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My weekend didn’t go too great. I had a major
business bombshell dropped on me on Friday afternoon as I was
rigging up the RV to head out. This totally took my head out
of racing. Saturday was pathetic, I didn’t manage anything better
than a 1:20 flat. I placed 7th in both the middle weight and heavy
weight solo’s. I sorted out part of the mess
that evening in order to get that shit out of my head and I managed
to feel a little better for Sunday.
Sunday in practice I felt good. I was keeping up with some real fast
guys in practice. Guys capable of 1:16’s. We were doing 1:19’s in
practice. I was still having issues with my bike going into false
neutral and then freewheeling in to the corner. And it would stall
immediately when this happened. I was able to fire it up in practice
and keep going. It wasn’t the electrical issue anymore. Now it was
transmission. First race was HWT SB and I was in 2nd place with 2
laps to go when the bike went into false neutral at T3 and stalled.
It took me 10+ seconds to get it restarted and I got passed and put
into 3rd. I fired the bike up and within 1.5 laps I caught the guy
and held onto 2nd. Second race was 750 superbike. I was in a solid
5th doing 1:18’s within sight of the leaders when the bike cut out
going into T1 on the very last lap. I couldn’t get it fired up this
time. I rode the truck back to the pits. After the bike cooled down
a bit, I tried restarting it and that’s when I heard clanking in the
motor. I shut it off immediately. I’m thinking maybe that some part
that makes up the shift linkage came loose and is wondering around
inside the motor. I hope it hasn’t done too much damage. I guess I’m
taking a premature trip to Atlanta. Or I may pull the side cover
off. I have no idea.
Again I want to thank my sponsors BR-111 Exotic Hardwood
Flooring, Maximum Hardwood floors, Battley
Cycles, Genesis Accounting, Pirelli,
Ducshop Racing, EBC, Sobre Rodas Magazine, Achieve Fitness, Design
by
Duno, Engead, Motorcycle Leather Exchange and Sienna Motors.
See you in 2 weeks hopefully.
Dennys Passeto
