03/05 03/06 Firebird East

[Zac]

At least on the ultra-lightweight, I'm going slow enough down the straights to clearly see the difference between a white and checkered flag.  

Hey Fukiage!  I got a couple cool pics of you in the thunderbike race, check them out here: http://foghorn.homeunix.net:8081/~photos/gallery/CCS_FBE_3_6_05?page=4

If you want one let me know and I can send you the full size image.

-z.

[Mark_Weiss]

Aron (new kid, #119) was quite confused too. ULWSB was his first CCS race, and the first time riding in cool, damp, conditions. His faceshield completly fogged over during the first lap and he could only see out of the corners of his shield. When he saw a flag thrown, he could not tell exactly which type it was. He saw racers pulling off of the track and thought the race was over, but then a couple went by quickly, so he continued. When he saw a flag on the next lap, he was sure that was the end, and slowed down, but then saw others were continuing so he picked up again. The next lap he was able to tell that it was another white flag, but he had dropped too far back to catch up to the other amateurs.

He did learn a good lesson though, don't stop racing until you are SURE that you see the checkers.

I've been racing with AHRMA for the past several years and they refer to the white flag as a "courtesy" flag, we are told to NEVER count on the white flag being thrown. The only non-warning flags that count are green and checkers. That helps a lot with multi-class fields, such as when they run a production and formula class at the same time.

Mark

[RAY_HYMER]

That is basically what they said about the result, that the white flag is a "courtesy flag".  I saw the white flag the first time, and then when I expected to see a checkered flag when I crossed the finish line, there was the white flag again.  I thought "could I have mistaken the flag the lap before?". ??? ???

  I went one more lap, and saw the white flag for a 3rd time!!  :o

 The only people ahead of me were lappers, so I figured they made a mistake with the checkered flag, so I made the decision to pull in.  :-/

 I found out later that EVERYONE in LWSS pulled off the lap before, so that meant that I won the race, even though I was in last place in the Expert class!!  Fortunately for me, I got to learn a lesson, and benefited from others mistakes! ;D

[L8brake731]

Hey Ray:

I have something for you to bring to Billy at Willow Springs ;D

[Shady]

Zac, did you get any other pics out there?  I'm trying to find someone that took pictures at the event that might have me out there on the supermoto bike...nobody believes that I qualified 6th in the EX Unlimited GP on the thumper...hehe

[hi-side_racing]

I believe it... with it as wet as it was, when I saw you going out on the motard, I said, now that would be fun... everyone else was skating on ice.

[Al_Soran]

......was confused by all the flags too, just ran until they threw the checkers  ???, but was wondering where everyone else went.... ;D

See ya' all in Vegas!

[cstem]

First I would like to apologize for the events that led to much chaos this weekend at Firebird.  It was pretty much out of my control (thankfully), but still I take a lot of personal ownership in CCS SW when we do well and take it very hard when we do poorly.

Next, I would like to thank all the racers this weekend for A- showing up and racing, B- for not complaining too much (and the amount we saw was definitley warranted) C- realizing that it will get better.

This weekends racing was some of the best I have seen in a long time!!  As we announced all weekend, things in the SW are giong to get better (hopefully you saw some of this already) and we may stumble along the way.  I only hope we train operators in the use of a new system before we turn them loose with it.  NEXT time- we will have this one solved and most likely will find a new wrinkle to ruffle our feathers- but such is life in racing right?  ::)  Thanks again to all the racers for the great weekend, I am glad Nick is okay and expect to see a report in RRW when I get results.  See you in Vegas!!  Also- digital- contact about help with the website- OUT- Cory

[eric636]

Hello Everybody This Is Nick Adams #81 Eric Let me on here So I can Tell everyone That I am Ok very bruised and my sholder was the sizes of my head one day but it's gone down  :o  Also thanks to all Who helped out with loading my things after the race's endding that day and getting everything home for me .....  I will have the name RacerNick#81 On fan form as soon as they send me my pass word .........  if anybody really needs to get ahold of me send your  mail to Rockdemonn6@yahoo.com ***(OH YA)***
IF anybody knows if anybody got anything on tape of my Crash I would love to talk to you about getting it !!!!! The tape that its.....  

[RAY_HYMER]

You said you wanted it!!  I'm telling Heather!! ;D   :o

[digitalRoost]

First I would like to apologize for the events that led to much chaos this weekend at Firebird.  It was pretty much out of my control (thankfully), but still I take a lot of personal ownership in CCS SW when we do well and take it very hard when we do poorly.

Next, I would like to thank all the racers this weekend for A- showing up and racing, B- for not complaining too much (and the amount we saw was definitley warranted) C- realizing that it will get better.

This weekends racing was some of the best I have seen in a long time!!  As we announced all weekend, things in the SW are giong to get better (hopefully you saw some of this already) and we may stumble along the way.  I only hope we train operators in the use of a new system before we turn them loose with it.  NEXT time- we will have this one solved and most likely will find a new wrinkle to ruffle our feathers- but such is life in racing right?  ::)  Thanks again to all the racers for the great weekend, I am glad Nick is okay and expect to see a report in RRW when I get results.  See you in Vegas!!  Also- digital- contact about help with the website- OUT- Cory

email sent. :-)

[rotoboge]

Hello Everybody This Is Nick Adams #81 

Nick, this is #525, your nemis in the MW classes. I am so glad to hear you are OK. You were really laid out there for a long time! I did not see the crash, but by the looks of it, it was a doozy... :o

Hopefully you will be recovered in time for Las Vegas. If I can be of any service in anyway, let me know. ;)