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* Maple Grove 2002 Race Report * |
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My bride, now in her last week of school, could not get the time off work, so I travelled to the Grove with my good friend Eric Pettit. You will read more about Eric on several of my other pages. The trip to PA was about 10 hours and it was a little hard on Eric, but he made it further than he has been in several years. I was happy about that. Saturday morning, the rain continued from Friday night, about 3/4 of an inch in all, but by noon it had quit and the track staff did an outstanding job prepping the track. I made the first of two qualifying passes at 4:15 PM was a 10.86! Finally, I was under the index. A quick plug read at the end of the track indicated the need for more gas. After a quick jet change, I made my second and final qualifying pass at 8:00 PM. It felt even faster and i rolled out of the throttle just past the 1,000' mark and again ran a 10.86! Maybe I should be running in the ET class! Sunday brought partly cloudy skies and 45º for the test and tune session. I made some adjustments to get to the other side of the index and ran a clean 10.95. Now I was getting excited. The first round win came with an 11.05 blast, I laid off the throttle just a little so as not to breakout. The second pass, I caught the red light in the other lane and cut a horrible .600 light then ran it out the back door with a 10.94. The third round, I again tried to play the throttle a little and ended up playing it too much and was eliminated with an 11.14 to 11.16 loss. I wanted to race more, but was satisfied in the knowledge that the bike would indeed run the number and again finished in the quarter finals. I maintained my #9 spot nationally and moved up to #8 in the Eastern division. Man am I looking forward to Norwalk! See you there. Stay tuned for more! And THANKS for visiting the MAVRIK Racing pages!
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