Regionals - Seattle On-Road Racers

Asphalt racing is the best (when it doesn't rain). Weather made this past weekend a struggle. The race team in Seattle was very level headed (and I bought beer when it was raining). Our new track spray program worked amazingly well with on and off rain on Saturday. We got 4 rounds of qual points was executed on Saturday afternoon/evening before mains on Sunday. The changing conditions made it fun to test various mighty gripper traction compounds - trying White, Black and Orange.

::: 21.5 TC

Starting with my car from Bakersfield all I got to do Saturday was change my pinion and spur. Thankfully Sunday weather was good and I could dial in my 21.5 awesomatix A800RR handling and jimdieterracing JP1 21.5 motor gearing. We would run triple As, with me rolling off 2nd behind Canyon Thompson and in front of Brian Bodine. A1 was the first time I felt like I was quick enough finishing within the same second. A2 was full send with one more pinion and using my saved set of Sweep Racing 32D tires (limited to 2 sets for the event). After about 5 different passes for the lead Canyon got a body tuck with 30s to go on the entrance to the infield and unfortunately the battle was over. A3 was another tight battle, but around the 3m mark I was able to get inside on the fast infield double right and just made sure to not tap out to take the win.