy Patterson, Nick Novak, Kevin Sullivan, Joey DiGiovanni, Rick Strobel, Joe Moore, Brandon Hong, Bruce Nogrady, Chad Mittag, and Ken "The Machine" Johnson. Photo credit JDMfotos & UTVunderground.
Next race, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series at Glen Helen on July 27 in the #76 ProLite.
