Your first race weekend?

[BMFR6]

So, with all the new racers and everyone talking about being happy or discouraged with their times, I went back and took a look at mine for giggles. Apparently I took a second in my rookie race..... but at the bottom it says I left with the wrong wave. I don't recall either of those things happening, oh well.

Rookie Race 1:35
LWSS 1:32.8

How did the rest of you do the first go around?

Historical infor here
http://www.lrrsracing.com/race.htm

[Honclfibr]

PTWN April 2006: 1:42.208

And yes, that was in the dry

[OreoGaborio]

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My rookie race was uneventful & my times were up near the 1:37-40 range....

But I had an awesome battle in my first ptwins race with Biggles & Tom Joyce. Man, what a rush that was. Came from behind, passing both of them in turn 3, first biggles, then Tom, and took first place with a best of 1:29.3.... The three of us finished within .5 seconds of each other with The Fat One just one second behind us!

[a13x]

May 2005
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1st Place LW Rookie Race - 1:32.9
5th Place Ultralight Superbike - 1:26.0

Honda Hawk, no prior track experience.

[Pittenger5]

Mine dont exist.

[lrrs699]

last years loudon classic: bone stock bike

rookie race 3rd place 1:30

1:29 best lap

when i look back i think man i sucked

[RyanNicholson]

August 2006

Rookie Race - 1:29.673 (DQ'd for going with Martire )
MWSS - 1:26.774 (21st place!)
MWSB - 1:25.594

no prior track experience

[Paul_E_D]

Looks like June of 2000 was my first weekend. Rookie race data wasn't recorded at that time. I ran 1:39-1:35s on a clapped out 89 EX500 with bias ply 16 inch tires.

[Crash Dummy Denno]

April 2008
Rookie race 1:29.415 2nd place
mwsb 1:26.452 5th place

[seth399]

last fall first time at the track on borrowed 600rr, did penguin school.

rookie race- 6th place and I got best of 1.32 that weekend probably in the 2nd race I did which I don't even remember what it was

[CMG241]

April 08
Penguin school - crashed in practice 1 hr before rookie race, trashed bike and ego

May 08
Rookie Race 1:33.049 6th place
Race 3 MWSB - rain / chickened out

June16
MWSB 1:26.827 16th place out of 31

[butcher bergs]

July 19, 2008

Rookie Race - 1:25.779 (2nd*)

MWSB - 1:25.823 (11th)
HWSS - 1:24.973 (7th)
MWSS - 1:23.841 (think I finished 5th but the results are linked to the wrong race)

*The deal was, if I won the Rookie Race I'd have to wear "douchebag" across my helmet for the rest of the season. I decided to slide into 2nd and cruise.

[smf]

august 06:
1:27.60*
stock-motored honda hawk. never seen loudon before.

*raced a little in the mid 90's at summit point, wv. 7 years away almost to the day.

[s a x m a n]

April 2006
HWSS (17th Place) 1:26.264
MWSS (12th) 1:25.855
MWSB (12th) 1:25.212


Many Track Days prior

[daviid]

2006 Classic
LWSM - (15th) 1:34.278
PTWN - ( 6th) 1:34.184
GTL - (22nd) 1:34.185

[lrrs313]

April 2006

Rookie Race -
1:37.9

LSPM
12th (out of 19) 1:35.6

Motard
6th (out of 7) 1:33.6

Super Singles
3rd (out of 3) 1:33.4

[Rambunctous]

I read em all. Just awesome reading. It was like I was there. Hey, I was. Still am too. Just as enthused as ever. Thanks All!!

[Evil_Weasel]

hmm, not sure what my rookie race time was, but i did blow turn 3 on the second lap, motarded up the beach and jumped the curb back onto the track.

my first ever real race was MWSB on the buell. i had an awesome, full race long, 3 way battle with 2 other rookies in order to avoid last place. (i finshid 3rd from last, but it sure felt like i won) it was freakin sweet.

best time that weekend was a 1:36 something.

no prior track experiance.

[KB]

I guess my 1:30 first time out on the SV wasn't so bad afterall??

KB

[Rambunctous]

My first race I got off the bike and said to myself " Holy Cow, I never went so friggin fast ever in my life. That's crazy". A 1:35.

[nt650hawk]

1st 433 TONY SOUCIER 87.435 DUC SS 800 AM-ULSB
2nd 929 EUGENE BERRIO 87.211 HON HAWK 647 AM-ULSB



We swapped positions 3 time on the last lap. He got me at the S/F line by .086 seconds on his big Duc 800. My 50 hp VS 75-80hp. I brought a jack knife to a gun fight.

[13]

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Wow, tony was "novice" way back then?

[nt650hawk]

Wirelessly posted (my phone: Mozilla/4.1 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; ) 400x240 LGE VX10000)

Wow, tony was "novice" way back then?

Progression take time Brother Giga.

[nmendell]

Rookie race: 1:34.854 (3rd place!)
LWSB -- 1:30.417
GTL -- 1:28.029
LWGP -- 1:28.406
TBK -- 1:27.006

[RyanNicholson]

be interesting to compare these times to people's PB's and when they set them... see how long it took to get there.