VIR ???

[Peanut]

How many laps you have Peanut?  :P

good question.  
lets see: i went to my 1st trackday there 9 months after buying my 1st bike, that was '00. age 33.  :-[

did 9 trackdays in '01.
did 8 trackdays and 2 races in '02.
did 5 trackdays and 3 races last year.

uh, i think tim has me beat with his 1,500 laps!   :o

what's funny is after all that time there i still just learned the line up 7!  lol.


wait, i just did the math, i have over 1,500 too!  hey i guess i'm a slow learner....

[Peanut]

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

thanks quick!  hey, when are you guys getting r6 molds?

[Super Dave]

Greg....

You need a new avatar.

Much better.... ;D

[GregR6]

That's just VIR?  :o

 :-[

track day in 02
school in 02
track day in 03, 2 races in 03
race in 04

[GregR6]

Much better.... ;D

thx hehe It looks like crap, I stole one from online :-X...I like yours better.  I'll make a better one later when I'm home...  ;D

[Clay]

I think I have about 40 laps on VIR now.  I got into the 36's!  ;D  Maybe if I hadn't crashed in practice I could have gotten it into the 34's.  ::)  

TELL ME I'm not the only one that noticed that bump going into turn one.   >:(  LOL

[bmfgsxr]

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

i had one race weekend there last year where i ran two races and two practice sessions.

then this year i ran 4 races and two dry practice sessions and one wet in which i was just circulating the track at low speed. so i have about 70 laps, maybe a few less. i feel pretty confident that if i got to warm up on friday i would have been at least a second faster. i hadnt ridden since last august since i got sick at the end of last year so i had a few cob webs to dust off. but enough of the what ifs.. ill just have to put the laps down next time there.  i may end up doing the event at the end of june but we will see how the funds are doing. but i am definately planning on doing the event at the end of the season. it always gets harder to drop time the faster you go, but i know so many places i can make up time that i didnt have time to do. the weekend was just too short.

tim was doing trackdays there with cali superbike school for years, then he started racing and ended up being an instructor for cali superbike school last year and taught there a couple times on top of racing there. in fact, he may have over 2000 laps on that track.  im jealous as hell cause that track is f'n great. i wish it was a little closer cause being couped up for 12 hours driving makes me f'n nuts.

do you guys run at summit? im probably going to make the may 30th weekend. what kind of times are you guys running there?

[HeHateMe]

Smoke Seans AIM is redryder

Dave nice day with you sorry for the attitude

Smoke I need bernies address again to send his money

NUT...good going at VIR are you going to be at JC 24/25  or Road Atlanta Next month with NESBA

[Peanut]

Yea, I'll be at Summit both weekends.  Last year I got into the 18's a couple of times but ran mainly high 19's to 21's.  That won't cut it this year so I hoping for mainly 19's with a number of 18's when we go at the end of the month.

I would think to be up front in EX you need to run 18's with dips into the 17's.  At the national it'll be a bit faster.

BTW..I had to do as many trackdays as I could, I learned how to ride a bike in '00.  I need to take the crash course.

How come you guys aren't going to summit at the end of the month?

He, I won't be at JC and I'm not sure about RA yet.  Right now it looks like the Monday VIRN event next for me.

[bmfgsxr]

actually, a bunch of the guys are going to both weekends. i wont be making the first one because ill have my little girl that weekend.  being a single parent only leaves me with certain weekends to go racing, and the end of the month just doesnt fit in the schedule.  ive been riding bikes most of my life, but this will only be my third year racing. i did one trackday before i started racing and that was up at loudon. have you ever raced up there? its our home track so that is where we mostly race. i ran two weekends at summit last year for a total of 5 races. and i didnt do any friday practices. so i guess i have about the same number of laps around that track as i do at vir. actually a few less laps than vir. my best is a 21.1 and that was with the belts showing through the right side of my tire during my last race there. i was stuck in the high 21's that whole weekend and then i got to talking with some of my teammates and i went out and ran that 21.1 right after that. if my tires werent cooked i could have been a bit faster. the big thing that allowed me to make up time was going into t5. i used to come flying into t4 in 4th and brake like no tomorrow and drop down to 2nd for t5. id usually outbrake guys going into t5 and get good drive out, but then id have to shift right before t6 and i couldnt carry good speed through the carousel because i couldnt get the bike settled. and id lose a lot of ground on guys in that section of turns. so then we were all talking about our gears for each corner and when i said second they said i must be nuts. they all use third. so i ran third in that corner the entire next race. i didnt have as good of squirt coming out of 5, but you dont really need it as you have to get set up for 6 rather quickly. plus i would carry more speed in 5, i could get the bike dead stable before 6 and carry a lot more speed there (except for my wasted tire). anyhow, you probably know all this stuff anyway. i know i add a lot of if this and if that, but that is my positive thinking at work. i know i can run faster and i will.  besides i run takeoffs and run them til the cords are showing. if i had to buy new tires all the time id only get about half the racing events in that i do. and id rather have my lap times suffer a second or so and get more tracktime, than sit at home and listen to my friends talk about how good of a weekend it was.  8) so definately look for timmy and the boys that weekend, and ill most likely see you at the end of may. maybe i can catch a tow off you into the 19's.  ;D

[smoke]

bmfgsxr  

Thanks for the t5 tip.  At test & tune I felt better in that turn but I was still in 2nd.

Why don't you bring the lil one with you? I'm sure your  teammates could help out.

You need tires? I have one rear that was used for  3 races last year, and a front and rear that was used in 4 races last year.  ( the front and rear are still on my old bike from last year) U can have them if you want them. well after u look at them of course.  let me know what weekend to bring them to Summit

[Super Dave]

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Dave nice day with you sorry for the attitude

Smoke I need bernies address again to send his money

How about...

9760 Center St
Manassas, VA 20110

It's not knittin'...
 ;D