Race #4 Sat May 24 Sumter County Fairgrounds-Points Updated 5/26

[unforgiven]

easy there superstar,i didnt see any fast guys in your class , how can you tell ? or did the vets run w/ the open class. ....anyway hope everyone had a safe and fun time...........this sucks,i'm bored

[fastrnrik]

easy there superstar,i didnt see any fast guys in your class , how can you tell ? or did the vets run w/ the open class. ....anyway hope everyone had a safe and fun time...........this sucks,i'm bored

The Vet 30 and Vet 40 classes were combined. It had 7 riders. Dale had his hands full with some pretty fast old guys

[HillKiller]

    I have 3 pics from Derek's crash. I hope to get them posted Monday night. They are incredible! Unfortunately the photographer didn't get any of the Vet class crash.

[unforgiven]

dang the old guys are gettin crazy again?!

[Scott270r]

This is my new favorite track. A couple of changes to my quad and I will run with the money class anytime. 

This is my least favorite track by far, there is no room to start clean, no room to pass, too small and outright dangerous for the fast class guys. Not to mention it is a tire shredder. We fried 3 tires yesterday!! All while sliding all over the place, people ride on the bottom and sling sand all over the track to create a grip/slip condition, you come in and slide then it grabs and will highside you. Its probably the worst track we have ever been to and I hope we don't come back soon.... :ThumbsDown.gif

Thank God Thunderbowl will be back soon!   :T , its by far the best track we race on. It isn't scary fast but has everything, room for starts, room to pass and not terrible on tires. And best of all, we can race there at night so it won't be 95 degrees in the shade like it was in Sumter yesterday.

[yfz122]

This is what I got from the Vet wreck.

[derek330]

just want to let everyone know that i am ok from my little wreck on saterday. i haven't wrecked like that in at least 10 years. i guess i had it coming!
i will have to agree with scott... this is the worst track i have ever seen.  what got me the most is how DANGEROUS it was in the open class.  everyone was weelieing on each other and slamming each other in the first turn. i will say that i have never felt so unsafe racing in my life! and i have been flattracking for over 10 years.
what made the first turn sooo dangerous was the starts were so short that we were going in 4 wide into a sandy corner with only a groove for one person.
look at it this way.... SATERDAY, WE HAD THE MOST WRECKS OF ANY RACE WE HAVE EVER HAD. what does that say?
and also we need to go back to 4 wide. 6 is too many people for a track so small and starts soo short.  i love to race for fun but i don't want to get killed doing it and saterday was just too dangerous. I'm not sure how the other classes fell about this but the open class was wayyyy harsh. there was no time to spread out before turn one and it was just a freeforall. in other classes they are spread out more in turn one but not in ours. i just want it to be a safe race and i don't want to see anyone get hurt.
Brady said in the riders meeting that " there will be no bumping please!" and I'm not sure everyone heard that cause yesterday i saw some dangerous riding! so much that
i told dave i didn't want to run the money class anymore. i wasn't sure if the danger level would get higher because money was involved. turned out it was a clean race....
just wanted to vent a little and let y'all know about my concerns... so how does everyone else fell about this?


i had a good time and again, thanks everyone for putting on the show and supporting the league. you know what they say... i bad day of racing is better than a good day with you wife! b:r  joke ladies.....

[fastrnrik]

Another race is now in the books.

First: The facility and staff deserve props for all of their hard work in getting the facility race ready. The owners and staff were very accomodating, helpful, and easy to work with. The track itself was nice and appeared to have lots of grip. Yes, there were some areas that need improving, but alot of it can be contributed to "opening day blues" and I'm sure after they get a few races under their belt alot of the small glitches will go away.

Second: There were a few "mishaps", but the good news is that I don't think anyone was hurt. Mostly bruises and sore ego's. There was some bumping going on, but on a track this size, it's almost impossible to avoid. The good news is that since the next race is at Thunderbowl, our flag man knows better what to look for and can cure a lot of those "rough riding" issues that have been coming up lately.

All in all, I thought it was a good day with some good racing and some new faces coming out to race. The rain was never an issue, and it was beautiful all day.

Special thanks to Brett from the SSQSA for all the help. That computer program definately helped Dave and I avoid a lot of writing.

Thanks to everyone who came. See ya at the next one.

 

[bmd11]

Thank you for your effort! We really do appreciate all of the work you guys put into getting places for us to race!  :ThumbsUp.gif

[jennifer~at~thunderbowl]

What computer program ? I want it.....

[fastrnrik]

And you'll be getting it.....

[HillKiller]

Points as of 5/26 are now posted at

www.southerndirttrackassociation.com

[RTR_380/450R]

Do I see it right that a yound lady placed 2nd in the money class?
Good job Paige!!!

jt

[YamahaBabe27]

Thank you Jason!!!! I worked Hard!

[derek330]

wheres my superman pic at dave?

[unforgiven]

hey d,i'll have to show you how to dismount more dramatically glad your ok.i never trust those guys on them old suzukis

[jennifer~at~thunderbowl]

And you'll be getting it.....

Dang...That was easy... Let me think of some other things that I want...

[derek330]

hey d,i'll have to show you how to dismount more dramatically glad your ok.i never trust those guys on them old suzukis

what guys on zuks?   

[sykolincoln]

man with all this bumpin and crashing going on it sounds like a bunch of three wheelers out there!

[unforgiven]

what guys on zuks?   
wasn't that a dude on an old 250 suzuki you clipped when you took that soil sample,it looked like it in the pic.idk,also i just said that cause i new tim would read it

[cjcracing]

We just want to thank everyone that has worked so hard to provide us with places to race!!! Merritt and Jessica had an absolute blast.  The track looked pretty tough (that's why I didn't ride) but all in all it was a great race day!!! Many thanks to Brady for getting everything going again!  I posted pictures of the races and practices on our site -- There are 4 pages of quads, 3 pages of M/C and 1 page for the Pee Wees.  I am getting great practice with taking pictures.  I hope you all enjoy.
Thanks again!!!!!
Tonya, Jeff, Merritt and Jessica.
www.cjcracing.org

[HillKiller]

wheres my superman pic at dave?

Here you go brother!!!

[HillKiller]

what guys on zuks?   
wasn't that a dude on an old 250 suzuki you clipped when you took that soil sample,it looked like it in the pic.idk,also i just said that cause i new tim would read it

No the suzuki pic is of the vet class, not Derek.

[Bamaquad]

wheres my superman pic at dave?

Here you go brother!!!






I give you a 8 out of 10 just for looking like a tard.

[derek330]

thanks be-atch!   but ya know... tards still "own" raptors at the race track! :lecture.gif
that wreck doesnt look that bad! it didnt fell that bad either! but i dont plan on doing that again..LOL
at least i flipped over to a 3rd place finsih. :Tp