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Article: Beach blanket fast go: 2nd annual Pismo beach race!
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- ATV Sport
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- December 15, 2005
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Everyone has fun, nobody gets hurt, racers make some bucks and lots of money goes to charity. In a perfect world, that's the way racing should be, and that's pretty much the way it went down at the second-annual Oceano (Pismo) Dunes beach race on California's Central Coast.
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Unlike other sand races in the States, Pismo is a fast, nine-mile grand prix-type course with big bowls, sky shots, dropoffs and long wide-open straigths. It's more like a beach race you'd find in Europe. In fact, the Pismo promoters got the idea for the race after checking out the famous Le Touquet beach race in France.
Like last year, the Pismo race ...