Great weekend of racing. Gorgeous 80 degree day on saturday. Tons and tons of great food. Craig, great to see you. Hope youll now be a wera/summit regular! Your bike looks spectacular as usual.
The caferacer.net crew kicked ass. Despite the track being repaved, its still bumpy as hell in a few spots. (it wouldnt be summit with out one or two bumps eh?) But overall the concrete patches are gone, (i miss them) and its a free for all as far lines go. Its nice not having the seams to think about and being able to ride where you want. Im not sure whats contributed to the times dropping, a heavier hand, or the new pavement but i think everyone was happy this weekend. And those that couldnt show were surely missed.
There were 10 bikes on the 350/500 gp grid.
they were
yeller, tt, myself, whateves, bj, tex, bucky, soto, jack houman, and steven barber. (ooops)
on the same grid in v1/f500, and v2 was jersey girl and craig641. we were all on the track at the same time. really fun to see those guys go through.
first the breaks. sotoman had unknown mechanicals as did yeller. yeller with a fried ignition box. he and jack houman scrambled to get points back on his bike, and he got out for the 350 race but the bike failed to run well after over revving it in morning warm ups. tough breaks for both riders.
Ill start by buy saying bucky sexton showed with a better hanlding machine and kicked some ass. After diagnosing a starting problem at lunch, with no practice time on the bike, bucky rocked out with his cock out. Great seeing bucky go and being able to hang with him and dice for a few laps. Way to go Buck! He then proceeded to celebrate by getting wasted on red wine. Both he and lisa were hilarious and fun all weekend.
I had 2 great races with bucky and tex. a real blast. tex getting me at the the line in the 500 race by about a bike length. but we were passing every lap. roper lapped us on a tz250a. A first year twin shock model! On the last lap. I thought wed have one more to go to size up tex for one last pass. But ropey blew it for me! I nebver thought ide be getting lapped! next time mawbs. you know i got it in there. I took 5th behind tex in both races.
Bill the new guy was impressive and ran some decent lap times for his first time there. i even looked over my shoulder and was surprised to see him hanging right there. Even ran some comparable laps times to us in the begining stages of the race. Hes going to be fast. If he can keep from running out of gas.
Whatevs cleaned house. Winning both 500 and 350gp races. Pulling away at the start like we were waiting for al to throw another flag for us. He ran out of gas crossing start finish at the checkered. Sat in t1 with bill who was also out of gas waiting for the crash truck. Probably the first time anyones come back to the pits, on the crash truck, with another crashed rider, and also able to claim he won the race. Nice riding dude.
Jerseygirl won, yes, I Said it, WON the v1 race. Took a 3rd in v2 I think. Shes fast as hell, smooth, and predictable. Weve all known it, watch out, shes going to be big trouble. Nice riding jersey girl. Nice being passed by you so authoritatively. You looked great out there! Big congrats on your first win!
Craig brough his diskbraked monster down and I believe won a race. Not sure which, but i saw his big trophy box as he headed back from collecting it up.
TT took 2 seconds i believe his first weekend back to summit. That du can ride through some traffic. So, im not sure, but this may tie whatevs for the caferacer.net cup. I belive hes taken 4 podiums and more wins then anyone here. I think tts either running in third, or tied for 2nd.
See you in june!!!