Ben Bostrom was at JGP today...

i'm going out on a limb and saying that no, he won't challenge Josh and Blake. He'll fall back into top 10 status like he's been doing the past couple of years. I believe he is pushing it right now because Pridmore is there and putting up super competitive times...possibly could step up and take his spot. Once that threat is gone, he'll be back to last year's pace, well, until the final round again and he needs a job for next year

sorry

 

I'm thinking and hoping he wil challenge the top few this year. He had made comments last year that they just started getting the bike dialed in later on in the season and his performance seemed to reflect that.

Let's not forget, he had two years on a yamaha before the 2011 season started with him riding for Jordan on the Suzuki.

 

I sure hope so! Get em BB! :up:

 

Confusing, but they were calling them FUSA in the early 2000's. (Linky) The last time I remember NASB at Loudon, I was still in T&S (Before 2001) and two of the three classes they ran were Harley powered.
I've been to FUSA when WERA had them, during the FUSA/NASB one year marriage, when they trickled down to a two race series under Doug Gonda and through to when they finally dropped the name altogether, because calling a horsepower restricted class Formula USA was obscene.
I just fondly remember FUSA in 2002, when Paul Curtis and Randy Stems backed me up and told the Rolling Gnome to f*** off when he started meddling with how I was running pit lane during my rookie year in the position.

 

Probably so. Paul is/was a hard bit crew chief tuner type from Green Cove Springs, Fla. who took shit from nobody.

For the SE crew, he was the genius behind Borge Larsen's stupid-fast FZRs.

 

Thems are fast 400s!

 

1:13.xxx = Sick time. If I dreamed of doing a 1:13, I'd wake up screaming
Mongo = too serious. :tut:
Sarge was fuggin tedious after the first joke. Jus gimme the facts and shut the hellup.
JGP loosing grip. I dunno. Maybe slow riders getting old. "Track record" keeps going down. - jus sayin.
A short guy called Rock picked me up outside T2 back in '05 - good guy. Liked him. Never did see him again after that.
I liked Dan. Straight shooter. Well done, Sir. :up::up:

And, that's all I have to say about that. {/gump}

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Did the Jordan team switch suspension vendors this year (or was it late last year)? I remember Zemke having all kinds of troubles with the ktech (???).

 

You owe me a new Laptop...

 

That reminded me of something. I did the Frank Kinsey school but I actually did it one on one with Frank at his home. About halfway through I asked him why he was so serious.

His response, "because this shit will kill you. This information I'm telling you is that important. If you want me to be funny we'll go to the bar afterwards and I'll tell you a few jokes while we're drinking a beer".

What a great afternoon.

 

I believe they are still on K-Tech and have been for a few years. Ben and Porkchop were finally getting it dialed in halfway thru last year, whereas Jake always seemed to have trouble getting a setup that didn't destroy the rear after 7 laps.

 

I texted back & forth with Rob just the other day. He's in Texas now.

 

bmart was just kidding about the grip at JGP.

Lots of peeps complain about it (perhaps they're there in the middle of summer when complaining), and while I'll agree that it's not as much grip as if it were new pavement..... as long as the times keep dropping.... there's enough grip for us mere mortals.

 

Here's the video. Bostrom/Pridmore side by side at Jennings...

 

Kewl...:up:

 

Wow.

 

We had races at Nelson Ledges in 80-82 that we called F-USA It was a run what you brung money race. I remember telling Doug Gonda about them at a party the night before the Indy car race at Cleveland where our Superbikes were the support race.