Yesterday we were hanging around the pit, being all morose and bummed with the broken motor. Then Dan Warner arrived with a couple of racers in his truck. They rode here from So Cal on their bikes -- one of which is an S1000 BMW. They wanted to run the Bimmer -- but didn't have legal leathers, so Dan thought maybe we could hook them up with a suit. Well, now we're crewing for the couple.
He got the bike through inspection okay, but with a 200 MPH max. sticker on it for the first run. He's in production 1000 cc class, which record is about 194 1/2. Andy, the rider, made his one run last night -- turned a 194.0 or so. Decent for right off the street. The bike, by the way, is the dealership's demo unit -- has 4500 miles on it.
So -- this morning we took the bike back to Matt, the bike inspector, showed him the timing slip, got the 200MPH speed limit sticker removed, and now we're back in line. He'll run the long course this time and see what it'll do, hey?
In other news, we're right behind Skip and Gary in Skip's B/BGS 'liner, and Bob Ragsdale's Stude is up in front of us, too. The course is held -- a racer lost a muffler on the track (maybe) and they're searching for it.
Humidity 30%, wind zero, DA is 4,813 feet, temp. is 62. Darn, nice weather, hunh?
The Joint Venture made a run earlier -- switched off about the 1 1/2 -- don't know why yet. Ye Olde Dragon just ran - and it was the next run or two after that that the muffler went missing.
Hunh? A muffler on a racer vehicle? I wonder if the announcer got that bit of data correct. . .
Click to post - will be back.
