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I knew this before from my Drunkathon and trackday experiences but I just had to let you all know after my first race weekend.
It was great being surrounded by such a great group! I now know the camraderie of the racer culture and it is just priceless.
My pit mates were excellent, everyone helped each other to make bike changes and learn the ropes and such, Special thanks to Scott, Brian, Gino, Chris, Lauren, Ryan and the Panamania Prince Erasamo plus the signifigant others and people who stopped into our pit area. Just Awesome!
Wanna give a shout out to Mabe, DNF, Cheap Bastids and Low Down racing teams. It was great seeing you guys at and on the track (Although I hated seeing Clayton and Pete's Crash) It was nice to get passed by people I knew that run in my classes... It was also nice passing some of you (Cough, Unclefucker, cough)
As for my racing... well I didn't stall on any of my starts and actually think I did well there... Freaky thing going into one and getting passed by ALL the motards grided BEHIND you. I had a mantra while I was racing, "Just stay on your line, just stay on your line"
I finished all my races...Even when Puppet threw his bike at me coming out of turn 2 to try to take me out (glad your ok man!). I think I placed 18th out of 27, 15 out of 17 in my class, 12th out of 15, 5th out 0f 6 in my class and 8th out of 12, 3rd in my class. The 3rd sounds good but there were only 3 guys in the race So I was last in one race and 2nd and 3rd to last in my other races Leaves ALOT of room for improvement.
My best lap time was a 1:33 on saturday in the dry and it felt great! I just have to remember that feeling and repeat that and I will be up in the top 10 in that race. My fastest laps were faster than 2 or 3 guys ahead of me fastest laps, If I can just get consistent... I'll get there
I learned a ton in the pits, cornerworking and on the track. Thanks to all the contributed in my learning... Now if you all could just put your screen names on your leathers or bike... I am so bad with names.
One more thing... I am SO glad to hear that Silverdragon is bumping! He was making us Novices look silly! Congrats man!