• Blame it on the Rain

   Continuing the Wi-Fi experience for the second weekend, there's not much new coming from the cloudy skies of Joliet.  As the picture above shows, we spent enough time away from the track today to snap a picture of our new friendly visitor.We were up ...

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  Saturday, May 13th, 2006 | POSTED AT: 10:50 PM
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• Rain Men

   Cold and rainy was the weather today.  We mounted rains and even toyed with mounting intermediates at one point - with half the track starting to dry before the clouds opened up again with more rain.  We're pitted near Chris Knight, Sherri Trautman (who came to help Chris, even without her ...

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  Friday, May 12th, 2006 | POSTED AT: 10:32 PM
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• Autobahn National Preparations

  T-minus 3 hours and counting before we leave for the Chicago area (Joliet more specifically), and our first WERA National of the season.  Gina, my dad (Joe) and myself are making the trip, with James meeting us there late tonight.  The weather forecast looks grim; cold and wet Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  No matter though, as we're ready to mount the rain tires and give it ...

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  Thursday, May 11th, 2006 | POSTED AT: 1:43 PM
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• Love Tap

  In the first race this past Sunday, I thought I had felt a little tap/bump behind me, exiting the carousel on the first lap of the C-Superbike race; which did turn out to be the case.  Check out the following video courtesy of Christian Volcko which shows it.  Also notice the guy in the second wave trying to sneak in a good start:...

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  Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 | POSTED AT: 2:53 PM
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• Latest Pictures

   Pictures from Nelson Ledges have been posted in the gallery section.  Photography is courtesy of Marsha Kraft, with special contributions and thanks to Eric Johnston who sent a few great shots that he took this past weekend.  The photo above is one of Dave Grey ...

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  Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | POSTED AT: 10:17 PM
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• 2006 WERA – Nelson Ledges 5/6-7 Sunday

   As you saw in the previous two posts here, Friday and Saturday at Nelson Ledges went well.  I had a good practice on Friday, with a solid 20 lap race on Saturday (7th place finish) and was working to continue the trend on Sunday.  Friday and Saturday's ...

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  Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | POSTED AT: 6:02 AM
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• Saturday Recap Courtesy of the Holiday

  Back online here in the room after a good Middleweight Solo 20 race.  Practice started well this morning where James made some suspension changes to help soak up some of Nelson's character "bumps" and give the front end a more planted feeling.  We've got a little work to do as the rear end is hopping around a bit, but we've got a game plan for ...

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  Saturday, May 6th, 2006 | POSTED AT: 9:47 PM
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• Friday Night Feed Via Holiday Inn

  I'm sitting here in my room, utilizing wireless internet connectivity in a hotel for the first time.  I'd have thought this would have happened sooner, but it's only recently that I've had a laptop to do this.  Kudos to the Holiday Inn here in Newton Falls, as it's a really nice hotel and only 10-15 minutes from the track.In any event, practice today at Nelson Ledges went well.  ...

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  Friday, May 5th, 2006 | POSTED AT: 9:52 PM
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• 2006 WERA – BeaveRun 4/29-30

  Round one was one of those types of weekends where you don't quite know how to classify how it went once it's over. It wasn't a great weekend, but it certainly wasn't a bad weekend either. Let's take a look at what happened and you can be the judge on how ...

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  Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 | POSTED AT: 12:35 PM
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• Monday Morning Grind

  Back from BeaveRun with a thorough understanding of the work that needs to be done to be competitive at 600 expert level.  I need to go faster!  Plenty of work to do and not much time to rest, as we're headed to Nelson Ledges this upcoming weekend.  Cramming work, bike preparations, and real life together in the next 4 days will be hectic.  I'll have ...

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