Why do Pacific region members race in SW events?

[duc995@aol.com]

I can understand "track time"...but it isn't even "their" region or count towards "their" championship.  Just curious...I mean, you won't catch me driving to 'Streets' for the last Pacific round. ???

[duc995@aol.com]

...and yes, I am sure it was a stupid question!  Like I said...just curious...

[raptorduck952]

Top 10 Reasons PW guys race SW Region

10. Az and Nv racers are damn fast so make for great racing. (I really mean this one).
9. Firebird and Vegas international are actually near a major city.
8. The resort accross the track in Phoenix.
7. Hedge your bets.
6. Matt Bollman won't come and play in California.
5. Yeski and Blaylock do come to Ca, so payback boys!
4. Vegas strip
3. We can tell folks we are interstate racers.
2. Simon makes me.
1. Three words "open carry law."

 ;) ;D

[amberry]

Ahhh, yes, after a hard weekend of racing the boys like to go to the resort for a relaxing dip in the hot tub and a spa treatment followed by a manicure and pedicure, we like to call it the Pro.ActivePerelliCheekyDragon Racing weekend wind down.  

[SlowDragon]

You forgot to mention the awesome golf.

[r6_philly]

you mean your west coast racers  have money left over for other recreational and other activities after racing???  :o wow how much do you guys make  ;D

[CCSRACER123CCS]

IT's all about trying to kill yourself at Firebird INternational. ;) No, but, it is fun racing with some other people. I think the competition with Blaylock, Yeski, and Brian Hall is great. Well Hall isn't much competition he jsut checks out!

[rick]

Don't foget that alot of the races this year were combined Pacific/Soutwest. Check out the schedule:

Feb 1,2              Streets of Willow  P/SW
March 15,16      Firebird                 P/SW
May 10, 11        Las Vegas              P/SW
May 31, June 1  Streets of Willow   P/SW
July 5,6              Buttonwillow         P/SW
Aug. 1-3             Las Vegas             P/SW
Nov. 1,2            Buttonwillow          P/SW Cancelled

...Plus, some of those tracks are just freakin' fun!
 :)

[raptorduck952]

...Plus, some of those tracks are just freakin' fun!
 :)

Hold on a minute! I know I am not that smat, but nobody told me this racing thing is supposed to be fun.  >:(

[Decreasing_Dave]

Alright John and Amber...

After talking all that schmack about attending SW region events, you're a no-show this past weekend.

Sorry you guys weren't there...I guess we'll see you next season.

Good luck at SoW.

D. Dave

[zx9r-racer]

Alright John and Amber...

After talking all that schmack about attending SW region events, you're a no-show this past weekend.

Sorry you guys weren't there...I guess we'll see you next season.

Good luck at SoW.

D. Dave

Yeah, but Will and Tristan showed up. ;D

Dave, how do you like the addition to my sig.?  Thanks to all of you SW racers for letting this Pacific Region slowpoke take the GTO home.   ;D

[raptorduck952]

Alright John and Amber...

After talking all that schmack about attending SW region events, you're a no-show this past weekend.

Sorry you guys weren't there...I guess we'll see you next season.

Good luck at SoW.

D. Dave

Hey, I decided to give yall an early Christmass present in the form of some championships.  ;DCongrats to you, Doug, Tristian, Blaylock. Now you SW guys return the favor and stay away from Streets. ;) As for Doug and Tristian, see you at Streets. I won't miss that one. I got me a season to finish.

[zx9r-racer]

Yeah, you SW guys stay out of the Pacific region races, will ya! ;D

[CCSRACER123CCS]

I had a good time out at FIrebird. I stayed ahead of Doug for a bit..Brian Hall got mad that you got around me because he wanted the GTO. Thanks to Gregg Spears and Brian Long I was able to win a few class championships. They let me use their back up bike for 3 races after I blew up my bike!! Hopefully I am going to get it fixed before Streets but what is the chance of that!

[zx9r-racer]

I had a good time out at FIrebird. I stayed ahead of Doug for a bit..Brian Hall got mad that you got around me because he wanted the GTO. ....snip...

Well, looking at the lap times, I think I would've caught up to you eventually, but it would've taken quite a while, since you had a good jump on me.  Another awesome start for you, I must say.  

Other than that, all I had to do was finish 6th, in order to take the GTO title.  So, it was pretty much a done deal for me from the start.  What was more frustrating was that I couldn't get past Scott.  He wasn't pulling away, but I also couldn't get by him.  He'd look back, and I'd be right there.  No closer nor further back than I was the lap before.  Grrrrr....oh well.  I had a great time, though. ;D

[Shady182]

Well John i will give you your  wish and stay in AZ for the weekend ;). I had alot of fun racing with all you guys this year. What happend to you this weekend John? I was looking forward to some payback ;D.
Good luck to all you guys going to SOW, And i will see yall next year.

[CCSRACER123CCS]

Hey Doug I knew I couldn't beat you but I thought since I got ahead of Scott I might be able to stay ahead of you, but nope you smoked right by me!

[zx9r-racer]

Yeah, it would've been a struggle to catch you.  Not sure I could've.  Needless to say, I wasn't exactly disappointed when you went straight but should've turned left at that turn.   ;D  But, damn you get good starts...

[SPEARS_RACING]

I had a good time out at FIrebird. I stayed ahead of Doug for a bit..Brian Hall got mad that you got around me because he wanted the GTO. Thanks to Gregg Spears and Brian Long I was able to win a few class championships. They let me use their back up bike for 3 races after I blew up my bike!! Hopefully I am going to get it fixed before Streets but what is the chance of that!

Well Tristan you deserve all of the credit, you rode the bike like a true Champion Congrats on your SW Overall Championship........hmmmm You might even have an engine for the streets!!!!!!!!

[CCSRACER123CCS]

Gregg, I can't thank you enough I really appreciate it! I also would like to congratulate you as well on the overall! Hopefully you will get one more at Streets!

[Bad_Matt]

From what I saw...You do have a  8)motor...hmmm.  Looks like I will be seeing more of that tail section at streets.  Good luck! 8)

[Team_nuclear123]

And one tired azzed crew chief.... ;)

Got home at 4am to a sick daughter.

It was good gettign to hang out with you and Greg and Brian.

[Decreasing_Dave]

Hey...have you guys seen the points for the SW Region??  Either they're messed up, or I benefited well (or both).

They have it that I took the GTU and the MWSS.  Both of which Jon supposed had.  I should have MWSB, but according to the latest points, I don't.

Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmmmm.

[Zac]

More Hmmmm....

Some slow guy like me can manage a 3rd overall in HWSS.  Must be because all those Pac guys didn't show up.  Now I'm gonna have to somehow explain it away on my amatuer petition.

Though I did get my first wood with 4th in HWSS last weekend :D.  Now I have one to put with Elaine's giant stacks.

-z.

[raptorduck952]

What happend to you this weekend John? I was looking forward to some payback ;D.

Truth be told Jon (and Dave), I ran out of money. I was surprised to still come in second overall in the SW region and 2nd in Sportbike after missing 3.5 rounds.

I enjoyed racing with all the SW guys. You AZ guys are fast and fun to race with. I particularly enjoyed racing with you this season Jon.

All my best to you, Dave Yeski, Mat "see you next year" Bollman, Mike Coleman, Kenny Dallas, Justin Van Dyck (where did you dissapear to?), and Wade Sears. Fun racing with all of you. Congrats to Jon and Dave as well for your titles. Well deserved! :)

Congratulations to Tristian for winning the overall title and your class titles. You earned them with hard work, a great crew, and talent. I will see you at Streets. I am not missing that one.

Finally, congrats to my pit mates Simon and Doug for winning Supertwins and GTO titles respectively in the SW region.

[bmgracing]

"Ran out of money" . . . that's my excuse . . . you need to come up with a new one.  I also have the "my bike is wrecked" excuse too.

It was great meeting and racing the Pacific guys.  Hopefully I'll be able to participate in more away races next year so I can listen to more of Simon's sandbagging, Doug's Pirelli advertising (which finally worked because that's what I'm riding on now), and more of your . . . oh that's right you are always riding so I don't get to talk to you much!

Also, please talk to Simon and convince him that Phoenix is a great place to come to and that it is not jinxed.  It was horrifying seeing his brand new Ducati with the belts all torn up . . . especially after only the 1st practice session.

Lastly, you guys need to come down for the new Arizona race series (http://www.azroadracing.com) being run on an awesome track and the payouts are big $$.

Congrats on your finishes this season!

PS - My name was not on the list of people being "bumped" . . . I asked Tiffiney to bump me anyway but she has not responded as of yet.  I would hate it if I became the "cherrypicker".

[raptorduck952]

Hey Matt . . . back off man. I am the champion of lame excuses. Go find your own niche. ;D

Now I spent all season racing to get as fast as you, so you better get bumped so you can so I can finanly hang with you on the track.

Talk about jinx. ALL of my 3 big crashes this year happened at SW races out of the state of California. Hmmm. :o

If you ever make it to San Jose Matt, just remember you have a place to stay. Same goes for Jon, Dave, and Wade.

p.s. Amber is a good a cook as she is beautiful, and she can wrench (better than I actually). I am indeed a very very lucky man.

[SlowDragon]

Firebird is not jinxed??? Mmm......

First race of the year fried a relatively new set of brake pads, ran off in turn 1. Sunday abandoned due to flood. 1600 miles for 1 track day, 3 practice sessions and two races. Returned in April and fried a new clutch. Located a new one, went to install it and it was missing a part. Spent Sunday by the pool - best race weekend of the year!

My latest visit, left SF Thursday at 8:30pm arrived Firebird 11:30am Friday. Went to see the Matrix and had dinner with the Team Nuclear gang (cheers guys!!). First out in practice, slippery track and new slicks. Ride like my granny - even get passed by Matt and Doug  ;D  4 laps in bike makes horrific noise and locks rear wheel going in to turn 1. Push bike back to pits, load and drive home arriving at 1:30am Sunday. Take bike to shop and they found that a bolt had gone through the intake, through the engine, took out 2 exhaust valves on the way out  which caused the brand new (and I mean BRAND NEW) Kevlar belts to fray and flatten camshaft.  

1700 miles for 4 laps, a strange movie, some great karting and a great dinner.

Anyway, I thought Keith won the SW SuperTwins class???

[bmgracing]

Hold on, this is not one of those infamous gas tank bolts is it?  Why the hell is a bolt bouncing around in the airbox?  Further, you certainly have one of those air filters that fit over the stacks instead of just using the crappy stock air filters that fit in the snorkels right?

I am really sorry you've had bad luck down here in Phoenix, but please don't give up on us yet.  Kicking your ass on that new shiny Ducati has me so pumped up for next year!  Just kidding, I'll be meeting up with you in CA sometime soon . . . I owe you that much.  Good luck out at Streets if you get the bike together!

[SlowDragon]

Hi Matt

Mmm....that GSXR looks far too scary to race against. I think I'll just hang out (or is that hide?) in the SuperTwins class. Look forward to seeing you next year and having that beer we were threatening. Missing that on Saturday night was worse than having to miss the race!!

The bolt is not a Duc one so it must have come up off the track and unfortunately the shower injectors make fitting a filter difficult, other than the intake ones. The bike has mesh across the intakes now  ::)

Have a good off-season and try not to get any faster.

[Rrider]

Simon, sorry about the bolt thing, but even more sorry about missing the beer with you!

I'm using the Casoli Moto filter on my R but it's 748R specific- it clamps up between the airbox halves. If you see how many rubber chunks, rocks and other crap collect on top of my filter- it's crazy! I don't think your bike has the 748R two piece airbox but Casoli also makes a filter for the 998 shower injector bikes:
http://66.216.117.7/browseproducts/CORSE-PRESSURIZED-PERFORMANCE-AIR-FILTER(996R-998R).HTML

Another filter that looks pretty good is the Pipercross and this would fit any of the shower injector bikes. It doesn't have as much filter area as the Casoli versions, but it doesn't take up as much airbox volume so it shouldn't hurt power much. Motowheels sells this one:
http://www.motowheels.com/italian/myproducts.cfm?parentcategoryid=8%7CEngine&productID=2287&showDetail=1&categoryID=16|Ducati%204%20valve&vendoridtodisplay=0&filterFor=&collection=168%7CItalian%20Motorcycle%20Parts

One heck of a link, huh?

Anyway, did you get the bike back together in time for the Vegas track thing?

Later!
Gary

[SPEARS_RACING]

And one tired azzed crew chief.... ;)

Got home at 4am to a sick daughter.

It was good gettign to hang out with you and Greg and Brian.

DR.Duc, Sorry to hear about your little one...... :(If you get a chance Please call me ,I want to see how things went........

[Mark_Weiss]

As long as SW region is the subject of the moment, does anyone know if the CCS/LP practice days are going to continue next season? Should T.E.A.M. Arizona look into picking up some of the Fridays? Which dates would be most favorable?

Mark
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[Decreasing_Dave]

As long as SW region is the subject of the moment, does anyone know if the CCS/LP practice days are going to continue next season? Should T.E.A.M. Arizona look into picking up some of the Fridays? Which dates would be most favorable?

Mark
#407

Mark,

According to Randy at the rider's meeting...there will still be LP USA Sportrider Days.  However, they will be on Saturday (as usual) but so will our practice.  I guess there will be NO racing on Saturday...only practice and LP Days.  Hopefully that will mean LOTS of track time...cheap.  But who knows.