Race Report – CCS at Gateway June 22-24
Yes, it was a month ago, but I’m been slacking on my blogging! Actually, it was a pretty rough weekend, so I don’t have the usual long, detailed post.
Friday was an MCRA track day. We had a few too many “incidents” with riders coming together and crashing in the morning, but in the afternoon it was much better. I got 5th in the MCRA race at the end of the day, turning mostly 1:12s and high 1:11s on tires that were pretty much done. I had fun, but was looking forward to the race weekend.
Saturday is a practice day, and actually I was little unhappy because I couldn’t get back into the 1:11s straight way. I had new tires, better gearing, and a few tweaks to the suspension that had that bike feeling better, but I didn’t get into the 1:11s until my last session. Hmm…
Sunday was basically a wash, no pun intended. Right before my first race of the day, it started POURING. Seriously, check out the post on puredanger.com for some pics Alex took. The long and short of Sunday was that I entered 4 races, yet only raced in one because that was the only time the track was dry. Skipped first 2, raced the 3rd (got 8th place after folllowing a dude for most of the race, turned a 1:11.4 when I got around him), then it started pouring again before my 4th. Day done, major bummer.
Hopefully the next time we take the GSXR on a trip the rains will stay away!!!
