2014 CCS Round #4 – Summit Point – Twinsprints

Goal for the weekend, ride my own bike for every race. Mission accomplished. While it was a very up and down weekend with lap times and the bike. Overall everything went very well. Bike felt good, only needws to make a few clicks with the front forks. Power was down which I will look into but my friend Ben was able to pass down the straight at a good 10mph+ faster. This made it very difficult to get decent laptimes. Practice on saturday went decent turning 1:24 and 1:25 lap times on crap rear tire from 2010. The first race of the day did not go well either. Way off the pace, loosing focus. After this my spirit was pretty low but that would all change later. Next up was the Ultra-light SBK race which was very fun. Ben and I had a great race together but he edged me out in the end (damn his new fast bike). Ben rode fantastic, very happy for him and his new personal best laptimes. Something special had to happen in Thunderbike to save the weekend and it did. While the end result wasn’t the best, the race was great and the ride was good. I was able to catch up to Rob on his Ducati the last lap and pass him on the outside of turn 8. Even tho he motored me and finished it front of me, I knew there had to be a good lap time in there and there it was, a high 1:22. In no way shape or form did I expect to hit a 1:22 with this weekend running this dud of a motor. But it happened and it lifted my spirits for Sunday.

Sunday for the first 8 hours was a whole lot of nothing. Practice was about the same but there was a gigantic gap between practice and the first race, Thunderbike. Thunderbike went very well. I was stalking Jason Zelibor for most of the race in which allowed me to string together 5 laps in the 1:22’s. Fastest of a 1:22.4 which is a personal best by .5 a second. Finish in third a couple seconds behind Jason. But this race was boring compared to the race to come, Ultra-light Superbike. By far the best race I’ve ever had the privilege of entering. Wheel to Wheel for all 7 laps. 2nd through 6th place were attached. Swapping positions every lap, almost every corner. I went from 2nd, to 5th and everywhere else. You could throw a blanket over the bunch of us. I ended in 4th place at the line directly behind Mark Every who was on the rear wheel of 2nd place.