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September
18-19 WSMC -New plugs -10 gallons of expensive race fuel burned to perfect a custom fuel injection map -one tooth larger rear sprocket -modification to radiator While these changes were hardly massive, they were intended to give me a more raceable package and one that wouldn't overheat. To that end, the mission was accomplished. Saturday practice saw me using cold weld to patch a pin hole leak in the radiator, left over from the modification. Once that was done, I went out and tried the new gearing. It was better everywhere, and didn't require me to change any corner entry gear selection. I was a little worried about that. I was still getting extreme tire wear at the rear, and still having a hard time finishing any long corner, but things were a little better all the way around. Plus, the bike was noticably faster and running under 200 degrees again, so all in all not bad. At the end of Saturday practice, I went to Ca Race Services and found they were out of my favorite front tire--Bummer! I guess that'll teach me to order them the month prior. That bummed me out a little, but I got the rear I wanted and had the boys spoon 'em on. |
I didn't take any pictures for this
weekend, so here are some pictures of all my girls at the beach. |
| Sunday,
race one was Bott Heavy. I got a decent start and slotted in behind
Kenny. I pushed for a few corners, but he was able to pull a gap on me
in two and six, and I just couldn't stay with him. I ended up just
circulating in second, a little ticked off at my handling woes. About a
lap from the end I realized I had been progressively slowing as there
was not enough talent to chase Kopecky and thought I should look back
and make sure I was still all alone. Good thing I did, there was
Michael Cirolli on his Yellow Duc trying to sneak by while I was
daydreaming. I had to put the man pants back on and step up the lap
times to keep him behind me, but was fortunate to cross the finish line
just ahead of him. Good race Michael. Race two was the feature for me, Formula Twins. I havn't beaten Kenny or Claudio yet this year, and was anxious to see if I could do any better. I'll save you the long winded report--nope. I'm starting to get a little frustrated at the push in all the fast long corners. The better mapping and more power and better gearing all helped a bit, but without the ability to really rip in turns 2 and 6 and 8 and 9, I'm doomed to follow those guys around. I was able to stay ahead of Headly junior, and kept Kenny behind me for a while, but he came by me on the last lap and while it was close, I ended up fourth. He was gracious enough to later say it was obvious my bike was pushing severely, and that it made it alot easier to get by me. Nice to get corroboration. I'll be doing some brain storming on the handling woes before September, so stay tuned. Thanks to Britt, and to Kent at Airtech for helping me with my radiator. |
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