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Mon, 16 Jun 2008
OMRRA Round 3 Report

I am T-I-R-E-D!!! Luckily we had good weather but there is something about the heat that takes it out of you. So I'm beat. I'll keep this short for now.

Thanks to Mike Gray for help in the pits on Sunday during races. Thanks to Amy for help in the pits on Saturday during practice. Thanks to her parents for coming out and seeing what I do.

Thanks to sponsors...Competition Motors, Michelin, Acme Motowear, Zlock Racing, Lockhart Phillips, Cycle gear, SB motorsports, and Moto bits.

With this being a conflict weekend with WMRRA we were without the presence of Dan, Dale, and Oliver. Your company was definitely missed this weekend. Hope all went well in Seattle.

Now onto to results.

450 Clubman 1st Place

First race of the day...and it was a fun race for about 4 laps. Jeffrey Thompson was super motivated to give a race (a) he was feeling really good from Saturday practice and (b) Phil Holden was down from Canada. Phil is the former LS Champion who hasn't raced here in like 4 years and his bike is very similar to Jeffrey's. So he got the jump on me at the start. Like I've stated before when he's motivated he can definitely put some good lap times down. I was able to pass him when he went a little wide out of 4...but back he came on the front straight. We diced liked that for about 4 laps and it was just flat FUN...when in T4 when I was right on him trying to get a good drive down the back...he lost the rear. He spun out of the way but his bike was RIGHT in front of me...I put on the binders. Realistically I was thinking I was going to jump his bike...but at the last second it spun out of the way. Thankfully he was unhurt and the bike suffered little damage. I went hard for a few more laps until I could see no one was really behind me so I stepped it back and brought it home upright.

450 Superibike 7th

Got a decent start and was with Matt Gougler and Geoff Ford for the first few laps. Mark and David were just ahead of us...and I was thinking we could possibly catch up with them. But they broke contact as they started to dice with Greg Levin. It was a fun race going back and forth with Matt and I was able to hold him off at the end.

Lightweight Superbike 2nd

My goal this race was to try and keep contact with Travis...but he dusted us first lap out. I ended up dicing with Matt Taylor from the Smallbore classic grid. There were a few moments there when I wasn't too sure this was the smartest thing since we both are racing from different grids...but it was fun so we kept going at each other. I'd pass here...he'd pass me back there. His bike had a little motor on me...but I'd gain through 2 and 3. It came down to the last lap and I was able to put a pass on him into 1 and make it stick. It wasn't for position...but it was definitely fun to run with someone. This is the fastest time on the SV500 of 1:21.806. Unfortunately the rest of the lap times were in the 1:23 range...so I have a lot to do to catch up with Travis. But a few track days and hopefully I can maybe give him a race next time around.

Posted 00:17

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Nice report, and nice racing. I didn't realize you nearly had bike-jumping experience, THAT would have been interesting!
Posted by Kevin P.


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