As many know the jeep race is usually an invitation race only but this year they have it as an open format!
Friday was first day of practice and I felt really good! Track was getting a bit dry and blown out but was still a great track as Slalom goes. It was about a 35 second track with some decent step ups which were pretty fun!
Qualies went pretty smoothly… I felt pretty confident that I could qualify and so I did… 12th. which isn’t to bad..
Saturday was pretty good.. we were all given the VIP treatment which was pretty nice.. free food and drinks and we all had to wear Jeep jerseys on for the race.
My first opponent was Cody!!… friking eh.. as most of you know Cody is a great American rider with both of us at the same level of riding capability. I knew Cody was on it looking at him in practice he had all his lines down and was all about business when it came down to racing.
First round he was on the slightly faster lane and he had me at the finish line by .2 of a second.!!! so we were close! The second round I knew I would have to push it a little harder…. I did!… made a silly mistake in the first corner and drifted to far and had to cut the second berm so I lost some momentum…. STUPID! I was behind and I was trying everything to catch up! I had my feet out and killing the corners and I just couldn’t real him in…. so he took the round again an advanced.. bugga! oh well… I still made $250 just to qualify!.. pretty cool.. Cody in the end went on to win the whole thing so I felt much better about that!
It was an awesome event and I’m tempted to go and follow them all!… we will see.
Sunday was awesome I got up early fr the Dominion race and got some practice runs in! about 5 I think before we had to go and race… my bike was feeling awesome and I was still ampted to race since I only made one round yesterday… so I killed it! I did feel a little chilled out at the start as I was just happy to see everybody out there… but ya I won by 7 seconds! so I was happy… then I realised that I made $250 qualifying for the jeep race and made $700 for the win at Diablo.. it was a pretty darn good weekend of racing! I was pretty stoked!… to top it all off I did some good riding with some friends afterwards and then set a NEW record on the Alpine trail with my FreeLap Timing System!.. some of the locals are going to be pissed I think.
So ya all together it was an awesome weekend just hanging out with everybody.. racing and playing around..
Next race is WhiteFace! the 5K DH race that I placed 2nd last year to Derick Nobman by half a second!!! on a 8 minute track!!!!!!!!!!!!!!… I have a bone to pick with that place now.. I’m ready now!.
Anyways I will see most of you there!
Cheers….
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