Deming Race Report: March 13-14, 2010<\/p>\n
The weekend didn\u2019t really get off to the start that I would have like to have.\u00a0 It ended up being a horrible week at work and I worked18 hours on Wednesday and Thursday.\u00a0 Then had to be there super early on Friday, which means multiple days with very little sleep before the weekend even go started.<\/p>\n
After leaving work, I still had to finish getting the bike ready, get everything loaded, and get down to Abq, to meet up with Aaron. So that we could leave for Deming by 6am.\u00a0 It of course took forever to get my stuff together and loaded, I didn\u2019t make it down to Abq, until after 8.\u00a0 Then there was the trailer issues, his didn\u2019t have running lights, of course that was the one we had planned on taking.\u00a0 So after trying to fix\/figure out the issue, we gave up and loaded everything into my trailer, and hooked it to his truck.\u00a0 By this time it was almost 11pm, this lack of sleep thing was really starting to get to me.<\/p>\n
Well, the next day bright and early at 5:15 am, we started to finish loading the truck and then hit the road.\u00a0 The trip down was uneventful, but kinda long since we were both tired.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t believe just how nice it was down there, the temps were just about perfect.\u00a0 I only did a half track day on Sat. since, I wanted to have plenty of time to un load and get the few little things done that I didn\u2019t get done the day before.\u00a0 I towed Aaron around for a few laps and then he was off.\u00a0 I\u2019m still having some issues with how to ride this bike.\u00a0 I just can\u2019t seem to roll on soon enough and I\u2019m braking way too early.<\/p>\n
Andreas was down there on his 675 and he followed me around for a number of laps and gave me some ideas of where I could improve.\u00a0 It basically came down to 3 corners that I was struggling with\u2026. Of course they were THE important corners!\u00a0 LOL.\u00a0 Which had me running lap times that were a little slower then last year, but by the end of the day it had evened out and was a little better.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what the times were, since we had put my lap timer on Aaron\u2019s bike.\u00a0 He was riding great, and killin\u2019 it so I figured that he needed it more then I did that day.\u00a0\u00a0 He did freak me out by dirt biking it off the track in the first corner, at one point, when I was right behind him.\u00a0 He kept it up, got back on the track and passed me again.<\/p>\n
It was great fun to watch the Super Pole for Formula Arroyo after we were done riding.\u00a0 Roger, cruised around and won it with a 1.08 lap time.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 ASMA tech provided us with steaks for dinner and as always the company down there is first rate.\u00a0 I always learn something new when I\u2019m down there. \u00a0But, again, it turned into a latter night then I would have liked.<\/p>\n
Getting up the next day was a killer, especially since; we lost an hour do to the time change.\u00a0 We made it out to the track at 8 am, and the track finally went green about 9:30.\u00a0 I would have rather been sleeping during that time.\u00a0 I got in two practice session, and it became obvious to me that I needed much more time then that on the track if I was to have any hope of getting it together.<\/p>\n
I only had two races, MW Supersport and Formula Amateur.\u00a0 I was actually happy to be gridded at the back of the back of the pack.\u00a0 It was the first time that I had launched this bike.\u00a0 Let\u2019s just say, it\u2019s going to take some practice to get those better.\u00a0 Re-gearing it should help, since it\u2019s still stock right now. I just can\u2019t decide what changes I want to make, yet.\u00a0 So my launch was \u2026ah.. shall we say weak.\u00a0 I was way behind entering the first turn.\u00a0 From there it just didn\u2019t improve.\u00a0\u00a0 After about 4 laps I had the Experts starting to lap me. That\u2019s were it got interesting.\u00a0 I had one almost take off my front tire, I really don\u2019t like that, it\u2019s upsetting and few passes that followed that where unnecessarily aggressive.\u00a0 Like the two split me and then come together in front of me mid corner, and then went down. \u00a0\u00a0So I slowed up even more after that, and just wanted to finish without being taken out.<\/p>\n
My second race was after lunch and it was the big Amateur race for the day.\u00a0 The grid had about 15 bikes.\u00a0 Lining up on the grid, was interesting, I don\u2019t think that the last three rows were lined up correct; I know that I wasn\u2019t in the right spot nor was Aaron.\u00a0 He had a great launch.\u00a0 I had a better one, it should get better and better the more that I do it.\u00a0 I came into the first turn with 4 other bikes, and it was here that I got unnerved by the bike to the inside of me; he stood it up and then leaned over again.\u00a0 I ended up getting stuck behind him for the next 6 laps.\u00a0 He slowed me down in the tight stuff and then just out powered me huge on the straights.\u00a0 If he had been more consistent in the corners I would have actually tried to get around the outside of him, but he was all over the place.\u00a0 It just wasn\u2019t worth the risk to me, to make the attempt.\u00a0 Esp. since I wasn\u2019t riding that well myself, but I know that I wasn\u2019t that bad.\u00a0 After almost running up the back of his bike in the bus stop, I just slowed up.\u00a0 It was about 3 laps after that, the fast Amateurs started to lap me.\u00a0 They were at least much more kind then the experts in the first race and thank you Aaron for not stuffing me in the kink, like I half expected you to, since I could hear you behind me coming into it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Best thing I can say about it for me, was that finished the race with the rubber side down.\u00a0 I did manage to smooth things out, but it didn\u2019t really drop my lap times.<\/p>\n
Aaron had one more race after this one, the HW twins, which I should have done too.\u00a0 He had a great start, and by the 4th<\/sup> lap was up front.\u00a0 He\u2019s first weekend down there and he managed to finish 2nd<\/sup>, 6th<\/sup> and 1st<\/sup> in his races.\u00a0 Nicely done, dude, I\u2019m really glad that he called and asked if I would car pool down there with him.\u00a0 It made the trip, less exhausting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deming Race Report: March 13-14, 2010 The weekend didn\u2019t really get off to the start that I would have like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}