VIR ???

[wvracer97]

VIR was fantastic!! :D

The weather held Friday and Saturday, and it felt good to get out and race after five years off.  I was on a Honda 600RR and eeked out a 10th in AM GTU.  In the GTO I was doing great until the red flag came out and we had a 3 lap dash to the checkers.  I decided to break WAY too late into seven and missed the turn completely :-[  Damn, (it's bumpy out there in the grass)!  So there I went from fifth to last with two laps to go.  I ended up picking off nine bikes in those two laps to finish 19th.  Not so bad after 5 years off, new bike, new track?? :-/  I'm looking forward to Summit on the 1st where I hope to meet more of you!!!
Hey Ray-- you out there Bad Monkey?!?

[bmfgsxr]

yep, as dave mentioned timmy is 312. in fact, peanut you stopped at our pits and i met ya.

anyhow, after missing friday practice due to our rig breaking down in maryland on thursday night  >:( >:(, i didnt have any practice time on the track. my two races on saturday were my only practice. i started to feel good on sunday and grabbed 9th in mwsb and 8th in hwsb getting my times down to the 36's. if i had more time i know 35's would have been there, and maybe even dipping into some high 34's.. oh well, next time i guess. each session out my times were dropping and considering i only have about 70 laps around that track total i still have a pretty good learning curve to break through. hopefully ill be fast enough to mix it up with you guys the next time. good job fellas.

[Peanut]

good to meet you guys.  tim is a great rider, we had a few battles out there, and he rode solid all weekend.  he backs it in to 7 and sometimes 1, man it looked sweet!

i got to tell this story, (i've been telling it every since i got back..lol.).  

so tim and i are going back and forth in the gtu on sat.  i'm a little quicker around 2-4 and he's a great breaker in 1 and 7 , so we see-sawed for a number of laps.  we come up on a guy going down the hill into turn 15-16.  he's leading (i tried to slip through in 14 but he shut the door, ;)) so i'm waiting for him to go through on the guy so i can follow and see if i can finally step up and grow some balls on the brakes in 1.  

well being the experienced EX rider he is he waited to go through!  i was like come-on come-on go!!  but he had a plan for me.  he waited until we entered 16 and then popped through, standing the guy up in my line in the process!  after cussing a bit, i said out loud, "man that was a good move"!  i was getting tired and he got so far out that the race was over for me, my fight was gone.

now some of you guys might say, "were you been nut people use lappers all the time", but i haven't seen it for myself.  pretty cool.  those EX are tricky!   lol.

[bmfgsxr]

yep, he knows that track pretty well. he has over 1500 laps on that track and he is a talented rider. and as i said before im hoping to pick it up a bit more so i can mix it up with you guys. i had some good battles myself this weekend. in the mwsb race i went into t1 with rider 714 with my head and shoulder pressed against his bike the entire way around. since i was on the outside i got on the gas quicker and after one lap i looked back and he was gone. but until that one turn we were battling pretty good.

[Super Dave]

Greg....

You need a new avatar.

[r6_philly]

I wish had something cool to report about myself, but there isn't much... mainly cuz it didn't rain  ;D

Good job peanut and greg, make us rookie experts look good.

Good battling with you scott, thanks for the VP money  :D

I will see you guys at summit  :) I think I will have more to say about there 8)

[quicktoy]

Scott almost had my ass in the HW SS race, but i held off and got a second, my first expert wood...yeaaaaa...Peanut looked fricken incredible out there

[GregR6]

...each session out my times were dropping and considering i only have about 70 laps around that track total i still have a pretty good learning curve to break through.

Well that makes me feel better. I only have about 300 laps there... 3 track days and now 3 race weekends. But really it's quality more than quantity... I learned a lot more and took more effort going from 36's to 34's this time out with the experts, than I did my first time going from 40's to 38's

How many laps you have Peanut?  :P

[quicktoy]

HEY GREG, LOOK IN THE BACKGROUND OF THIS PICK http://www.streetsourcemag.com/uploads/Ownerprofiles/quicktoy/103200355013AM16871.jpg

[GregR6]

HEY GREG, LOOK IN THE BACKGROUND OF THIS PICK http://www.streetsourcemag.com/uploads/Ownerprofiles/quicktoy/103200355013AM16871.jpg

I remember that!

[quicktoy]

I had to win that race to get the HWSS championship, i had checked out after first lap, and now u see what happened LOL

[GregR6]

I was like "holy shite!  :o that guy is on a mission!!"
60 was fast as hell too, but I was trying to hang with him.

I remembered trying to outbrake you in 1 on the first lap. Usually I'd win that battle... but you weren't giving an inch!  ;D