Track was perfect Friday night after they chisel plowed.
Knowing the lines of red on the radar coming, I don’t think any of us could understand why the hell they didn’t seal that up ?
and of course vet 30, moto 1. The guinea pigs. Send me out there for 6-7 laps see how many bikes grenade.
I literally made it 1 lap. Could smell the coolant. Couldnt see s**t. Figured I shut her down wait for the checker to stave off a DNF. Grand scheme of things I should of just pulled off and pressure washed. Didn’t know you went to the consi if you didnt finish the heat. Apparently you do.
So then, after two water barrels to clean the bike and assessing the damage 1 lap did, and consulting the weather man (more red bands coming 80% chance of rain overnight) said forget the consi, went back to the truck, put the kid on my back and had a few beers and watched the remaining onslaught of smoked clutches, coolant pissing, paddle walkers make their way around the track.
for those that got a ticket. Well deserved, only cost them $8399 plus tax title and freight.
Fast forward to Saturday morning same thing. Vet 30 guinea pigs...another 7 lap race. Bikes smoking and letting go everywhere. Then they said ok 2 laps and that’s it, will cut 3rd motos. No wait then we will run 3rd motos. Hang on it’s raining again. Let’s just get the motos To 4 laps not 2. (Ok fuggit, apparently just race to the checkered because even thoughts at this place are “convenience flags”) This place changed their minds more than Christie’s cabaret changes the stage talent in a night.
Wildcat provided water thank god. They have a raceabke track. Tomahawk charging for water that had to be a nightmare. If wild cat woulda done that, I’m sure people probably woulda left. Would of cost $500 to fill up the barrels for the weekend.
I think when tracks get a regional they get this wierd idea they gotta lay down tons of mulch and sand. They gotta be something else, when reallty these tracks just need to run their damn program on their native soil without trying new big bold things in the name of a regional. The base there was nice.
Some of you maybe wondering: “And how do we all know that the track would of shaped up fine if they wouldn’t of dug 24 inches deep Friday night ?” Because they never tOuched the start. And It was glorious, nice. No water splashing until you got to turn one when it was thick soup—-where they started the 24 inch chisel plowing.
hope they learned something out of this because the facility is nice. Level pits. Sprayed off lanes. The water was very helpful. Great track Friday afternoon. Very raceable, nothing dangerous. Owner was nice. You just wonder what the stress of a regional plays and if it influences making decisions that on a normal race day you’d never make.