Ever look at the forecast and just say f the races?

Well, that is doing a poor job at destroying america's racing scene.


...or is it yet just an evil ploy?

 

Skipped more than one race at Mid O due to rain but ran my novice races at Nashville in a monsoon! Depends on the track.

 

Never been much of a weather watcher. I knew I was going to be at the track and the weather would be whatever it was going to be. No sense in wasting energy thinking about it. Just made sure I had everything in order to make changes etc.

 

I kinda like the rush of being on track, everything else about it sucks though.

 

Wouldn't mattered. Alarm woke me up at 4am, fell back to sleep until 8:45. Storm came through at 11am pretty hard. Trees down in Beloit. Radar now says nothing until 9-10 tonight.

 

Racers race.

 

I raced at Roebling in the rain twice, IIRC.

Once when there was a hurricane off the GA coast. The Race Director told us after a very wet Saturday that as long as it didn't rain any more on Sunday the schedule would be as posted. Sunday morning it was sunny and hot (as usual.) Practice went on as normal. During lunch break it rained for about 20 minutes, just enough to form a puddle on the race line in T1. We started the races at 1 and the puddle was gone by 2.

Another time it rained the entire time I was on the track, for 4 races.

 

F@ck yeah ... if you show up you race. .. .
You young guys need to toughen the fuck up, rain is the great equalizer. It allows big guys to podium

 

I'm a fair weather racer. Rain sucks, and I'm out there to have fun. Only time I really raced in the rain was on my 450 at MAM.

 

You know, rain is one thing. 46* and rain is completely different. Not sure if Rockford was on the warm side of the cold front all day but the weather sucked bad here (about 25 miles north of Road America) all day.

 

Meh, took to the grid and raced at BHF with 2 inches of snow on ground. It is what it is. As always, ride to conditions.

Unless it’s Mid Ohio then bale with any precipitation or when temps get below 50.

 

Bale hay?

<bail>

 

I've cancelled going to the track for cold or rain many times. As was said before me, if I'm going to the track the whole point is to enjoy myself. Freezing, being wet, and going slow is not fun to me, especially not fun when it costs you a grand to do it.

 

Eh, rain is no big deal if it's reasonably warm. What kills me is tire swapping back and forth for wet/dry/wet conditions. Threw my back out this past weekend and pretty much ruined the rest of the weekend when the conditions were great.

 

So I heard the weather wasnt actually that bad on sunday. Bummed I couldnt make it.

 

You would have needed rains on for the first 3 races or so after lunch but that's it. I bought rains on Saturday then switched back to slicks Sunday morning and ran all 3 of my races on dry track.

Never count BHF out, the Blackhawk Vortex is always a mystery but sounds like you had other reasons for not being there

 

On this particular day, yes.

 

WOW where was that at and when?

 

Yup. All summer long. Another sunny cloudless day yet again. At 118*. No thanks.