ATTENTION IN THE HADDOCK!!! - Big Fish Small Pond

[JettaJayGLS]

Btw...jake did a great job dealing with traffic. Was pretty impressive to watch!

He always is super super clean. My favorite move I saw him make was the inside of me into the bowl and then right after the inside of another guy into 9. Inside into 9 has never even crossed my mind.

[csmutty]

Inside of 9 might be more viable with vintage. Some of them like to take a wider apex.

[Paul_E_D]

Ya, I used the inside of nine almost every lap!

[Rada]

Working traffic was one of the fun parts of this race.. Really there is nothing not fun about it...

[nt650hawk]

Next year, we will do one of three things:

1) Check with everyone on the correct pressures for the tires we use (if Pirellis). We ended up being a few pounds over what seems to be the sweet spot for the new Pirelli V2 DOT tires.

2) Adjust the suspension to accommodate the Pirelli tires.

3) Use Gino's preferred tire brand (which I cannot say, as my tongue would fall out if I did).

In any event, all 3 of us felt the same sidewall "wiggle", which seems to be due to the rear tire being a few pounds too high. Even though Pirelli officially hasn't changed the recommended pressure between the original and V2 tires.

If the 3 of us had run consistently 1 second faster per lap, we would have been on the same lap.

pretty sure we were not on the v2. just pirelli supercorsa sc2's that Wore perfectly

[Paul_E_D]

In the pictures it looked like you had too LITTLE pressure in there. Soft sidewall, *cough*big*cough* riders=extra air???

[csmutty]

I didn't have any problems with traction once I got settled in on it.

[rolker]

Speaking of Pirellis, I got to thank MTAG for putting on fresh rubber on the RS125 at the end of the last track days. Managed to get 2 victories, including the endurance race, and a 3rd on the 125 and 2 other victories on the EX250, which also has Pirellis.

[nt650hawk]

grumble grumble Thanks Mike, I was only able to get 2nd on pie's. hey teammates, how did my bike like the Pie's????

[The Snowman]

grumble grumble Thanks Mike, I was only able to get 2nd on pie's. hey teammates, how did my bike like the Pie's????

The bike hated them. I felt the tire flexing all over the place. Of course, the suspension was set up for Slipstones, so that probably played a big part of it.

[rolker]

BTW thank you in advance to all the team scorers!

Oh yeah...and don't crash in T12A...

Oh, and passing someone while pitting in is apparently another way to get the crowd worked up in the scoring booth...