WMRRA 7/8-7/9

The past weekend was a blast....it was the first time my team and I have been to Spokane Raceway. The track is around a 2 1/2 miles long and features a monstorus straight-a-way mixed in with various swooping left and right handers and 1 crappy super sharp lefty (turn 6). But first thins first.... I`d like to give a big thanks to my teammate Josh for letting me use his ride while mine is being repaired from the last race weekend. So back to the track, my first impression of Spokane is that it looks pretty dangerous because there is practically no run off for crashing. This kind of made me think twice about pushing hard for the weekend along with the fact that I`m not riding my own bike and DID NOT want to crash it and have to fix it . So the game plan for the weekend was to just finish and not get caught up trying to race with the other riders. The race day started off on a down side, I never got a chance to give Josh`s bike the once over and took it straight to tech. Well there were several things wrong with the bike, it was missing saftey wire on the brakes, front wheel axel, oil drain plug, and rear axel clip, but the biggest problem was that a nut was missing from the swing arm axel!!! I ended up missing the first practice session trying to find someone in the pits that may have that nut for the swing arm. I was not having much luck because its not really something that you would bring to the track as a spare. After going through about 6 pits and 2 vendors I found someone that had the nut (big thanks to Todd Horn of HDFFC racing) and could finally pass tech. I was able to get in the second practice session of the day for novice and just putted around to get a feel for the track at the same time all I could think about was how much it would suck to dump my buddies bike and have to fix it. I made sure that I didn`t push at all because the tires on the bike were just about bald and were sliding at a pretty slow speed. Oh well just go out there and finish.......I ended up finishing the first race 10th out of 22 on Saturday. Sunday turn out to be soooo hot, I was afraid that these bald tires would end up super greasy...ah what ever I`ll just go out there and have fun and finish. "Well the tires didn`t have much traction" I thought to myself as the rear tire started sliding in T2, well I`m just going to have to go slower. It was kind of shitty watching a bunch of other riders go by me but fuk it......I wasn`t about to dump the bike because I felt like I shouldn`t be passed. I ended up finishing 12th. Regardless I had a great time and met more cool people in the pits and I`m looking forward to putting my bike back on the track!

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