Free 1 Year Anniversary Special Edition
Misty Crice
Women breaking Ground
into
Rock Crawling & Bouncing
Alisha Rochus,
recently had the
opportunity to race a Bouncer for the first time in
the Powder Puff, (a female specific race), thst was
included in the American Rock Crawling Series,
held at Hawk Pride Off Road Park in Alabama.
A milestone for Alisha, coming full circle from
attending her first off road event, to her first race.
Alisha exclaimed “being in the drivers meeting
and actually belonging there was the beginning
of the awesomeness of that day”.
Dean Lickliter, SRRS and ARC Veteran Racer had
lent Alisha his buggy to allow her to gain some
experience this year at a few of the races. “When
Dean offered his buggy to me, you couldn’t slap
the happy off my face!”.
Just before the race, Alisha got the run down
of inner workings of the buggy from good and
personal coach ‘Plowboy’ Richie Keith. Having
Richie as her personal coach from start to finish
was “Awesome” he advised the first time racer
“Don’t let off the gas once you get around the
corner”. wanting to make Richie proud “I stayed in
it” doing her best. She bounced around a lot and
did not have the finish time she had hoped for,
but, she thought it was “very important for me to
get the feel for what being on the skinny petal felt
like”.
Alisha was more accustomed to hill racing anf
those type of obstacles compared to rushing up
this course and the obstacles it offered. She will
do many things differently next time and is determined to master the skinny pedal. Not breaking
anything and finishing her first race has been one
of her biggest accomplishments thus far and she
is very proud of how far 4x4 Nation has came as
well.
PowderPuff may have been Alisha’s first race,
but, not her first off road experience. Growing up
on a farm in Ohio, she spent muc [YH]