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Jan
19

Idle Chat with Kawasaki and Mike Lasher

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Idle Chat with Mike Lasher
Kawasaki UTV driver Mike Lasher has been involved in side by side racing for a long time and has been known to put his Monster Energy Lasher Motorsports Kawasaki Teryx on the podium a time or two. After a season of ups and downs in 2010, Lasher and his teams have seen their off-season testing paid off with a second-place finish at the first Best in the Desert race in Parker, Ariz. We sat down with Lasher to see what how his new season is shaping up.

Monster Energy Kawasaki: Last year you had a roller coaster season and now you started 2011 off with a bang. What have you guys done to get back on the podium?
Mike Lasher: Last year was a season of challenges to say the least. This is our third year running the Kawasaki Teryx. The first year we ran it mostly out of the box for the season and we were really happy with our results. We just wanted more. So we had a big plan to tear the car down and build it bigger, better, stronger. Well, we changed from a carbureted motor to a fuel injected motor and that just put a little wrench in our program. It seemed like at every race, we had something come up.

We would hit the desert every time we could to practice and tune things in. It all came together in Parker. We wanted to win, but I’m extremely happy with the second place and I know we can build our program from here.

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