On the starting grid
qualifying pic
A cold race day the track just dried up everyone had a slower pace this race then normal.
Suspension is stil a bit farged up but I am closer to getting it where it needs to be.
I finished it on Friday evening adn got about half a practice on her.
Then I started to adjust the suspension I had one practice to try to get that right
Then I qualified on a bike that was hardly ridable.
I adjsuted a few more things and on Sunday morning I tested her out for 5 laps. Seemed to be better handling but it was raining in morning practice so hard to say. Still I lead for the first three laps of practice. There were 3 or 4 bike tucked in behind me following my line trying to stay on the dry line. It was a lot of fun. I bet the pics form that practice sesison first three laps look better than most of the race ones as we are all tucked in very close to each other.
When we came in the pits my buddy asked me why I did not do that during qualifying. I was faster on race day morning in the rain on cold tires than on qualifying on a warm track the day before. So I know the adjustments I made helped some what.
It dried up but was cold so I pushed her as far as I felt safe since I was starting 26th on the grid out of 29 bikes. I had no chance to win and decided to let common scense be the better part of valor adn throttle back a bit and use the race as a testing session, which I did. I got a lot fo useful info and I think I got a handle on the carb issue as well as the suspension adjustements I need to do.
Over all she handled well enough to go from 26th to 15th in a 12 lap spring on a 1.2 mile circuit. Not great but not bad and I did not wad her up like a few others did.
