Nicolas Petit wins Copper Basin 300

Photo from the CB300 Facebook page.

In a classic Nicolas Petit victory, the Team Petit Racing dogs came charging down the trail to finish the race in first at just a little past Noon on Monday. Petit has reclaimed his title after losing it to Brent Sass. The two teams have battled back and forth for several years now on the Copper Basin 300.

Petit led for most of the race, until Meiers Lake where Brent Sass was first into the next couple of checkpoints, but Petit's rest strategy paid off and the 12 minute lead he had out of Chistochina, those were 12 minutes Sass and his Wild and Free team just couldn't make up.

The race for third appears to be the hotter contest. Jessie Holmes ate up a lot of trail overnight to leap frog over both Hedda Mosleth and Matt Hall. After finishing up their mandatory rests in the final checkpoint, Hall and Holmes had five minutes between them and judging by the trackers, that has not been enough for Hall to hold off Team Can't Stop.

Teams will continue to come into Glen Allen throughout the day. The awards banquet will be held Tuesday evening.