Over all I was really pleased with how the day went.\u00a0 Just because I set a new personal best lap time for the std configuration, I beat my previous best time by .45 seconds.\u00a0 Which is just huge, I\u2019d been stuck for 3 years with the same personal best and I know that the other two times I ran that time it was a fluke.\u00a0 This time, I had a number of laps in that range. \u00a0I wasn\u2019t as consistent as I would have liked, but it wasn\u2019t as bad as some of the weekends I\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n
I had a plan for the day, the same one that I\u2019ve been focused on for a couple of months now.\u00a0 Get to the Apex. Add Throttle. \u00a0\u00a0Now of course there are some other things that go with this like trailing the brakes to the apex, getting the bike aimed in the right direction, making the apex the slowest part of the corner (where my lean angle is the greatest) then picking the bike up as I add the throttle, \u00a0driving it to the exit point, using the whole track as much as possible and keeping my eye moving up the track.\u00a0 Each time I made a mistake, I pushed it aside, continued with the plan, trying to make sure that I didn\u2019t make the same mistake again in the next corner.<\/p>\n
I prefer small increments of change, rather then the huge leaps some take.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe in scaring myself.\u00a0 That last TD was a good example, I went at a fast pace working on trailing the brakes to the apexes, and not once did I worry about keeping the bike or my self in one piece.\u00a0 I might have 1 moment a day, where so many of the people I talk with talk about having a \u2018moment\u2019 at least once a lap, if not every corner.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gotten grief from some of the guys about how much faster I could be if I\u2019d just push myself more. I\u2019m just not sure I buy into that way of thinking.<\/p>\n
Now I did make some mistakes during my races, especially on the starts. \u00a0(Yeah, what a shocker)\u00a0 I stood the bike up on the start of the first race and stalled it.\u00a0 Now, I was shocked at how quick I got the thing started and took off. \u00a0Too bad most of the Thunder bike grid got in front of me.\u00a0 I did make it up to 4th<\/sup> by the end of the race though.\u00a0 \u00a0Then in the next race I spun up the rear tire trying to make the pass on Perry, because once again I got a horrible start, only this time I coasted through turn one in neutral. \u00a0Not sure how I finished in that one, at the back I\u2019m sure. \u00a0My third start was slow but without any major foul ups. \u00a0At least I got the hole shot in Formula Femme. \u00a0One of the highlight of my day was lapping Mr Riffe.\u00a0 Just kiddin, kinda.\u00a0 Winning that one put me into first place for the EOY championship, not by much though so I still need to win the last race of the year to clinch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over all I was really pleased with how the day went.\u00a0 Just because I set a new personal best lap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","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\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diomederacing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}