Beer Ranch East Race Report

[gcat7]

A stupendous day for racing ranch east. No racing on a sun spot today, temp was perfect & the track flowed like a bathtub gin prohibition party... it was awesome. Thank you to the Beer ranch crew & Dan's gang for another outstanding race event. Even the dust was tasty

on to the report from the 700 club

The usual crew lined up with a few fresh faces but a few friendly souls were MIA. Dan's challenge to the 727 bike didn't go over well & John unwittingly made a dirt angel in the first turn but he rebounded nicely as the day went on. I was lucky and missed most of the fun to the outside with Ryan Walker nabbing the hole shot. I might have went into the sticks 4th or 5th. Man the track was flowing everyone was ripping along for an uneventful lap one, Walker in the lead, 765 bike in the two spot and me in 3 and Salmons a close 4th.

Lap 2, Walker stopped to collect a few rock sample and the top 3-4 went around. Some how Salmans & the 765 ended up in front of me however Ryan S hit a poor hidden rabbit and dumped (well is wasn't a rabbit, it was a rock that looked like a rabbit perhaps). Anyway I wound up in 1st with the 765 bike on my ass. I could hear his bike all day ...was like WTF who is this guy as we were shredding each others knobbies all the way thru lap 6. We must of had our class superman capes on it felt like we flying pushing each other as hard as possible. There was virtually no room for passing without smelling hickory and no checker @ the end of lap 5. Dammit one more lap.

I had about 7-10 seconds on the 765 thru scoring which if I kept the throttle on, I might have been ok until that Tarzan Vine almost made me the star of Eastwood's Hang 'em Nigh movie. I backed myself out of Tarzan's dong and still had the lead. 765 did get me when I took the low off-camber sweep up hill I he took a line I never saw all day up top. He gained a little distance but I knew if I could stay on his tire, I'd get him if he went wide right & I took the downhill stair step. That happened but he had enough distance and we traded paint at the base but kept ripping each others knobbies off the rest of lap where I crossed a disappointing 2nd by 1 second. Congratulated 765 @ the finish ...it was a damn good race. Not sure I could keep that pace again but it was fun. God bless the new series scoring & ended up with 1st place points.

Thanks again all,
G out

[jgordo]

Nothing like being called out on the line by the man holding the starting board!! I guess the Ryan's don't like blue meat in their sandwiches because they didn't waste anytime spitting me out and hauling into the woods! I did have to chuckle to myself as I rolled last into the woods.... I thought I liked this course better running the other way but I think Sunday changed my mind!! I used my line on the uphill side of the off-camber hill to do most of my passing. Thanks to Dan for burning it into my brain the last 4 years to use that practice lap to take a good look at things and not just to go fast! Good day overall! Minus the micro burst during the start of the second race that ruined G-cat and my awnings!