Screamin YellO Race Report September, 2007
Screamin YellO Race Report September, 2007
The Final event of the season took place last weekend. The Central Roadracing Association held its 5th event that included 15 sprint races on Saturday and the annual 5-hour Endurance Race on Sunday.
We only ran 3 races on Saturday because, well, I'm old! I chose to run Unlimited Supersport, Unlimited Superbike, and Unlimited GP classes. Even though I'm down on Horsepower to the Unlimited bikes I find these to be the most fun classes and riders to race against. I managed to finish with a 9th, 8th, and 11th place respectively in those races.
Sunday brings a level of stress akin of a Shuttle launch. There is a mad scramble to get registered in the morning between 7:30am and 9:00am, get a Pit assigned, and setup, and get all of the things you need in your pit to the correct area, not to mention get practice for 5 guys, then change tires to start the race at 12:00 noon. For the first time in 6 years I did not plan on running the 5-hour, but as often happens on Saturday night at the track someone needed a rider and I was recruited to run with Team RockPaperScissors. RPS consisted of Myself as Captain, Anthony Galager, Chirstian Schmidt, Nick Olsen, and fellow SYR Darren Hickey. We ran Anthony's Suzuki SV650 in the GP2 class. I started the race at noon (If you have never witnessed a standing start with four weightlcasses of bike at the same time, it is a cool scene). I rode 21 laps to start and we right up with the leaders tied for 2nd place at the first pitstop. Our next rider had a little trouble 4 laps into his stint and visited the earthen mess outside of Turn 8. We were able to get the bike back to the pits for repairs but the damage was done. We lost 50 minutes in the pits, and all of our competitors suffered no bad luck at all (that's racin!) . We finished but about 10 laps off the box this year.
As I put the wraps in 2007 and look back at a wonderful season that saw new personnal bests in laptimes, as always new skills to work on in the off-season. On a sad note I will be leaving Screamin YellO Racin after 5 years. New Opportunities that have been presented me with Trackaddix have lead to the Split. I wish to thank Darren, Pete, Jake, Nick, Brad, Sean, and Troy for a great team expereince and wish them all of the best.
2007 Highlights for Mark Miller 88
CRA 31st Overall Expert (out of 96 experts)
Unlimited GP 4th Place for the Season
Hired as the Cheif Riding Instructor for Trackaddix Northern Region