OSBORN RACING DOMINATES IN UTV THEIR DEBUT WEEKEND

[Rusty5150]

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OSBORN RACING DOMINATES IN THEIR UTV RACE DEBUT

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Menifee</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">CA</st1:state></st1>, 9-1-10 Osborn Racing has a solid background in Trophy Kart Racing. Osborn has raced a 250 and a 450 Kart in many different race series. Osborn was ready to go to the next level and UTV was the next likely step. Kenny Osborn (Owner) set out to find the best UTV on the market. Kenny ended up at the door step of long time racer and master fabricator Todd Arthur. Todd used to race the famous Flying Banana. The Banana has been sitting in the HRT shop in Ramona CA for almost 2 seasons. Kenny thought what better car than the Banana to build a UTV program around. Kenny had a couple ideas to get his program up and running fast and that was to bring Todd and the Banana team on board as well.
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The new Osborn UTV would make its racing debut at the Lucas Oil Regional at Glen Helen. The Osborn team came out Friday to get some practice laps in before race day. Todd and his crew came out to assist the team. Todd would do the spotting for driver Ryan Beat. While learning to handle the 4wd drive car and learning how it slides and comes out of turns, the clutch let go. Chris from Benchmark was contacted and a new clutch was picked from his shop at 2:00am on Saturday. The Osborn crew and HRT crew installed the clutch and got the car ready to compete. The practice started without a hitch and Ryan jumped out to a lead. The old Banana was really running hard when the seat belt got caught in the clutch basket ending the practice session. Todd and crew quickly fixed the problem and got the car ready for the 1^st race.

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As the green flag dropped the rest of the racers sat there sleeping and Ryan jumped out to a quick lead. The track was wet and muddy in corners thus allowing the 4wd Rhino to pull out a lead on the SR1 cars and the under powered cars in the field. Ryan held a good lead up until the last 3 or 4 laps when Gary Thompson started to ree in him with his SR1. Ryan was pushing it hard through turn one when he slid wide into a Redline and spun out. Ryan quickly jumped back on the track and into 2^nd. Gary Thompson was leading when his rear wheel flew off allowing Ryan to cross the finish line in 1^st taking the overall win and class win.

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Team Osborn takes home 1^st place in their 1^st UTV race. Look for team Osborn to come into Speedworld with a fresh car and a solid team.

Press Release by Rusty Baptist of Fatography.net and UTVUnderground.com

Photos by Shirl Papaian of Papaian Enterprises

 

[kennyo15]

Hey thanks for the great write up. We appreciate all you do for our team.

I spoke with HRT this evening, Todd and their crew have just about finished the race prep already. With our team racing just about every two weeks it is great to have the dedication of a crew like HRT.

Another one of our great sponsors, Black Rhino is hooking us up with a deal on a power steering set up to help reduce driver fatigue.

Hopefully we will see you guys at the Arizona Regional Race next week.

Thank you again UTVunderground

Kenny

 

[BOBONTHIS]

It’s great to have another competitor back on the track. I'm glad to see the Yamaha back in the mix. Welcome to UTV Short Coarse racing. If there is anything you need fill free to hit me up @ the track. After racing a Yamaha over the last three years I have a nice collection of spare parts

 

[07fj]

It’s great to have another competitor back on the track. I'm glad to see the Yamaha back in the mix. Welcome to UTV Short Coarse racing. If there is anything you need fill free to hit me up @ the track. After racing a Yamaha over the last three years I have a nice collection of spare parts

way to go Bobby.

good luck to the Osbornes future in UTV racing with the old Rhino

 

[JoeyD23]

Thanks for the love in return Kenny!!!

Bobby, your the man, but how di dyou end up with my sig pic??? hahahaha