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Race: Decmber 3, 2005
LARSON SALVAGES SIXTH PLACE FINISH WITH DAMAGED KART
Red Bluff, CA – Despite a broken frame and bent rear axel ParkerStore Outlaw Sprint Kart driver Kyle Larson was able to survive the
maladies and race to a sixth place finish in the 500cc Open Intermediate Main event
Saturday December 3rd at the Red Bluff Winter Indoor Series inside the Pauline Davis
Pavilion here. Larson also once again sub drove for the injured Max Adams in the 125/250
Intermediate Division and captured a third in the Main event.
Larson qualified his ParkerStore/Grandpa George Motors/QRC Factory Kart fourth in the 23
kart Open Intermediate field. He started fifth in the first heat and was only able to
garner a fourth place finish, relegating him to the B-Main event. Next up was the trophy
dash and Larson came from third starting to finish second. He started on the pole of the
B-Main and led every lap to transfer into the feature race.
Larson started 10th and moved into seventh on the first lap and advanced to fourth on lap
two when James Sweeney, Dillon Silverman and Justin Grant (sub driving for basketball
tournament bound point leader Mason Moore) got together on the back straight. Larson held
fourth behind leader Garrett Mills until lap 10 when Jonny Lentz got by. Larson battled
Lentz over the next five laps as the duo closed in on third place Derek Copeland. On lap
15 Lentz attempted to pass Copeland coming out of turn four but the pair touched. Lentz
veered into Larson’s path and the ParkerStore mount jumped Lentz’ left fron t and came down hard, breaking the frame and bending
the rear axel. Copeland was able to continue on in third with Larson holding onto his
bouncy ride in fourth, as Lentz was done with a broken tie rod end. Larson maintained
control of his kart over the next four laps and still held fourth when the yellow appeared
setting up a one lap dash to the checkered. As the field came out of turn four to restart
fifth place Andrew Cumpton tapped Larson from behind, sending him into a half spin. He was
able to recover after Cumpton and Alissa Geving got by and was credited with a sixth place
finish as Mills led every lap for the win.
The ParkerStore hotshoe commented after the races “I had a fast kart tonight and was
running right with the leaders. The track was hard to pass on again tonight and I was
doing everything I could to get by Copeland and Lentz kind of snuck by me. When they had
contact I thought I could get by both of them but I just barely clipped Jonny. I knew I
bent the axel when I came down but I had no idea the frame was broken. It didn’t make
things any better when I got turned on the last restart. But that is the kind of racing
you get on Red Bluff’s little bullring. We’ll come back next week with a new
frame and run the last All Star Tour race of 2005. I’m in fourth in the 500cc Open
Division and still have a chance to win the championship. All I have to do is finish
better than 12th in the B-main of the 125/250 divison and I’ll wrap up my third All
Star Tour Championship and ninth overall. I’m really looking forward to this
one.”
Race: December 3, 2005
Photos Courtesy of Jack Waterman
www.kylelarsonracing.com
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