Photos from the GNF

can Somebody help me locate them? Want to see the monsoon shots.

 

Lee Fields with https://www.activeshooterphotography.com/ was there the whole time. It doesn't look like he has any uploaded yet. I'm sure it's a shitload of images from 4 days of action, so it may take a while.

 

Here's a couple that Lee posted to Facebook over the weekend.

 

why I didn't go out in practice friday or Saturday!

 

Holy crap!

 

The hydroplaning was the only thing that bothered me. lol But it was on every single lap... Especially right after the start/finish line, 3/4 of the way down the straight out of Charlotte's web and into and out of the chicane in the back. That was in race's 9 and 12 on Saturday. Bucked me out of the saddle a few times. It scarred me so bad mentally, that I was over 3 seconds off of my dry pace on Sunday.

 

holy shit. that’s a whole lotta nope for me dawg!

 

Where's the boats?

 

If only these came in 17" sizes... https://www.bikebandit.com/tires-tu...urge-p-c7220-8-paddle-motorcycle-tire/p/34237

 

Exactly. I could take the lower grip conditions, but being legitimately concerned about just losing control of the bike in the middle of a straight is pretty creepy. I had several "moments" and it slowed me down quite a bit.

 

It was moist, that's for sure. Hydroplaned a good bit coming out of Charlotte's web going into the museum corner. Huge sheet of water that was right there when you'd want to get on the brakes, made things interesting. About launched myself to the moon on the back straight as you flick the bike left to right, got on the gas just a smidge too hard and spun that rear up and bars went straight to full lock, ass outta the seat, both feet off the pegs. Nothing but dumb luck saved that one, wasted no time getting hard on the gas afterwards. I got lucky, but many others were not in that section of the track.

 

And a good time was had by all . . .

 

Yeah, after a few laps of trying to somewhat push it and the bike spinning up or losing traction, I just cruised around the rest of the race.

 

Video from Doug Royce on Saturday.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=982726942081320&id=544489572571728&sfnsn=mo&d=n&vh=e

 

Was that with full rains or dot’s?
Water looks deep where he’s cutting thru it.

 

I'm assuming full rains. That water was really deep in that area along with several other spots. I tried a rain front and DOT rear on my supermoto for the Clubman race on Saturday and it was like riding on ice. Very bad decision on my part...lol Ran rains front and back on the SV though.

 

I can't imagine anything other than full rains being used.

 

I’m just curious why you even considered a DOT. It seemed plenty wet. I managed to run 6 races Friday and Saturday on the 690 and the rear was still in pretty good shape. Will say the two AMA races 9&12 on Saturday were nuts. Head got thrown back from the splash off another bike.

 

What happened to the standing water rule? Does it no longer exist?

 

Would have never raced if that rule was followed. There was plenty of carnage but not sure there would have been any less had there not been any standing water.