The First Race

I haven't done much of a write up of my first race weekend. I guess maybe I just didn't want to talk about it.

I did really well in my first two races of the day on Sunday. Both of them where classes my bike isn't competitive in, but they where fun, and I diced with many other riders.

For 500 Twins, my main class, I got a fairly poor start, and went through T1 in 6th of something. I picked off a couple of bikes in T2, a couple more including my racing partner Eric in T4 and that left me in Third place. We went through turns 5-8 and I was gaining on the 2nd place guy. Coming into turn 9 I closed the gap in a hurry. I'm really good on the brakes. I knew for sure I could get him into T11, and take 2nd place. However exiting T9 my bike started running on 1 cylinder (it's a twin) and I looked down and I could see that it had over heated. So before I got to T11 I pulled off the track totally dejected. There went my first AFM trophy.

So we loaded up the bikes, and went to Tommy's to drown our sorrows in tequila.