Thursday, January 31, 2008

SLASCAR -Winter Season wrap up

January 20th , the last cars crossed the line at Dirtfield to end the Winter Mini-Season. Due to its short length of only a couple months , the competition was fierce for the top spots. Many veterans returned to stake their claim, Jafo Tendaze, Doll Kabuki, Subwoofer Fuhr, Suzy Cuddihy, Greg Drayman, Aybabtu Abaye, Mango Birdbrain, Sonic Costello, Valiant Jewell, Mater Gamba, Dekul Runo. Challenging the vets this season was a skilled crop of rookies including Quick Gazov, Mac Heron, Katier Reitveld, Innes Merriman and Holden Saunders.

With all these vets and fast fresh faces , competition was at its highest since i started racing in SLASCAR, in the end i raced in a total of 19 races, i missed a bunch because of RL work and the holidays. I won 4 races, came in 2nd twice and in 3rd place 4 times. It was enough to bring me home 2 championships , in Baby Grand stocks and Legends.

Final standings-

Baby grands: 1st : Crippy Oh, 2nd: Jafo Tendaze, 3rd: Quick Gazov

Midget cars(Dirt track) : 1st Jafo Tendaze, 2nd : Sonic Costello, 3rd: Subwoofer Fuhr

Pure Stocks(Dirt Track): 1st (tie): Jafo Tendaze & Subwoofer Fuhr, 2nd: Sonic Costello
3rd: Greg Drayman

Legend cars: 1st: Crippy Oh, 2nd : Subwoofer Fuhr, 3rd: Jafo Tendaze

Pro Trucks: 1st: Subwoofer Fuhr, 2nd: Doll Kabuki, 3rd: Crippy Oh

Midnight Madness: 1st : Quick Gazov, 2nd: Mac Heron, 3rd Holden Saunders

Saturday, January 26, 2008

MotoSL Round 8- Mooz with a vengeance!



Ive already stated in my series of blogs that Mooz raceway is not amongst my favorites of the RaceSL series. It was first track i raced in lower than Group A race. I had a horrible race there once in FormulaSL where i was absolutely mugged to little pieces by 2 rookies. Although ive had some ok races here, most memories are not good.


MotoSL round 8 started as all other events, everyone at track de-scripted, and then clicked on the Queuer to enter there names in the race. The Queuer then randomly picks 3 riders to qualify together , 22 racers entered , a field of 5 rookies and 17 pros. The rookies ran their rounds together , then it was time for the pros .

Always ready to go , i waited for Les to hit that button for the 1st pro qualify round , and once again....this has to be 3rd or 4th time , i was in the 1st round .Which means i gotta gear up and get out there and do my thing with 2 other riders first , and my partners are very good riders also, Kandy Tommorow and Yuriko Nishi . After my failure at Snowpeach , where i qualed so badly , i was ready to go , my 1st lap woulda been good enough to stick me into 3rd overall , but my 2nd lap got me Pole Position, which is good , cause none of my other laps were any good, i fell twice.

After the first round i had to sit thru 14 more riders giving it there go , each one a class act and many , serious threats to topple me from Pole , Just Catteneo , Jafo Tendaze, Moto Ware, Yamaha Harley, Ram Pharoah, Doll Kabuki, Caine Beresford, all gave it a go in succession, but when the dust cleared i had held Pole Position =) my first ever in RaceSL .

Sitting on Pole with Jafo on my right sitting 2nd on the grid , nerves were hitting me , but in the end you have no choice but try to do your thing and just get thru it . 3-2-1 go and i got off very good , with Kandy hot on my tail . She got very close several times, the roar of her engine was very loud in my ear, after a lap or 2 Jafo got by Kandy and was after me .

Each time i passed the gate i looked for the rider behind me gate spam , if i can see it before i go around next turn , i know they are close. After a little bit Jafo's spam faded, and i decided to cruise a little easier . After several laps of no spam , i had a slow lap, around thru the gate , then suddenly i could see Jafo's spam as he came thru behind me , hot on my tail on lap 10 . I knew i had to pick up the pace.

3 laps he chased me , gaining on me and was within .980 seconds, when he hit the tires near the pit on lap 13, this gave me clear sailing the last 2 laps , just needed to stay on my bike..........which i did ..hehe . My first ever MotoSL win and 2nd ever RaceLS win, needless to say im very happy.

Moto Ware won the Group B race, with YumYum running a solid 2nd and Ram Pharoah getting 3rd. Doll Kabuki ran a solid Group C race with a big win and rookie Neko Carter came in 2nd in his first RaceSL race ever.

This win puts me from 6th place in standings to 4th place, just ahead of Silk Bamboo, on a sad note, Silk missed this race, even though she showed up just a few minutes too late to get in as a entry . Silk is a top notch competitor and she will be back i know that for sure.

Round 9 is next week at PSU, we are running the course in reverse, which will be very interesting .



Sunday, January 13, 2008

Road to Snowpeach ...Round 7 MotoSL

Last week Jafo Tendaze took his 4th MotoSL series win at PSU raceway , this week the series is back at the venerable Snowpeach complex owned by Count Bayliss.


The highlight of this event was the Group A race, specificly the battle between Motorato Ware and Kandy Tommorow. Jafo led the pack early , but spilled on lap 3 , giving Kandy a brief lead before Moto was able to jump in front . Kandy was hot on Moto's tail the entire race, falling back some , but then slowly creeping back up during the final laps , heading into the S turn before the finish line on the last lap , Moto didnt quite have the best line and struck the wall sending her flying , Kandy sped past and to victory .


Much congrats to Kandy Tommorow on her win , in the last 1 and half seasons of FSl and RaceSL (18 races total ) only 4 people out of the dozens of participants, had ever won a race, Jafo Tendaze, Just Catteneo , Moto Ware , and me (Crip Oh) .


Silk Bamboo won a controversial Group B race and Suzy Cuddihy's tenacity and persistence won her the Group C race. oh ya i raced too , i fell while leading the Group C race, on the last lap , letting Suzy by for the win .


The last 4 races have been poor performances for me , im now in 6th place overall , with Jafo in 1st, Just Catteneo 2nd, Moto Ware 3rd, Silk Bamboo in 4th, and Suzy pasing me into 5th . Gonna have to sharpen up to keep up with this extraordinarliy talented and competitive field . Next race is 2 weeks at Mooz , time to step up or go home =p


Pic of Silk Bamboo giving me Reiki therapy saturday after the race, at her clinic. Thanks Silk needed that =)