snootycat
Thu 1/26/06, 7:54PM
So everyone who showed up on Jan 22nd to CA Speedway was super pumped up to get out onto the track and go balls to the wall.
Each group got a session, then some dip crap in Group 1 (the newbie group I was in) decided somewhere before the track to not tighten his cap on his oil tank. SO he dumped his whole tank of oil onto the track from turn FOUR all the way back into the paddock. IDIOT~!!!!! The moron then made a B-line back to his paddock and attempted to sop up the oil with papertowels before anyone could rat the bastard out for kicking everyone off the track (and making his friend behind him crash her bike). Thankfully, the people at Fasttrack simply followed the line of oil right to the guy and his number was pulled and he got to pay $256 to go one session around the track. But unfortunately, it took 1 and a half hours to clean up the track before anyone could go back out again. All in all, every group lost 2 sessions (40 minutes) of track time. That sucks. Don't be that guy. Tighten your oil cap.
Other than that...the weather was chilly, so everyone spent a lot of time going slow the first 2 or 3 laps in order to warm their tires. Note to future-employed self...buy tire warmers ASAP. It was also pretty windy. I watched a dude in front of me take the 3 to 4 corner and his bike LITERALLY LEFT THE GROUND and came back down from a big gust of wind. He didn't finish his lap and left the track before turn 14.
I thought I improved from the last time I went to the track, but I still need to work on getting OFF THE BIKE. I had a dude there video tape me so I could see how I was doing. If you have the opp to get taped...do so, it's worth it. See, I THOUGHT I was getting off the bike, but it turned out I was just moving my head from side to side. HAHAHAHAH! What a chicken! I think my fastest lap was something like 2 minutes and 20 seconds. Something pathetic like that. Matt's was around the 2 minute mark.
Also on the Things To Buy When I'm Rich list are steel brake lines. Holy crappoid. You think the Ninja's dope and all with the braking power...until 5 track sessions into the day when you're touching your lever onto the bar and just about nothing's happening.
I'm rambling. I wonder if anyone has read this far?
Anyway, my ab favorite turn is 4 going into 5 If I had to be a corner for the rest of my life, that's the corner I'd be. It's like a catapult. WOO HOO!
Turn 9 (the right hander decreasing radius just before the back straight) is my worst corner. If Satan was a corner, Satan would be corner 9 at CA Speedway (or the decreasing radius counterbanked turn at Buttonwillow).
Let's all take our tightened oil caps and go to the track. WOO WOO!
Each group got a session, then some dip crap in Group 1 (the newbie group I was in) decided somewhere before the track to not tighten his cap on his oil tank. SO he dumped his whole tank of oil onto the track from turn FOUR all the way back into the paddock. IDIOT~!!!!! The moron then made a B-line back to his paddock and attempted to sop up the oil with papertowels before anyone could rat the bastard out for kicking everyone off the track (and making his friend behind him crash her bike). Thankfully, the people at Fasttrack simply followed the line of oil right to the guy and his number was pulled and he got to pay $256 to go one session around the track. But unfortunately, it took 1 and a half hours to clean up the track before anyone could go back out again. All in all, every group lost 2 sessions (40 minutes) of track time. That sucks. Don't be that guy. Tighten your oil cap.
Other than that...the weather was chilly, so everyone spent a lot of time going slow the first 2 or 3 laps in order to warm their tires. Note to future-employed self...buy tire warmers ASAP. It was also pretty windy. I watched a dude in front of me take the 3 to 4 corner and his bike LITERALLY LEFT THE GROUND and came back down from a big gust of wind. He didn't finish his lap and left the track before turn 14.
I thought I improved from the last time I went to the track, but I still need to work on getting OFF THE BIKE. I had a dude there video tape me so I could see how I was doing. If you have the opp to get taped...do so, it's worth it. See, I THOUGHT I was getting off the bike, but it turned out I was just moving my head from side to side. HAHAHAHAH! What a chicken! I think my fastest lap was something like 2 minutes and 20 seconds. Something pathetic like that. Matt's was around the 2 minute mark.
Also on the Things To Buy When I'm Rich list are steel brake lines. Holy crappoid. You think the Ninja's dope and all with the braking power...until 5 track sessions into the day when you're touching your lever onto the bar and just about nothing's happening.
I'm rambling. I wonder if anyone has read this far?
Anyway, my ab favorite turn is 4 going into 5 If I had to be a corner for the rest of my life, that's the corner I'd be. It's like a catapult. WOO HOO!
Turn 9 (the right hander decreasing radius just before the back straight) is my worst corner. If Satan was a corner, Satan would be corner 9 at CA Speedway (or the decreasing radius counterbanked turn at Buttonwillow).
Let's all take our tightened oil caps and go to the track. WOO WOO!