Our first event for the club for 2016 was the BMW sponsored track day. \u00a0We couldn’t have asked for a better day, for the first time in about 5 years the weather cooperated with us. \u00a0The day was perfect!<\/p>\n
The only downside I can come up with was the number of people who fell down during the day. \u00a0We had 10 crashes, which is 10 too many in my book. \u00a0Two of them where the same person on two different bikes. \u00a0I’m thinking that he was just pushing a bit too much for his first day back out on the track. \u00a0I’m really pleased that none of the crashes where students that I worked with. \u00a0Goes to show that my program does work.<\/p>\n
I spent my morning on a drift bike… not really but every time I went to the throttle the back of the bike stepped out. \u00a0I did manage to get a lot of use out of that tire. \u00a0Two Race days last year, two track days at Sandia, a track day at Arroyo last year, a few laps and a race day at Arroyo this year and that morning. \u00a0The tire looked great, just looking at it you would think it had lots of life left, it just wasn’t hooking up. \u00a0 After I figured out what it was I started to play with it and making it step out on purpose in a few of the turns. \u00a0I just wasn’t about to take the bike into the expert group and try to put down some really hot laps with it.<\/p>\n
Once I put a different rear tire on at lunch I did get out for some hot laps, it felt great to get some fast laps in. \u00a0I’m going to need to a lot more of those if I am going to do any racing at all this season. \u00a0I’m still in teaching mode and rolling off way too soon for a few of the turns. \u00a0In all it was a really great day. \u00a0I hope the next track day is just as nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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