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Practice sessions- Usually I never make the 1st one but this time I manage to get out there and do a couple wet laps. really not much to do here so I just Site see and try to come up with a better plan for turn 1. 2nd session went by without incident and I was just upset that I didn't get to try anything at race speed.
Race 1 GTU- Got an okay start and made a few mistakes by blowing the turns trying to be aggressive. I totally got stuffed into turn 3 by a little asian kid. I believe his name is chun eung or something....rides a rs 125 I think. I was all jammed up after that and then we got red flagged. The restart went okay and about 3 laps into it the little bugger stuffs me again! I was laughing to myself on this one and was trying to catch up to the lead pack and to try and return the favor. Never saw the lead guys again.......I always had a few instances were I would catch up by out braking them but everything would be ruined by being in the wrong gear and having no drive. I would say every swear in the book watching those guys pull away and thinking to myself "is it really that hard to be in the right gear??? this is basic riding stuff". I finished in the middle of the pack around 5th I think.
Race 11- Same excuses here. Starts were okay and passed 1 or 2 guys but was never in contention for the front pack as I was always in the wrong gear and getting no drive. I had to laugh as I saw and had to dodge so much debris as it dropped off peoples bikes. Again-just found myself in the middle of the pack and finished without incident around 5th.
My goal was to break below 1:30 this year and yes I did that and have started to consistently get into the 27s. I set a PB of 1:27.1 but I also wanted to bump up to amatuer this year. I don't think that will happen with very low indexes and even if it did I won't challenge even the last person with such high lap times. This year I didnt do one track day and that was why I saw a lot of guys in my races bump up and finish high while I showed up on race day and tried to figure it out on the fly. Due to my line of work I can only attend so many races a year anyway.... Next year I will swear to get more practice and track days under my belt as I know I am capable of way better.
Thanks to Denno and the guys at boston moto. When I switched to pirelli I was instantly a lot better and also thanks to bill tanzey for track help. What sucks is april is so far away.........
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