{"id":2366,"date":"2018-06-20T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2018-06-21T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T17:40:48","slug":"race-report-from-mras-round-2-pmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/20\/race-report-from-mras-round-2-pmp\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Report from MRA’s round #2 @ PMP"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been wanting to go back to Pueblo Motorsports Park for the past 4 years,\u00a0 I just wasn’t able to make it work into my schedule.\u00a0 This year, I decided to make it happen.\u00a0 It’s been 7 years since I raced at this track and I’ve only been on it once since it was repaved.\u00a0 I didn’t even really get to ride it.\u00a0 I was helping out Nick Inetasch with a SunSet Clinic there.<\/p>\n

I took an extra day off from work so I could do the track day.\u00a0 I knew I’d need the practice, with the new configuration of turn 1.\u00a0 Along with just not having any recent time on that track.<\/p>\n

So that I could get the most time in I decided to leave for Pueblo on Thursday after work.\u00a0 Figuring that I could drive just over halfway, before I’d need to find a spot to stop for the night.\u00a0 \u00a0As would happen after playing chicken with a small herd of elk just before the top of La Veta pass.\u00a0 I was wide awake, so making all the way to the track wasn’t that difficult.\u00a0 Dang, it was a super close call.\u00a0 There was one female, that fell while scrambling into the left lane just as I reached her.\u00a0 If she had fallen to the right I’d have hit her.\u00a0 Just another reason, why I am so thankful for charmed life that I seem to have.<\/p>\n

I made it to the track about 1am.\u00a0 Found a place that was sort of flat, it was just that the nose of the trailer was a bit over level.\u00a0 Thinking I could fix that by unhooking I just parked there.\u00a0 It wasn’t that easy, and even unhooked it was still more nose high then I would have liked.\u00a0 Since the level in the fridge was good, I just left it parked there.\u00a0 (Of course, that was after about 6 attempts, of getting it totally level. All of that was the last straw for me.\u00a0 I ordered an electric jack for it that night.)\u00a0 \u00a0By the time I finished messing around with that, it was time for the riders meeting.\u00a0 Which was interesting, they are really not sure about what to do with bikes, and kept saying things that made us all a bit scared.\u00a0 \u00a0Until Mike, jumped in and helped them run things more like they do at HPR.<\/p>\n

It was already so dang hot at that point, between that and the lack of sleep.\u00a0 I wasn’t sure that I’d do much riding after lunch.\u00a0 I didn’t.\u00a0 I did one session, I felt fine on the track, but back in the pit when I went to put the warmers on.\u00a0 I started to feel light headed, nausea, and then I broke out in a cold sweat.\u00a0 I took all that as a sign that I was done for the day.\u00a0 So I finished setting up my pit spot.<\/p>\n

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I also decided to head into town to pickup a new case for the new gopro camera, the one it comes with doesn’t offer much protection if it comes off the bike on the track.\u00a0 I also need deodorant for the wknd if it was going to be this hot!\u00a0 I’d also need more fluids to combat dehydration.\u00a0 \u00a0I wanted to get back before they started the Friday night drag races.\u00a0 I would need to have everything locked down for that.\u00a0 Things often walk away from the pits during the drag races.<\/p>\n

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The new case worked great with my older suction cup mount.\u00a0 I had 3 races on Saturday.\u00a0 I signed up for a sprint race and 2 endurance races.\u00a0 As it would have it, the endurance races became sprint races do to the time lost for someone dumping a huge amount of oil in the hot pit lane and track.\u00a0 There was also 3 red flags, maybe 4, but two of them caused a significant delay.\u00a0 So all races were shortened to make sure we were done before dark.\u00a0 \u00a0I was finally starting to get back up to speed, but I was still about 7 seconds off my best pace.\u00a0 It was coming just really slow.\u00a0 I never got into the upper 1.40s, like I should have, but maybe for the next race.\u00a0 This was also the first time I’d been on the race bike since August of 2017. I was really lacking seat time.\u00a0 Not to make excuses, but it does have an impact.<\/p>\n

Sunday was a much better day for everyone!\u00a0 No red flags, I got two practice sessions in on my new rubber,\u00a0 I slipped around in the endurance races,\u00a0 so I decided I’d put some new tires on the bike.\u00a0 The ones I was running had two days at HPR on them and the front also had a couple of track days on it.\u00a0 New rubber is just makes me feel more comfortable.\u00a0 I think it helped I was dropping more time.\u00a0 Another 4 seconds in practice.\u00a0 If I had held to my usual pattern, it meant that I’d be at least 4 seconds faster in the races that day, if not more.<\/p>\n

I did get faster I was hitting 1.50 and 1.51, when I didn’t have traffic to get through.\u00a0 Still not the times I should be running but a huge improvement over the 2 min times on Friday.\u00a0 I had 3 races, but I really only cared about one of them… LOR.\u00a0 Ladies of the Rockies.\u00a0 \u00a0The local screaming fast women wasn’t there this weekend.\u00a0 After checking out the times for the rest of the women, I was looking like the fastest for the wknd.\u00a0 Providing, I didn’t make any errors, two of them had times only a few seconds slower.<\/p>\n

In the first race I manage to keep those women behind me, but they were too close for my comfort.\u00a0 I figured that I was dragging them along, since I wasn’t quick enough to completely lose them.<\/p>\n

I was in the second row of the second wave start.\u00a0 \u00a0I needed a good start.\u00a0 Historically, I have great starts, or I suck.\u00a0 I was hoping this one would be great.\u00a0 \u00a0It wasn’t, but still manage to get in front by the first turn.\u00a0 It came down to who was going to the brakes last.\u00a0 –>\u00a0 ME.\u00a0 \u00a0 I managed to lead the whole race, I even caught a few of the racers from the first wave.\u00a0 \u00a0At one point one of the women who was on a liter bike passed me on the straight, but she went to the brakes earlier than I did again.\u00a0 So I focused on not making any more mistakes.\u00a0 It worked as it should have.\u00a0 I pulled a bit of a gap on them, and I managed to get my very first win with the MRA.\u00a0 The first time I’d placed higher than 3rd.\u00a0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

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To say I was happy is an understatement.\u00a0 I loved that Kerry, congratulated me on the cool down lap.\u00a0 It was a very fun race.\u00a0 She managed to drop 11 seconds this wknd.\u00a0 That is just fantastic!\u00a0 I’m looking forward to going back there again.<\/p>\n

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