Sept. 11 practice @ the Mac Track

[paddyfitz]

From the almighty Kurt Windisch smugmug site:



(I had to - he has his knee down!) ;D ;D















Really - it's not that I'm feeling particularly narcissistic. Jesse & I were the only scooter & moped out there for the practice day.
Race day was a different story, but those are still loading.

[Dayn]

Nice! How did the racing go? How many showed and who finished where? Looks like a Pipe switch Patrick, how is it working out for you?

Cheers,

Dayn

[paddyfitz]

Yep - switched back to the Ludwig&Scherer 55 pipe.
It could use some further tuning as I still don't have the mid & high power that I did before. The bottom end torque is up, though - so I end up seeing more of 4th gear. I don't feel much faster, but the rate of gear changes makes me think it might be...?
Grids on race day-wise the mopeds were the ruling class for sure.
I think they had a grid of 12?
Scooters had a grid of 4...
I'm under the impression that there were a lot of other things going on that weekend for our usual local crew...
British guy Ben (Sugarlump) from the smallframe forum was here & hung out w/ us @ the track for the 2 days as part of his cross country ride. That was a real treat.
I had a pretty sweet lowside crash on race day during the GP72 class race. I'm waiting to see if there are pictures of that.
Weather was criminally gorgeous & not too hot.
A decent crowd of local spectators came out to watch the carnage & cheer us on. They even helped us clean up at the end of the day. Big props to that.
Still awaiting more pics from the actual race day...