Shawn Gann couldn’t get out of Denver fast enough.

First he burned up his engine during Friday Pro Stock Motorcycle qualifying at the NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals and then he spent the rest of the weekend in the hospital sick. The two incidents were unrelated. 

“I was so sick Saturday,” he said. “Got the flu or something and just had to go to the hospital, so I spent all day Saturday there and came back and was ready to race Sunday, but it just didn’t happen.”

Shawn Gann couldn’t get out of Denver fast enough.

First he burned up his engine during Friday Pro Stock Motorcycle qualifying at the NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals and then he spent the rest of the weekend in the hospital sick. The two incidents were unrelated. 

“I was so sick Saturday,” he said. “Got the flu or something and just had to go to the hospital, so I spent all day Saturday there and came back and was ready to race Sunday, but it just didn’t happen.”

Gann never returned to the track on Sunday. Besides, the damage to the bike had been extensive and would have required a substantial amount of repair to make the call. 

“It just caught on fire,” said the four-time NHRA Nationals winner. “There was a short in the harness and it hit the carbon fiber, that’s very flammable and it just lit up.”

Gann is a four-time Nationals event winner in the NHRA Full Throttle Series Pro Stock Motorcycle class: Joliet, Denver (2004); Englishtown (2003); Las Vegas (2001).


 

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