July astabula race #2

[countrybumpkin]

Thanks George, I hope it is worthy of Whipper's wall! We missed you!

[George]

I'm sure it's wall worthy.

I expect to make the rescheduled NY, race. I'm not sure about Latrobe.

[Model Citizen]

[Model Citizen]

[countrybumpkin]

Ok, I put it in the gallery under AATV racing.

[Don]

So happy & thrilled that you guys had such a good race weekend. Nothing like it. Little G is working so hard & Bud keeps inviting you back. You must be doing something right. You're learning every time you race about the importance of attention to detail & safety & that's how you keep that dream alive.

Bridget

We need a couple things to make these weekends truly outstanding (but they need to be imported from Arizona).

[amphibious drew]

I added photos to the gallery. No stock class pics from me as I was behind the sticks. I hope someone else managed to snag a few pics, but I got a bunch of springer and mod class. A few of my favorites are Dave Smith flying low in his bumpkin and Bud working on Don's racer with some very knowledgable folks all standing by to assist.

[Mike]

Loving the photos. Thanks for taking the time to post those.

[hydromike]

Here's some pretty raw footage from the two-stroke stock feature race and a short trip back into the pits to try to give you an idea of how many people were there. The track was actually in pretty decent shape with regard to smoothness, but my GoPro arm sticks out a bit too far to miss getting the entire roll bar in the frame, so it shakes a bit. You can go frame-by-frame and see at least one 42mph on the radar screen in one shot, but honest... she'll hit 45 on the wet track.

You can see minor carnage on the left side if the screen at 3:21 where two good friends collaborate to help me out a bit....

So, EDIT:: In the youtube-converted file you can't see the radar gun numbers. It's all a lie; it only does around 32.

EDIT!!

[LittleG]

That was some pretty fancy stick work there mike great job an congrats on the first place.

[hydromike]

That was some pretty fancy stick work there mike great job an congrats on the first place.

Thanks G. I've always kept a ton of play in my sticks since I built the machine back in '09 to try and help compensate for how much I bounced around in the cockpit with those nasty old Nankangs. With the new Carlisles, I can probably take about 6" of travel out of them. The table tops were actually fun this year!

[George]

Here's some pretty raw footage from the two-stroke stock feature race and a short trip back into the pits to try to give you an idea of how many people were there. The track was actually in pretty decent shape with regard to smoothness, but my GoPro arm sticks out a bit too far to miss getting the entire roll bar in the frame, so it shakes a bit. You can go frame-by-frame and see at least one 42mph on the radar screen in one shot, but honest... she'll hit 45 on the wet track.

You can see minor carnage on the left side if the screen at 3:21 where two good friends collaborate to help me out a bit....

So, EDIT:: In the youtube-converted file you can't see the radar gun numbers. It's all a lie; it only does around 32.

"Wooo!"

[Joe H]

Great job Mike! Do you give driving lessons?

[hydromike]

Great job Mike! Do you give driving lessons?

Ha! Right.....There will be some detractors wondering why there's so much darn stick work and why the corners were so slow at times. You and the rest of the folks that were out during practice laps know how slippery that track was. I think Nick nailed it when he said "it's like ice....". You'd take a good line that you know has worked forever and you'd just float out to the grass... I do have some (very slow) practice lap video that I'll load up to try to convey why it was hard to stay on the track in the corners.

I know there has to be a lot more interest in racing that just the number of folks this event brought out. I'd encourage anybody who's even remotely interested to get out to the late Spring and Fall events on the track when Bud opens it up for us to just have fun and practice. Pine Lake is my "home track" at this point, and I still get 9/10 corners wrong as many times as I've been around it over the past 7 years.

[brian19600]

Mike was that a drone flying over you at 5:23?