AHRMA Kershaw 8/18-8/19
I got home late last night from a great weekend of racing with AHRMA at Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw, SC. AHRMA is a nice low key environment with lots of comraderie and some fantastic twins classes as well as all of the vintage classes they are know for having. I entered the Team Motorrad R1200S in BOT F1 and BOT F2 both Saturday and Sunday. BOT is Battle of the Twins, and the F1 class is unresricted run what you brung. The F2 class is limited displacement depending on configuration. Both races had good attendance for the weekend, with over 10 on the grid in each race Saturday and just under 10 on Sunday (attrition happens!). During Friday practice, my suspension tuner Rick Tannebaum from "Cogent Dynamics":http://www.motocd.com (he came with me to race his 748 Ducati and help me with my setup) and I tried out some new settings and were able to get the R1200S flying better than ever. We still have the stock motor in the bike right now since we are working on the race motor getting things ready for the MOTO-ST 8-hour race coming up at Daytona the end of October. Even with the stock engine we got the bike down to lap times that would have put me mid-pack in WERA 600, and on top of the podium in WERA Heavyweight Twins. I couldn't have been happier, considering the stock engine and that we had temperatures on Friday appoaching 106 degrees in the shade. On Saturday we ran away with both races. Ted Cobb, and instructor for the Kevin Schwantz school, gave me a run at the beginning of the F2 race, but wasn't able to stay with me for long. In F1 I went completely unchallenged. On Sunday it was a repeat, with the F2 race a little closer as Cobb and I encountered a lapped rider in the last turn on the last lap. I had to slow down and let the lapper into the turn first and Cobb was able to catch up. I went to the inside of the lapper at the exit of the corner and Cobb went to the outside, and I was able to get a better drive off the turn and beat Cobb to the line. Thanks to everyone who makes it possible, especially BMW XPLOR, Touring Sport BMW, Cogent Dynamics, Wunderlich, Rock Oil, Cee Bailey's Aircraft Plastics, Carbone Lorraine, Shock Doctor, and RaceHost.com "Team Motorrad":http://www.teammotorrad.com
Posted 12:41 PM, Aug 20, 2007 by bmwivan
