My first race experience a couple weeks ago was not so successful, however, this past Sunday I mustered up the courage to race again and took home a 3rd Place Plaque! This race consisted of two motos which were reduced from five laps down to four because of the number of riders at the track and the time constraints of allowing every class to race.
I raced in the 250-C class again and I'm very happy I stepped up to challenge myself in this class. There were 9 riders again and I took home 3rd overall. I managed to stay on the bike and not crash at all. I've eased up on the wholeshot (this is when all the bikes line up at the gate and everyone races to the first corner after the gate drops) and aimed to keep a steady pace in lieu of burning out after two laps.
I almost thought I would not be able to participate in the last race of the season because I crashed really hard in practice after the last race and bent the bolts on the bar clamps that hold the handlebars onto the bike. After two hard crashes and three days trying to get the bike fixed, the guys over at DGY finally helped me get it repaired on Friday afternoon.
Adri got some great footage of me passing a guy in mid-air over a huge stadium jump. I passed another guy through the whoops because I finally learned how to double them instead of dinking over them one by one. The video footage is on our digital video camera. Thanks to Tom we finally have a firewire cable to hook it up to the computer but the only computer with the firewire port has 250MB of RAM and video editing is not such a great idea on that computer.
I will post a pic of the plaque soon and hopefully upgrade the RAM in our PC with the firewire connection to get some video action going on.
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