| Author | Message | ||
     99buellx1 |
IFMRacing will be fielding two bikes in the CCS races this weekend at Road America. Gearhead (Ralph) will be on his XB12R racing on Sunday And I will be on my 1125R racing Saturday and Sunday. Come visit, watch some racing, have some fun. www.ifmracing.com https://www.facebook.com/events/426139777403382/ | ||
| Daves |
Good luck guys! | ||
| Smoke |
best luck Ralph and Craig! have fun. tim | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
good luck!! | ||
| Paint_shaker |
Good luck Ralph and Craig! | ||
| Kenm123t |
Great more Badweb Racers ! Good Luck be safe | ||
| Bearracing |
Good luck & be safe Ralph and you too Craig!! GO FAST!! | ||
| 99buellx1 |
Recap for saturday. Rain in the morning meant no practice, but luckily all the races were dry. First race was GTO, witch is an unlimited class, so I wasn't expecting much as I would be way down on power on a high speed track. Flag drops and I'm 1st through turns 1-3, then on the exit of 3 I run through a damp spot and instantly am full on sideways handle bars at full lock. I keep on the gas and save it, no idea how, but I finish up out in the grass. I wait for everyone to clear, then reenter the track and try to find some comfort in the tires, very hard to do, but after about another lap I'm catching someone and it's game on. I pick off a couple more people and end up working my way up to a 2nd place finish. Supertwins is a dogfight against a KTM, as he has more speed than I do, but I hold off a run the line to get the win by about 6 inches!! What a fun race, had to wait for results to be posted to know who won! Next race was Heavyweight Superbike, lead the race from the flag to the checkers, win #2 for the day! Last race, Heavyweight Supersport, had a guy that was pitted right next to me all over my tail the entire race, but I was able to make my holeshot count and brought home win #3! Amazing day! Thanks everyone for the help. IFM Racing D&F Trucking AMSOIL - John Kahrs Continental Tires AB Transport Networking Solutions | ||
| Dano_12s |
Wow! What a great day indeed! Congrats! | ||
| Kenm123t |
Fantastic Guys | ||
| Reepicheep |
Nice job Craig! | ||
| Court |
Craig . . . GREAT JOB in doing your part to make this the best Buell racing weekend in history! Between your first and second races . . . I think you are on track to be giving Danny lessons on how to "ride exciting" . . who'd have thunk it ? ? Thanks for a great report and for capably carrying the Buell flag. Court | ||
| Imonabuss |
Very cool! | ||
| Smoke4ndmears |
Sounds like one hell of a weekend! Great job! | ||
| Smoke |
GREAT WORK CRAIG!! Mooney took 4 wins at Talladega with AHRMA this weekend and yours truly followed him with 4 2nd place finishes! tim | ||
| 99buellx1 |
Great job Tim! And Pat. I hope to have some fun at the AHRMA races at Road America next month. Oh, and I got some great on-bike video this weekend. Gotta sit down and do some editing and uploading. Thanks everyone. Unfortunately, Sunday was wet........very, very wet. Ralph didn't go out on track. No need to throw it away in the wet. I didn't get on track because my water pump gave out. | ||
| Daves |
Great job Craig! | ||
| Paint_shaker |
Congrats Buell Racers!!! | ||
| 99buellx1 |
Thanks again everyone. Here's the turn 3 scare: | ||
| Crusty |
Yeah; I'd be changing my shorts after that one! | ||
| Xb9er |
nasty, I just got chills watching that. Nice save | ||
| Walt221 |
You've go to ride that thing out man! Haha. | ||
| 99buellx1 |
Ride it out....haha...well, I did sort of, just not how you probably could have Walt. | ||
| Walt221 |
Just giving you a hard time man. Nice save and it was good to see you again. | ||
| 99buellx1 |
You too Walt, too bad Sunday was such a crap day. Good job on the win! Couple more vids: Entire GTO race Ricardo Valdez buzzing the pit wall. | ||
| 99buellx1 |
Here's video of the SuperTwins race. This was extremely close at the line, we had to wait for the results to be posted to know who came out on top. | ||
| 99buellx1 |
Heavyweight SuperBike race. | ||
| 99buellx1 |
HW SuperSport. Tried a different 2nd cam angle, didn't quite get it right, but still turned out decent. | ||
| Blake |
Great stuff Craig! You've really upped your game! | ||
| Tony216 |
Great job!!! Awesome videos!!! | ||
| Trojan |
Great video, but it seemed a little 'empty' on track with very few bikes and no spectators compared to UK club racing? How many entries do they have in each class at CCS and why were your races started in 2 groups? Not a criticism by the way, just interested how it compares to UK racing. Over here organisers are very reluctant to run races with less than 20-30 riders because they lose money, so will either run two classes together or cancel a class altogether rather than run a race with just a few riders in. When we started UK Thunderbike we invariably ran with the 400 class or SV650 'Minitwins' until the numbers reached the point where we could run separate grids just for Thunderbikes. | ||
| Glitch |
and no spectators compared to UK club racing There isn't a big interest in motorcycle racing here in the States. Left over stigma from the "good ol days" and not helped at all by the squid population. Things are getting better with the moto population as gas prices keep going up, but instead of seeing more motorcycles, I'm seeing more scooters. I don't want to sound like I'm beating a dead horse, but until the advertising for bikes is changed from "bikers" and "biker gangs", to something more "family friendly" things will stay the same. In America I'm afraid everything seems to be about "image" rather than substance... | ||
| 99buellx1 |
Thanks Blake. After watching all the video multiple times, I'm figuring out where I'm losing time and what I'm doing wrong also. The power of information!
Yeah, the weather was pretty iffy and it didn't seem like there was as large of grids as usual for a Road America event. There were usually 5-7 in my class (Amateur) and about the same for the experts, so 10-15ish on track. And when the track is 4+ miles you can get pretty stretched out. The Middleweight class (600cc) is where all the bikes are, and to a lesser extent Unlimited (1000cc. I think the Middleweight race had 40+ bikes on track. They group classes together quite a bit in our series also, though the put the slower bikes behind, so usually don't see them that often. |
