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Well I am home from my race weekend. I went up there thursday during the day for open practice and have to say Thursday is by far the best deal on track time I have found so far. 100 dollars for 4 hours of track time. Two groups so you never are waiting longer than 20 minutes.
I did my runs on thursday and felt like I was making progress with my speed and cornering. Just when I was really getting into the groove of the track and the bike open practice was over.
Chilled in the infield on thurday night and as soon as the sun went down it got cold really fast. Ended up meeting up with some other racers from connecticut and ny who were burning a fire. Good time up until about 12 oclock when I turned in.
Did I mention that it was about 30 degrees up there thursday night and I was sleeping in a tent. Definitely not the best time Ive ever had. Froze my nuts off and ended up changing and wearing all the clothes I brought with me so I could kind of stay warm.
Friday morning and I was ready for some riding. The wait until 2:30 was killing me it seems like it was taking forever and I just wanted to get out there and ride.
Finally my time to ride came and I was ready to go. During the first lap I felt like I was picking up where I left off yesterday I was making good speed and good lines. I got through one lap and the got stuck behind a slow rider going into turn 1. Couldnt pass in 1A so I decided to go to the wall on 2 and take them. I took them and hit fourth gear. I started coming up to the cones for turn 3 so I decided to downshift.
I downshifted into 3rd and heard what I thought was the clutch missing the gear and then felt no drive on the bike. At this point I drove my bike off the track and behind the tires. I looked down and saw my chain hanging. No big deal I can get the chain back on the sprocket and be out there next session right........ WRONG
When the chain flew off the sprocket it managed to cause a decent amount of damage. It broke my clip on, sheared some of the bolts on my sprocket, and most imporant and damaging part cracked my engine case. Engine case was cracked and leaking oil into the belly pan. So with no way to fix the engine for the rest of the weekend I called it a night and here I am back at home.
Met a few NESR's today before my unfortunate accident. Hopefully next time I can actually stick around the whole weekend.
So in closing anyone have a 1999-2002 r6 engine they scavenged parts off? I need to get an R6 left side engine case so I can have my engine rebuilt.
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Your belly pan will catch the oil (it did Friday) if it fails.
