Cory Davis' track failed on the first leg of Day 3. He said when it started ratcheting he thought he might have a belt problem so he stopped and ripped all his body panels off to try to find the problem. He left them behind to save time.
Our friends over at arcticinsider.com took the time to get to the bottom of the mystery of the track failures thatplagued some of the top running Arctic Cat riders at the 2010 I-500.
Track failure took out D.J. Ekre, the leader on Day 3, Cory Davis, Ryan Simons and Chad Kyllo. The failures were a mystery with perhaps the only clue being all the riders had Camoplast Ripsaw tracks while race winner Dan Ebert used a Camoplast Cobra track.
The failures were heartbreaking for Ekre who had a comforatble lead on the reast of the field as well as for Kyllo who was leading the Semi-Pro class.
Click over to read AI’s interview of Rod Foss, the engineer who oversees track development up at Arctic Cat.
http://www.arcticinsider.com/Article/Why-Tracks-Failed-During-the-I-500
