Nelson wins Quadcross; Yamaha dominates top 5

Yamaha's Dustin Nelson wins 
Quadcross title on his YFZR 


Yamaha riders dominate top 5

Dustin Nelson won the 2010 Yamaha ITP QuadCross Pro Production championship at Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, Calif. on Sunday, Nov. 14. Despite riding in pain with an injured tailbone, the Yamaha Factory Racing star swept both motos aboard his YFZ450R in a thrilling duel with series runner-up Beau Baron to take his fourth ITP QuadCross title in five years. Better still, Yamaha-mounted Justin Noss, Jason Dunkelberger and Jason Fife finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively, in the championship. Dunkelberger added even more laurels for Yamaha on Sunday by winning the Open Pro championship with a perfect two-moto sweep aboard his own YFZ450R.

Nelson had a big enough points cushion going into the final round that technically, all he had to do was start the first Pro Production moto to claim the series title. But this was anything but assured after getting injured just two weeks prior to the Glen Helen finale. Fortunately, after open practice on Saturday, Nelson found he could tolerate the pain well enough to race. And race he did. Though rival Baron beat Nelson to the first turn in Sunday’s first moto, he soon dropped one wheel over a berm, giving Nelson the opportunity to grab the lead. Nelson then led the rest of the moto, but not by much – at the flag he had only a two-second advantage over Baron. More importantly though, Nelson had clinched the title.

With the championship assured, Nelson powered his Yamaha to the holeshot and led every lap of the second moto, once again over rival Baron. This time the battle was even closer, with Baron trying to steal the last race of the season and Nelson refusing to give in. When the checkers waved Nelson took the win by just half a bike length over Baron. Making matters even sweeter, Nelson’s 1-1 moto sweep and fourth ITP QuadCross championship came on his 33rd birthday. “My YFZ450R had strong, durable power all year long and the handling was epic at every track,” he said later. “That combination of great power and handling is rare in ATV racing, and it totally made the difference for us this year.” Yamaha off-road racing coordinator Donnie Luce added, “It’s very impressive that after sustaining a painful injury and being unable to practice or train, Dustin was able to come out and do what he had to do to win the title.”

Video - ITP Quadcross

Here's a video from Round 6 of the ITP Quadcross series at Glen Helen Raceway Aug. 15. Yamaha's Dustin Nelson led the pro classes to take the overall win. Thanks to tahitianskateboarder for the great video.

For Sale - TPR Project YFZ450R MX Quad

FOR SALE is a 2009 Yamaha YFZ450R ATV. Fully MX race ready!

This quad has never been raced. It has about 3 hours total on the entire build, with the exception of a Power Commander V that was just installed.

This is a National Pro-Am caliber quad. You don't have to do anything to this quad but put your numbers on it! Asking $14,000 or best offer.

Transferrable, full 5-year warrantee. Serious inquiries only, please. Quad is in Ohio. Call 330-569-4324.

Parts list:

ENGINE
JE Piston Pro Series 3-ring
YFZ450 camshaft exhaust
ATP Racing Engines R&R top end including valve adjustment; Port and polish cylinder head; Competition Serdi valve job; Custom dyno map
Motoworks SR4 full exhaust system, stainless head pipe
with aluminum muffler
DynoJet Power Commander V
Hinson Racing clutch pack plate and spring kit
Hinson Racing billet aluminum clutch cover
Twin-Air PowerFlow air filter mounting kit with filter
CV4 blue silicone coolant hoses

SUSPENSION, TIRES AND WHEELS
ATV Four-Play Maximum Ground Clearance (MGC) Gen II Long Travel A-Arms (camber, caster adjustable)
ATV Four-Play Soft Bars Gen II
Fox Shox Float X Evol front shocks
Fox Shox Podium X rear shock
RPM Dominator II rear axle

Maxxis RAZR MX M931 19 x 6-10 front tires
Maxxis RAZR MX M932 18 x 10-9 soft compound rear tires
Douglas Wheel Technologies (DWT) Alumilite Ultimate Champion In A Box Kit
Featuring Rok'n Lock front wheels and G2 rear wheels

BODY PARTS
Tarantula Performance Racing (TPR) Race Safer Pro nerf bar/heel guard/foot peg combination-black powder coat
Tarantula Performance Racing (TPR) MX front bumper
Powdercoated stock rear grab bar
B-Tek Performance SKID EZ single bolt aluminum full chassis skid plate
HMF Exhausts front headlight block off plates


CONTROLS/MISC.
Spider Grips SLT ATV Grips
Cycra ATV Stealth Handshield Racer Pack hand guards
Quad Tech SCS-H1 gripper seat cover
Galfer braided stainless steel extended front brake lines
Galfer braided stainless steel rear brake line
GYTR Tether kill switch w/TPR kill switch bracket

Tons of extra parts include: oil filters, spark plugs, Twin Air Air Filter, Hinson clutch stack, stock seat cover (immaculate), Fox shocks air pumps, etc....

All powder coating (a-arms, body parts, brackets, etc.) done by Capital Powder Coating in Suffield, Oh.

Pics - Graphic kit on project YFZR

I've been asked to post up more pics of the Danger UK Graphics kit on the TPR project YFZ450R, so scroll down to check out the pics.

It's hard to believe that the picture at the right is where we began with this project about one year ago with ATP Racing Engines. The absolute last piece of the puzzle came together this month with the installation of the graphic kit, which you can read about by clicking on the link or scrolling down the home page.

The TPR project YFZR was a long journey that proved well worth it in the end, as you'll see in the photos. And we've still got one more story to go with ATV.com

Click on the images for a larger picture.

ATV.com Story 2

Ride Review: TPR project Yamaha YFZ450R

The second of three stories on the Tarantula Performance Racing project Yamaha YFZ450R is up at ATV.com. This story reviews the quad's performance and handling with input from an Ohio-based amateur racer and NEATV-MX pro Aaron Meyer. Click here to see what the test riders thought of the quad's performance.

This build started in April 2009, and the quad spent the bulk of the year bouncing around performance shops on the east coast. For a few of the sponsors, including TPR, this was only the first or second YFZ450R to come into their shop. And it's one of the first pro-level builds of the new Yamaha to be completely documented. Including purchase price, the tally for this build tops $18,000.

The first story at ATV.com shows how the project came together. You can watch the YFZR evolve from stock into a pro-am level race quad by clicking through the archives of this blog at the right of the page.

The video review with Aaron and ATVonDemand.com should be up next week. We'll post the video here when it's done.