Well this weekend went pretty good. Not the best results but i am happy with the race. Grand forks was Day one. Got to the Pits at 10 PM did some final prep on the sleds. The next morning was the parade lap the snow dust was horrible. My googles keep Icing over. Jesse Strge had a fix we put some pledge on the Googles and away we went. That did the Trick Mod class was first took off with a little to much adrenaline and blew the third corner and ended up burried in 3 feet of snow. After trying to dig out lucky a photographer gave me some assistance and we dug it out. Back on the track we ran hard and the Waldoch Sport Phazer ran great and the new Custom Axis shocks were like a dream. Surprising after losing 2-3 min being stuck i started to catch people and made a few passes. Knowing I was behind I ignored a double down and launched a downhill jump only to f;at land in a whole sled swapped out and we stayed on the gas. Whee that was close!!! Next lap we were runnign good and I heard a little birdie in my ear(you have to finsih to have a Chances0 decided better against bombing that hill. Slowwed down a little and finished the next lap. I ended up in 11th only 3 min behind the leader. What could have been was my thoughts if i didn't get stuck.
Stock class went rough made it two miles and somehow brake a ski. Hmm no ski then the spindle stick in the ground at 45 MPH well lets say thats not fun. End over end the sled when with me half aboard....
Got it righted and took inventory some beat up plastic and a taillight light. And of course new skis!!! Oh well got it back to the Trailer and put some new skis on it. Off to find a tailight and some duct tape and got it back together for the next day.
A little sore from that one
Fargo ND Feb 14th
This was a 5 mile loop in a horse track set-up and it got Rough track that got real hammered out. Wind was blowing at 20-30 MPH cuasing blowing snow and drifts it was soft loose snow and with the wind holding any lines were tough. This was fun with the short track as they started us only 8 sec apart. This created some side by side racing, which was fun. The mod clas went well where I finished 7th out of 11. Not the best run but I was happy with the result. This is a pro class so a top 10 finish is always good.
Next was the stock class. Track was even rougher for this race. and we gave it all we had but I had some suspension issues from the Crash the previous day. Camber was off Causing some handling issues. We rode it hard but I knew a time of 28 min in 4 laps was not going to get it down. We ended up in 13th plass. However both sleds made it through the Race and we were happy with the results and learned some more about the set-ups. Next up isThe Muinising 300
Stock class went rough made it two miles and somehow brake a ski. Hmm no ski then the spindle stick in the ground at 45 MPH well lets say thats not fun. End over end the sled when with me half aboard....
Got it righted and took inventory some beat up plastic and a taillight light. And of course new skis!!! Oh well got it back to the Trailer and put some new skis on it. Off to find a tailight and some duct tape and got it back together for the next day.
A little sore from that one
Fargo ND Feb 14th
This was a 5 mile loop in a horse track set-up and it got Rough track that got real hammered out. Wind was blowing at 20-30 MPH cuasing blowing snow and drifts it was soft loose snow and with the wind holding any lines were tough. This was fun with the short track as they started us only 8 sec apart. This created some side by side racing, which was fun. The mod clas went well where I finished 7th out of 11. Not the best run but I was happy with the result. This is a pro class so a top 10 finish is always good.
Next was the stock class. Track was even rougher for this race. and we gave it all we had but I had some suspension issues from the Crash the previous day. Camber was off Causing some handling issues. We rode it hard but I knew a time of 28 min in 4 laps was not going to get it down. We ended up in 13th plass. However both sleds made it through the Race and we were happy with the results and learned some more about the set-ups. Next up isThe Muinising 300
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