Wandahsega Earns First Career Pro-2 Podium

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Ben Wandahsega Off-Road Racing Team
_www.benwandahsega.com_ (http://www.benwandahsega.com/)
7/22/09

Team Wandahsega rolled into it's home track early with high expectations
for the weekend. Friday's practice went well as the new truck really worked
good on all the new changes the Bark River Lions Club made to the track.
They added more jumps and banked corners as well as making the table top
jumps bigger.

Saturday morning practice/qualifying went good too, Ben timed in 9th out
of 15 trucks putting Team Wandahsega in the 5th row inside. At the start of
the race the Ben was able to get a really good start as he came out in 5th
place after the first few corners and was able to hold that position with
out any challange. The dust was really bad and very hard to see at times.
At the competition yellow the Wandahsega Forest County Potawatomi/General
Tire truck was sitting in 4th place. When the green flag dropped at the
re-start Wandahsega started to get a run on the outside of the 3rd place
truck then made the pass when he went too far to the left and collected the
big Oakley banner ending his day. Coming out of turn one Ben was in 3rd and
was able to keep up with Dan Vandenhueval and Rob McCacrin for the next lap
until the dust began coming in his helmet making it hard to see with his
contact lenses full of grit. Even as Wandahsega slowed a bit he was still
able to hold off some of the classes best competitors like Evan Evans, Todd
Leduc, Scott Taylor, and Ross Hoek. In the end, he finished 3rd , in only
the team's 3rd race Hey Dave in the new Pro 2 . Crew Chief Mark
Wirhanowicz and the rest of the crew were very happy with the progress.

For Sunday's race the team had very high hopes once again with the
momentum from Saturday's great finish. At the start there was a jamb up of trucks
as Ben only was able to get out 10th or 11th this time. The track really
went away for the truck's set up, combined with dust once again; Ben was
only able to move up a couple positions at the competition yellow. The
re-start didn't go so well either as Mike Oberg spun out causing a chain
re-action wreck in which Ben got caught up in and came out of it with a flat right
front tire ending his day with credit for 12th position.

At the end of the weekend Team Wandahsega was very happy and Proud to get
on the podium for all of our sponsors. We really put our ATD transmission
and NEO Synthetic ATF to the test this weekend , as we are still having
cooling issues , and ran it up to 300 degrees on Saturday but it never
missed a shift. Crew Chief Mark Wirhanowicz said, "We'll take what we learned
back to the shop and make some improvements for the next Bark River race
coming up in August ".

Special thanks to our great sponsors: Forest County Potawatomi, General
Tires, Automatic Transmission Design, TrailReady Beadlocks, Ten Factory
(Motive Gear), NEO Synthetic Oil, NPHPowertools.com, FK Rodends, ER Energy
Release, MuddOff, Autometer, Sticker Dude, Meier's Signs, Lofholm's Building
Center, Kobas Electric, Tom. Muff-ex, and Mix 106FM.

Team Wandahsega would also like to give a special thanks to Todd Tenbroek
from FOX Racing Shocks for helping us out with some valving.

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