TF Racing, Action Kawasaki, and DirtWise Riding Schools backed Jesse Ansley came up short due to a broke chain in the Mini A class at the FTR hare scrambles round number 5 in Samsula, FL.  The race took place on Saturday November 30, 2013.

An eventful weekend it was, very eventful. I pulled a really good start taking the holeshot. I tried pulling away as much as I could but I wanted to ride conservative.  I was making little mistakes through the so called “mud”, balancing the bike, standing up and trying to stay up on two wheels. The course was a little muddy but it was really greasy in some places. In the other spots it was nice hard sand that was just awesome. Going through the first lap I got through the worst greasy section fine.  I’m feeling good and I have a good rhythm going.  There was one section with about 5 whoops and at the end there was a deep/short hole with soapy mud. In that section on the first lap I wheel tapped the first 4 whoops and I put my front end down to skim the last one because of an upcoming corner. My front end dropped into that deep/short hole and cartwheeling I went.  As I’m rolling on the ground (still moving) I’m moving along right with my bike. When I come to a stop the bike also comes to a stop and falls over on top of me. I push it off but I grabbed the pipe, my fingers are burning. I get up and get on my bike, I notice there is no fender, my Enduro Engineering bark buster bent up over my throttle tube, and my bars were all the way to the stop and my front wheel was straight.  I rode over to a tree, hit it and straighten it out as much as I could. As I’m riding I figured out my visor was broke. I’m still in first after all this but I can hear them coming.  It’s really hard riding with your bars not straight.  Finally I get used to it and I felt like I was making up time again.  Second lap I fell even better, I know were all the good lines are now and I am plucking away.  I get to this whooped out section (different section then before) and I’m going through on the back fender. I clicked up a gear and it seemed that the bike missed a shift into neutral. I shifted up and rev the motor and it still didn’t go. I look down and there is no chain. I pull off the track in the middle of the woods and the chain was hanging from the bottom chain guard by the rear sprocket. I pick it up and see if I can maybe put it back together and cruise to the pits. But this is how my chain broke.