Mission Raceway - WMRC

[Angus]

Hey all.

This past weekend the WMRC (westwood motorcycle racing club) invited the mini road racers from PCMRC out for "Demo Days". This was similar to the OMRRA inviting the scoots out last June. As we race with the PCMRC at Greg Moore Raceway quite often we thought it would be fun to go with them to the Mission Raceway.

At first the club president was skeptical and said the scoots were not invited to go with the mini road racers but after some emailing by Dayn and posting the video from PIR they said we were welcome.

Dayn and I went out on Saturday and did two practice rounds. The first round I died after two laps and was stranded in the middle of the track. Turned out to be a loose stator wire and I was fine the rest of the day. Dayn had bogging issues and thought it was a jetting problem. After some adjustments we decided to wait until the race which wasn't till the end of the day.

The race was 10 laps. I think the track is somewhere between 1.5 - 1.75 miles. I was worried about running out of gas so i didn't even do the warm up lap. Dayn ran the warm up lap but decided not to grid up due to ongoing engine issues. 9 people started including me, 3 cr85's, 3 250 sport bikes, and a two 100's. I did the whole race but got lapped by everyone except the 100's. My top speed was 83.4 mph which is faster than the supermoto guys but they just kick ass in the corners.

This was a fun track and the president approached the us specifically to let us know that the scooters would be welcome back to race with them next year.

Of course i forgot to turn on my camera so i don't have any vid to share.

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[Angus]

Oh yeah, I did the "victory lap" on fumes. Nothing left in the tank but the fuel filter still had gas in it.

Dayn, I feel bad for you waiting around all day for the race then not getting to run it. Next time buddy. Thanks for hanging with me. At least we accomplished our main goal which was to get the thumbs up from the club for future racing.

[Angus]

Here is a layout of the track. We did it with the light grey corners at turn 9.

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[paddyfitz]

Looks like a lot of straight, but I see that it's only 1.35 miles...
So - maybe the straights aren't actually all that long?

[Dayn]

Well the seemed long when every time I got the revs up my bike started bogging/cutting out....but in reality they are not that long. The main I figure would be a good 4th gear run but the other ones most likely top of 3rd. There are some interesting walls that get pretty dam close at some points but these are proper air walls so the risk is low just a little disconcerting. The corners are a good size and for people just starting out it might actually be less intimidating as you have time to work on corners rather than the rapid pace of the cart tracks. Anyway I like it and can't wait to get back there and give it a proper go. It's definitely bigger than any of the cart tracks but not nearly as big as PIR. I'd say it was about 2x the size of MAC...

Gong to slap a plate on my bike tonight to hopefully sort out what my problem is...

[paddyfitz]

Hmmm... I like the sound of that!