Starting tomorrow I'll be riding as a control rider for Adrenaline Freaks Track Days (http://adrenalinefreaks.com/). I've honored to be able to to control ride for them as they are a great organization that is one of the first motorcycle track day companies at Pacific Raceways.
The rest of Adrenaline Freak's schedule for 2010 is as follows:
Thursday, May 6th - Pacific Raceways
Friday, June 11th - Pacific Raceways
Friday, August 13th - Pacific Raceways
Friday, September 10th - Pacific Raceways
So come on out and get addicted!
So it was time to replace my OEM rotors which were on my rain wheel set. They were wavy and caused shuttering at the end of braking. Not something I like to feel when I'm on wets cause they are bumpy enough as it is. I decided to go for Brake Tech AXIS Cobra Stainless rotors. Well initially I went for their Ductile Iron rotors as they supposely superior. But it turns out the Vesrah SRJL-17 brake pads wouldn't be compatible. The best pads I could run would be carbon pads and my issue with this is I would need to switch brake pads when I switch between drys and wets. This is because I don't trust carbon pads in the wet anymore due to a time when they got cooled in a puddle and I didn't have brakes for the next turn. Thankfully Kneedraggers.com had great customer service and helped me with the exchange.
So while I was switching the rotors out I was curious about their weights. Turns out...the EBC Wave rotors I was running on my dry wheels (they are now on my wet wheels) are 2 oz's lighter than the OEM rotors and the Brake Tech rotors (OEM/BrakeTech are 3lbs 6.2 oz). Yup the Brake Tech rotors and the OEM rotors are the same weight. The big difference is that the Brake Tech rotors and the EBC rotors are much thicker than the OEM rotors. This means they can handle more heat.
Now...its time to go racing. First race weekend is this weekend but first a track day with Adrenaline Freaks. Wish me luck!
All three racing organizations that I run with have posted their 2010 calendar. Now it is time to sit down and figure out where I'll be and when. Below are the list of all of the dates. The entries for Adrenline Freaks (a track day company) is based on their previous practice of having a day before the WMRRA weekend. For the OMRRA three day weekends I expect Cascade Track Time to be taking the Friday days to provide a track day before the race weekend. I bolded the entries which have conflicting dates.
Jan 10th - WERA West - Fontana
Jan 30-31st - WERA West - Las Vegas
March 30th - 31st - CTT - Portland
April 2nd - Adrenline Freaks - Pacific
April 3rd - 4th - WERA West - Las Vegas
April 3rd - 4th - WMRRA - Pacific
April 29th - CTT - Portland April 30th - May 2nd - AHRMA - Portland
May 7th - Adrenline Freaks - Pacific
May 8th - 9th - WERA West - Buttonwillow
May 8th - 9th - WMRRA - Pacific
May 21st - 23rd - WERA National - Miller
May 20 - 21st - CTT - Portland May 22st - 23rd - OMRRA - Portland
Jun 5th - CTT - TBD
Jun 11th - Adrenline Freaks
Jun 12th - 13th - WMRRA - Pacific
Jun 25th - CTT - Portland
Jun 26th - 27th - OMRRA - Portland
Jul 6th - CTT - Portland "Festivals" Jul 16th - Adrenline Freaks - Pacific
Jul 17th - 18th - WMRRA - Pacific
Jul 23rd - CTT - Portland
Jul 24rd - 25th - OMRRA - Portland
Aug 10th - CTT - Portland "Festivals"
Aug 13th - Adrenline Freaks - Pacific
Aug 14th - 15th - WMRRA - Pacific
Aug 20th - CTT - Portland
Aug 21th - 22nd - OMRRA - Portland
Sep 5th - WERA West - Fontana
Sept 8th - CTT - Portland "Festivals"
Sep 10th - Adrenline Freaks - Pacific
Sept 11th - 12th - WMRRA - Pacific
Sept 24th - CTT - Portland
Sept 25th - 26th - OMRRA - Portland
Oct 1st - Adrenline Freaks - Pacific
Oct 2nd - 3rd - WMRRA - Pacific
Oct 7th - 10th - WERA GNF - Atlanta
Oct 9th - CTT - TBD Oct 22nd - CTT - Portland Oct 23nd - 24th - OMRRA - Portland
Nov 6th - 7th - WERA West - Las Vegas
In my first year of running WERA West and after missing two rounds (engine blew in Las Vegas and didn't attent Button Willow) I finished 7th in Lightweight Twins Superbike and 9th in Formula 2. It was a great season and I loved racing with WERA. Here's to next year!
Here is another excellent photo from Brandon Bones of Studio819 from the WERA GNF at Road Atlanta. This one is from coming out of turn 5.
Chris's 2010 Resume is now available. You can view the PDF
here
This year I went to the WERA GNF. Below are some great shots by Brandon Bones of Studio819 from this event.
Here is a video I did of my 450 Superbike race with OMRRA on July 26th. I ended up getting black flagged as my rear camera fell off and was danging around. That really sucked as I was having a great race with Tyson Silva pushing me to increase my corner speed as that is where he would catch up with me since I had a ton of power over his CRF450R Supermoto.
I hope you enjoy this.
Well I finally went out to ride my local track, Pacific Raceways. Boy...I forgot just how freaking bumpy that track is. But it is a great place to do some bike setup due to the long straight and the hard braking into turn 3. Other than going out and doing some recreating I also took the opportunity to do some testing.
Since I converted my bike's chassis to a superbike I've been running a Bandit 1200 5.5" rear wheel. Last year when I was riding Pirelli's I would run a 180 Diablo Superbike Slick on the rear. This year with my switch to Dunlop I was recommended to run a 190 NTEC. Needless to say that 190 NTEC is massive for the SV650 weighting in at 32lbs mounted on that Bandit rim. Well at the last OMRRA round I had enough and got a stock SV650 rear wheel to mount up a 165 Dunlop slick. It was a great improvement but there was a nagging side effect. At one point in the lean the bike would just want to fall down. Well one day I ran into Dunlop's fitting chart and it turns out the preferred rim width for that tire is a 5.5" rim. Bingo!
So I got it mounted it up at the Pacific round and went for some laps. Boy is that much better. The lean is very consistant and doesn't want to fall down in the turn. I'm very very pleased.
Anyhow...time for some pictures from Brandon Bones of Studio819 (http://studio819.smugmug.com/)
I finally took a moment to update my results from this past year. They really sucked but I need to keep them up to date. I've also plugged in the rest of the planned race rounds into the results.
http://burgiracing.com/page/Race-Results.aspx