Well, the mini race was pretty cool. The win was taken by Joe Morris on an NSR50 followed by Jeff Walker, the Angry Sweded and Max Norton all on Honda XR50's. Right now we just hit halfway in the Open Superstock race. It's Mark Crozier leading Scott Harwell by about 20 bikelengths. Scott Carpenter had the early lead due to the starter throwing the flag a bit later than Scott wanted Harwell then took over as Carpenter came in for a stop and go but only for a couple of laps until Crozier came flying by. Crozier is making up most of his time through the bowl section where Harwell had a crash earlier today, allowing Crozier a better drive down the back straight stretching his lead a little bit every lap. The 600 and 750 races should be very interesting with a visit from AMA regulars Josh Hayes and Mike Smith....
White flag is out and no change. It's Mark Crozier over Scott Harwell and then Scott Brown in 3rd. Up next is is the Pirelli 600 Superstock Novice race.
And unsurpirsingly on lap 1 it's Diego off in the 90's Jeff Walker is leading over Max Norton and Mike Scruggs.
Halfway through lap 2 Justin Adams moved around Scruggs into 3rd and he's heading for Norton now.... Adams takes 2nd from Norton in a nice smooth pass down the front straight and into T1. Greg Moore coming from back in the pack somewhere went flying past Adams into the 90's but ran wide recovered and made the pass in the bowl.
Well, as the halfway flags come out Moore has made up a huge amount of distance on Walker. Then it's Scruggs in 3rd over Adams and Norton. Wow, Moore just made one heck of a pass on Walker in the bowl. Now Moore has flat out walked away from the rest of the field. Doh, looks like Max Norton ran up on a backmarker and crashed in the 90's he's up and fine and it looks like minimal damage to the bike.
Checkered flag is out and it hasn't changed since just before halfway - the final is Moore over Walker and then Scruggs a ways back in 3rd.
Up next is the Dunlop 600 Superstock star studded extravaganza! 22 bikes on the grid including the favorites from last weekend Stokes, Jacobi and Harwell as well as Mark Junge who got quite a bit of 600cc track time yesterday during the 4 hour but with Mike Smith and Josh Hayes thrown into the mix for a bit of flavor Josh is starting on row 12 and Smith is on row 5....
Jacobi takes the early lead over Harwell and then Stokes, the Yaakov, make that Yaakov then Stokes now... Mike Smith moves into 5th...
Josh Hayes is in 13th after one lap, atthe end of 2 it's Smith in 4th working at Yaakov, no change up front. Hayes is in 12th...
Great race for 3rd between Smith and Yaakov, they are both strong in different areas. Jacobi is stretching his lead over Harwell with Yaakov still in 3rd and Smith in 4th, Stokes fell back slightly but it looks as though he's moving back up. Mike SMith with a nice slide through the middle of the 90's, allowing Stokes to cathc back up. The into T8 Yaakov takes over 2nd from Harwell. Now it's nose to tail Yaakov, Harwell, Smith and Stokes. Hayes has moved up to 10th or so...
And just to make it really interesting Crozier as caught up to the 4 bike battle for 2nd place making it a 5 bike battle (duh). Crozier gets pulled by the group down the back straight but makes it all back up on the brakes. Jacobi's lead just gets larger and larger as the bikes behind him battle for position.
Harwell is back in 2nd over Yaakov, Smith, Crozier then Stokes. Hayes has moved to 8th over Matt Furtek. Adam Coco is running a lonely race in 7th. Harwell has stretched 2nd as long as it has been all race - 4 bike lengths. Hayes has gotten aorund Coco finally for 7th and brought Furtek along with. Hayes has a bit of a gap to the battle for 2nd. Now it's Stokes aorund Smith for 4th, Smith's tires seem to be shot as usual. Now for the fun - white flag and it's Harwell in 2nd with Stokes right behind him, Crozier in 4th then Yaakov has been shuffled back to to 5th place. And...... it's the same to the checkers! Wow. That was a hell of a race. Wow again. I really like this stuff I feel most sorry for Jacobi - he missed all the cool raicng going on behind him.
That was actually a pretty good race. Jason Peters walked away with it as was expected but there was a great battle between Pat Chandler and GPRacer15 (Chuck DiGregorio) for 2nd place wiht Chandler finally taking it. Next is the 750 Superstock Expert race.
This one looks great as well - Stokes gets a fantastic start to lead most of the first lap however Tray Batey takes over and starts pulling away.... End of 3 it's Batey, Stokes, Harwell, Jacobi, Smith, and Crozier - the freight train has begun yet again.
Well, Jacobi makes a killer pass throuh the 90's around Harwell and looks to try and get Stokes. Mike Smith goes aorund the outside of Harwell in T8 and as they flick back to the left gets extremely out of shape, like Randy Mamola out of shape, that balks Harwell allowing Smith and Crozier past.
And with a smooth and easy pass up the inside going into 8 Jacobi takes over 2nd from Stokes, Smith is now right on Stokes' tail with Crozier right behind him.
And Mike Smith seems to think that Jacobi had the right idea and passes Stokes in 8 as well. Crozier taking Stokes into the 90's. It's now Batey a long way ahead of Jacobi, Smith, Crozier and Stokes. Smith tries Jacobi in the 90's and fails. Crozier then stuffs it up under Smith in the bowl and takes Jacobi in turn 8 to take over 2nd!
Looks like Smith has toasted his tires yet again as he drops back into 5th place pretty quickly. Crozier has really stepped it up and pulled away form Jacobi. Checker is out and the freight train has broken up - it's Batey over Crozier, Jacobi, Stokes, Smith and Harwell.
Well that was fun, did a quick check of the top three bikes wiht nothing seeming to be out of place. Didn't see too much of the 750 Superstock Novice race but it was Greg Moore dissapearing from the rest of the field, Jeff Walker in 2nd place and Max Norton in 3rd place over Scruggs in 4th and Justin Adams in 5th. Now taking the grid is the Formula 2 Expert and Novice field.
