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Stegz takes 2nd in

SHELL SERIES

 

STEGPEGZ on top

QLD MX

 

Ben Grabham takes

Finke 08!

Grabham starts a winning streak with STEGPEGZ®

With the popularity of this event becoming so huge, bike entries were stopped

at 500 with a further 70 entries put on the waiting list.

 

With recent rain the prologue track became treacherous which would make qualifying difficult and would probably not be a true indication of where the

top riders would end up on the leader board after the next 2 days of grueling

battle across the unforgiving desert. GHR Honda rider Jason Hill took the honors in the prologue with the eventual winner Grabham riding cautiously and qualified 10th with KTM’s Brad Wiliscroft, also sporting STEGPEGZ took 12th in the prologue.

 

DAY 1 got away and after a big crash by the leader Chad Billet, who was leading up to the 170km mark, Grabham took over the lead and finished out the day with a small margin lead of 33 seconds over Ryan Branford.

 

“I had some problems with refueling, I was pleasantly surprised to learn I was going to start Day 2 in the lead”

 

DAY 2 saw the two of Ben Grabham and Ryan Branford go at it for the 228km return leg from Finke to Alice Springs. But it was Grabham who rode the best and stretched his lead to 58 seconds to take back to back victories.

 

“I knew I had to give it everything to stay ahead of Ryan. It was so rough and I am rapt to get 2 wins in a row, a big thanks to everyone who helped out.”

 

 

7-9th June

KTM’s Brad Williscroft came home in third, making a stegpegz sweep on the podium.

29th June

With stegz not happy with 2nd in the shell series, he has leaped off to a great start in the QLD Natural Terrain MX Championship.

 

After sweeping all three Motos, holeshoting and leading every lap of every race, he now holds the points lead in the Pro Open category after 2 rounds.

Series Results After 2 Rounds

Grabham takes STEGPEGZ® to Victory in 2007 Finke Desert Race

Stephen ‘STEGZ’ Smith takes 5th overall in the final round of the Nokia Australian Motocross Nations At Coolum in the Pro Open Class.

406 bikes were due to leave Finke today at 12 noon CST for the return journey in the 2007 Tattersall’s Finke Desert Race.

 

At the first checkpoint (Mount Squires) Ben Grabham (Honda #3) from NSW went through in the lead at 12.27.16 with last year’s bike winner Ryan Branford (Honda #1) from Alice Springs at 12.27.48. and closing.

Third through was Darwin’s Jason Hill (Honda #12) who started from Finke today in 4^th position

Fourth at Mt. Squires was Ben Brooks (Honda #8) with fifth being Michael Walsh (Honda #14).

The big change in the leading bunch was Brad Williscroft (KTM #2) who dropped off the ‘first five’ board after starting from Finke in third position. He was later listed as a DNF with the explanation being an accident.

 

At Bundooma, Grabham went through first but Branford was only a mere 11 seconds behind indicating that it could well become “a fuel stop race”.

Third through Bundooma was Jason Hill but he was some 11 minutes off the leading pair.

At Rodinga it was still Grabham in the lead passing through the checkpoint at 1.19.31 with Branford in pursuit passing at 1.22.32.

Grabham maintained the pace and passed through Deep Well at 1.33.36, sixty eight kilometres from the finish. Branford passed through Deep Well at 1.37.00.

Speaking after taking victory Grabham said he had ridden a controlled race and was aware of where his rival Branford was.

Branford on the other hand was pushing hard but then it all came unstuck with then the tough Alice Springs rider ‘had a huge off at abut 140kph’.

As for third placed Jason Hill the gap was due to a flat front tyre, but he claimed it didn’t impact on him as much as would be expected because it was through the ‘whoops’.

Fourth in the event was prologue winner Michael Walsh from Alice Springs on Honda #14

 

Grabham’s winning total time for the event was 4 hours 19 minutes and 4 seconds.

August 07

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