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The weekend started Thursday night with getting to the track for penguins Friday Basic school. I was hoping to get tires in the evening, but the tire guys were done by the time I got there. The stress of the weekend started to build when I missed half the first session getting a new front tire. The class is time consuming and a little boring if your familiar with the track. It started to sprinkle duding the second session and I went down in three, riding like it wasn't wet on dunlops. That caused me to miss the third session putting the bike back together. I slapped the rains on for the rest of practice and it went well. The licensing took until about 830 then then I had to move my bike to the rookie novice garage. At 11:00p I found out it wasn't the rookie garage and was booted to I had to move my stuff. I put it by the door but in an empty garage and expected to be kicked out of that in the morning. The guys were cool and let me stay for the weekend, but the other rookies were outa luck. There is some kinda miss-communication going on with that. Anyway the rain ended early on saturday but delayed practice so I had plenty of time to tech my bike, then when I got out and practice was dry.
Anyway, into the meat and sweet potatoes. The rookie race was fun, I ran away at the start and didn't look back. I caught the 600 wave before the end of the first lap and worked my way through that until the checkered waved.
Race 7 Novice Formula 3. I got the whole shot and let the race picking off the 600's kinda like the rookie race.
Race 10 Novice formula 2. This one was against the 600's so I was a little out gunned. I made it into turn one I think 14th. I passed a few and finished the first lap in 12th and made my way up to 7th by the end of the race. Turn 1 was cray, 600's are tough to pass, but I was playing around with a motard most of the race.
End of day 1. I'm confident, happy and ready and anxious for the next day.
Day 2 practice is good. First practice was a bit cold so I took it easy for 29's then brought it up to 27s for second practice.
Race 4 Novice starter 3. I had high hopes for this race. I planned to dice it up with 345 and try and make some 25s for lap times. I got second on the whole shot and had 829 in my sights. He rode a funny line through 2 and braked late into three, I assume so he wouldn't get passed, anyway it killed his drive towards 6 where I passed him over the hill into first. That's when HE TOOK ME THE FUCK OUT. Watch the video. It was suggested from riders behind me that he tried to come back behind and under me for 6 but I just think he is a crazy asshole who rides like shit. It made me not want to continue and I'm still wondering if I will race again after such bullshit.
The video isn't edited yet. Possibly nsfw because of my angered post crash language. I'll try to shorten it tomorrow.
I miss race 9 putting my bike back together. It was gonna be against the 600's again.
Race 11 Novice rookie three. It got red flagged a couple of times for I don't know what. 829 got the holeshot both starts with me in second. I passed him into the bowl on the inside again on the second lap, but luckily he didn't punish me for it and slam my rear wheel again. Maybe if he was more concerned with riding instead of winning he wouldn't get passed. Anyway I got caught up in some of the amateurs traffic and both 829 and 345 got by me. They duked it out for first cutting through the amateurs and lapper novices with me on their tail. I was a little gun-shy about getting taken the fuck out again so I hung back and finished third. But, 345 won so I was happy about that.
A lot of people helped me out this weekend and it was full of highs and lows. I really appreciate the help and the racing was fun, but I can't get over the bullshit grossness that went on. I know I'm not the only one who gets the bad end of a dirty move, and it scares me that I may be on the other side sometime and hurt someone, maybe even more than getting taken out again. In writing this I'm obviously still a little pissed off at what went down and maybe that will cool down and I''l want to do it again, but I feel right now that was probably my first and last lrrs weekend.