NMA Eddieville GP

This weekend was the eddieville NMA GP, held on sunday Mar 18th. Sara and I drove over friday evening pulling into the pits about 1am, which sucked getting there so late but we sort of snuck in and avoided paying $20 in gate fees :-)

saturday we did the team race, which wasn't very pleasant until the last lap because they over-watered the entire course making it like butter on glass. I went down twice on my first lap on the grease, which pissed me off, then came into the whoop section way too hot and went down again! needless to say I did not have a very good race, but at least the last lap or so was ok.

sunday I was not too excited about the race. my bad luck on saturday and bike hasn't been performing the greatest, or more so having rode sara's bike I am not happy with my bikes handling! anyway, I started off the race kind of crappy, got a decent start but got passed by several people. then my axle nut came loose about my 2nd lap and I had to pull over and run to the pits for a wrench to tighten the nut.

something clicked shortly after that and I started riding better and having a good time. I passed some people back and finished 8th out of 24, not the greatest finish but considering I lost several positions having to fix my axle nut and not riding the best first few laps I am not disappointed with my result. And I felt I was riding pretty good, seemed like the longer we went the better my riding became, so I finished happy!

I have a full race report on my reports.dirtbikejunkieracing.com blog