Firebird video??

[brian213]

Brian, are you asking about PHX or NM?

Firebird...  :)  Thanks.  I was beginning to wonder about Roger's answer.  ???

-Brian

[RAY_HYMER]

Wow!! Season's over!  Our last race at Firebird was great.  CCS used a different configuration of the East track, and it was a lot smoother and faster than with the old bus stop.  
I'm not sure yet, but I may have finished 3rd overall in the Southwest Region!!   I also won 4 class championships, too!!;D
Steven had a horrific crash in GT lights, got knocked out, broke a few ribs, and exploded his leathers.  :o
He had gained so much weight he couldn't fit into his backup leathers.  He was laying on his back, and everyone in the pits was pushing his fat into the leathers and trying to zip them up, but he was too HUGE!!!  He had to run home and fetch my backup leathers  :o
(I don't crash, so I don't bring them to the track!  ;) )  
He missed a few races, but was able to get back in time to score 626 points for the day and finished in the top ten!!  Hopefully his broken ribs will mend in time for the first race of 2005!!  

[MZGirl]

Wow, Ray, sorry to hear about Steve's crash.  But your description of getting him into the leathers was hilarious!   ;)

Congrats on your great finishes!!!

We were racing out at Arroyo on Sun (which had the conflicting date) and the weather SUCKED!  Temp fluctuated between upper 30's and low 40's and it rained the whole time!  I was miserable, but still raced.

The big story was Zac.  His big race was 600 Amateur, which he was racing on the CR500 motard (rain front, DOT rear).  It was mathematically possible for him to win the championship if he placed on the podium, the current points leader finished in the middle, and the other 2 racers in points behind him finished behind him.  A long shot for sure.  But the rain tossed it all up.  The points leader stayed in the middle of the pack for the entire race, and Zac diced up front for the lead.  It was only a 5 lap sprint and he was lapping experts in the field.  In the final turn he went in with 3 other riders, and it was 4 wide going through the turn.  It was Zac, one of the guys behind him in points, another amateur trying to win the race, and the 2nd place expert.  Zac, being on the motard, knew that he had to get on the gas hard out of that last corner to beat the higher-horsepower 600s to the finish.  He came out of the corner in the lead, got on the gas hard, and proceeded to HIGHSIDE.  He was less than 200 yds from the finish line and the championship.  He was hoping that he'd have enough momentum to slide across the finish line, but it was too far.

Zac's bike landed on the track as he rolled into the dirt, and the race was red flagged.  They reverted back to the previous lap's finishing order, so he finished 2nd.  The points leader took the championship.  Since Zac was on the motard, the bike suffered minimal damage (unlike the R6 that he launched in the rain in the first Firebird East race this year).  He landed on his wrist and broke it.  Wrist is in a hard cast until Xmas.   :-/

I'm sorry we didn't get to see the CCS crowd at the final race of the year.  I've missed seeing everyone out there.  At least next year we shouldn't have conflicting race dates between ASMA and CCS SW, thanks to Roger and Kevin.

See you guys in 2005!   :D

[INSANESTEVE777]

Yes, I crashed.....GOOD & HARD!!! WOW I'm hurt!! Thats what a kid with no brain does the first race out when he knows theres 15 more to go!! I'm stupid...hehe. Oh well theres a good chance I'll get better so I can brake my a$$ again. my sv is even more hamered than ever and I'm hoping it fixes its self...cause I hurt and I'm broke too! I had alot of people that wanted to know were the ex's where. They are a couple of parts away and should be on the track soon! one or two parts each and there ready for battle! We also have a new toy for the battle of the shiz boxs....a bandito of death 400 cc's of raw woop a$$!! Ill be trying to get the biggest piece of poo ever seen on the track ever ....a xs 650 with stock bars and it too will rule !!! hehe Not sure of the date it will see duty but Ill try to make it snappy. did I mention that this message hurt alot to type? OK.....OOUUUUCCCHHH!!! See you in turn one. :-*

[RAY_HYMER]

Steven, it will take a lot to beat the MB5 that Jason Parker rode.  Now that was a shite pile!!  :o
 Let's not forget about the Ninja 250 with a slipping clutch that you rode in the old Ultra Lightweight Sportsman class!!  Or your creepy 1988  RM250 that you rode like a man and won GP Singles!   ;D
Do I need to bring up the TLR at AMP??   :-X
Tell you what...you get the Yamaha XS650 project onto the track, and I'll bring the H2 of death, and we'll have some 70's wars!!  ::)    

[brian213]

Hey Ray and Steve...  I've got a 70's bike for you to race...a GT750 (Water Buffalo)...I think it can ride in some of the lighter classes because it's so old and a two-stroke.  :)

BTW, that was me that was stuck behind, in-between and ahead of you at various points at Buttonwillow during your LWSB or whatever runs ahead of 125GP.  :)

I made a mistake I'll not make again...I decided to try a clear sheild on my helmet while wearing some sunglasses.  I didn't notice until about the bus stop on the warmup lap that SOMETHING was wrong...  I was seeing things that certainly were not there.  The curbs were moving around and in certain corners I saw the newer sections of paving sticking up off the track a few inches and kind of glowing reddish.

I came in after the race and told my pit mates about it (with the questions about Sat. night's drinking coming right away) and we figured out that both my sheild and the sunglass lenses were polarized...so, never again.  It was scary.  :)

So, that's why once I got past all of you guys, that was kinda why I slowed down...I had nobody in front of me testing the pavement..and I figured best to finish the race for sure rather than hit something that actually was there trying to get up to the next batch of bikes..  :)

-Brian

[INSANESTEVE777]

That was the bandit that i was riding,400 ccs of woop a$$!! When you got in front of us I did ask"how did this guy pass us" to my self and proceeded to spank you to the finish...hehe I will post the dyno results when I get the bandito dyno'd but Im guessing less than thirty....it sucks!! at buttocks willow i couldn't go right with authority or id drag the header and the back would go in the air....thought i was going down every time it did that but it never did...those street tyres worked so good...hehe God shiz boxs are fun!!My funnest battle was with a yellow plate ex with nos or a turbo...well it was supper fast. we went back and forth intill he saw a nice turn he wanted to make a straight away and i never saw him again!! but  you cant go wrong with silly bikes. Brian tryed to cheat using a cool two stroke and i had to put on the dark side of my riding to get a head of him...he made it so i couldnt get my dad by the end of the race!!!those lil 125's love me and my dad,the big bottoms are very good for drafting! It was all fun and I got the bandito up off the ground alittle more so man moves wont be so intresting any more!! I want to see what the muzz gots!!! hehe see you some tyme :P

[MZGirl]

Tell you what...you get the Yamaha XS650 project onto the track, and I'll bring the H2 of death, and we'll have some 70's wars!!  ::)    

I've got a bike for some '70s wars!  My '72 Honda CL450.  I've raced it in ASMA vintage before.  Though I think it only makes about 30 hp or so.

[brian213]

I've got a bike for some '70s wars!  My '72 Honda CL450.  I've raced it in ASMA vintage before.  Though I think it only makes about 30 hp or so.

That is a COOL looking bike!  :)

-Brian

[brian213]

Brian tryed to cheat using a cool two stroke and i had to put on the dark side of my riding to get a head of him...he made it so i couldnt get my dad by the end of the race!!!those lil 125's love me and my dad,the big bottoms are very good for drafting! It was all fun and I got the bandito up off the ground alittle more so man moves wont be so intresting any more!! I want to see what the muzz gots!!! hehe see you some tyme :P

Sure was fun!  Even though I had the weird visions...I saw you guys battling well.  I think it was you that I was seeing trying to figure a way around your dad or something into T1 for a couple of laps.  I was trying to draft you guys down the straight and then before T1 you would start going to the inside and then I didn't know what you both were going to do so I would stay back...it was surely cool watching you guys have a blast.  :)

-Brian

[MZGirl]

Even though I had the weird visions...

Stop doing shots of pre-mix!   :P ;)  

[INSANESTEVE777]

I've been hearing all this 70's pile class. We don't want that!! my dad likes those h2 kawis and has 1 or 2  and those bastards! They  make atleast 70hp stock!!! thats cheating!!! well I guess if youall want that class I need the limits and rules!! they made a six cylinder or two in 79 ,,cbx and the kz so set the rules and let the sillyness run wild!!