[Degsy]

Well, Scott is at home recovering so that his knee swelling can go down. then he can have an MRI to check for ligament damage.

The bike will be going off to GMD for a check for straighness and for new spool holders to be welded on the swingarm, then it will probably come over to my garage for about $800 worth of Woodcraft stuff to be fitted (clip on, engine cases, rearsets etc).

It's a shame, because Scott has entered this race twice now. His first time was last race weekend, a crashed bike sent up some debris that pierced Scott's radiator, sending water/water wetter all over the front wheel and causing him to crash in 3. Then this weekend he gets t-boned in 3, while mid turn.

He only enters F40 as it's supposed to be a gentleman's class where the racing isn't so damn furious. At this rate, he may as well enter the meatgrinder class.

I have said it before and I'll say it again, mixing different types of bikes in the same race is a recipe for disaster. In order to pass on the corners, the 2 strokes and motards are forced to make more and more risky moves. The bikes take different lines and there end up being converging points. In this instance, there wasn't even a wheel shown, it was pure "I'm faster and I'm going through you" mentality. I could see it coming from the 1st cone in the turn 3 chute, he went past about 5 bikes under way too heavy, way too late braking and just assumed that everyone would check up for him, which they did. The only trouble was that Scott and one other guy were already in the corner. the other guy missed running over Scott's head by about an inch. The motard hit Scott's bike square on from the right and the two bikes slid with the motard on top for about 10 feet.

I have ridden them all, 2 strokes, motards and middleweights and they all take different approaches to passing due to specifics of geometry and power. Put the 3 together in a race and it's going to be a problem unless the people racing them are seasoned racers who know how to pass and when to pass. For Novice classes, they should keep the different types of bikes separate.