NQ1965
PR Elite
My bike, gear, tools, etc. was all packed and staged in the garage ready to load. I was nearly pacing the floor at 11pm Saturday night stewing on rather or not I would be racing in the morning. Kept waiting and checking for a cancellation or updates....."nothing".
We were left to assume that "they are still racing", which you have to admit is kind of unusual for tracks taking a wash out like we had. And then we're waking up at 5:15 - 5:30am to thunder and downpours, and I'm thinking, surely, they'll probably have to cancel now. The only facebook update I seen was a question if they would announce it if they were canceling, which they did reply "Yes we will announce it if we do".
Once Nancy and I arrived at the track at 12:00-noon, and was talking to riders in the pits, and then once moto's began, we were hearing how many of these guys were out of state travelers, I then understood. No matter what, they were holding races. One family was from California, another from Nevada, and then Pennsylvania and West Virginia. And then they actually did get a bit of a break, when one of the storm cells that was headed our way around 11:30-12am didn't really produce anything or missed us.
In hindsight, one side of my brain wish's I would've just loaded and drove to the track, (which would've been in the rain), just to support Honda Hills for their hard work and effort. And had I of known that they were staying open primarily to serve their out of state visitors, I might have done that. But the other side of my brain knows that when I line up on the gate these days, I Want a Race! Two or three in the class just isn't a lot of fun, particularly if the racers aren't able to battle it out.
We were left to assume that "they are still racing", which you have to admit is kind of unusual for tracks taking a wash out like we had. And then we're waking up at 5:15 - 5:30am to thunder and downpours, and I'm thinking, surely, they'll probably have to cancel now. The only facebook update I seen was a question if they would announce it if they were canceling, which they did reply "Yes we will announce it if we do".
Once Nancy and I arrived at the track at 12:00-noon, and was talking to riders in the pits, and then once moto's began, we were hearing how many of these guys were out of state travelers, I then understood. No matter what, they were holding races. One family was from California, another from Nevada, and then Pennsylvania and West Virginia. And then they actually did get a bit of a break, when one of the storm cells that was headed our way around 11:30-12am didn't really produce anything or missed us.
In hindsight, one side of my brain wish's I would've just loaded and drove to the track, (which would've been in the rain), just to support Honda Hills for their hard work and effort. And had I of known that they were staying open primarily to serve their out of state visitors, I might have done that. But the other side of my brain knows that when I line up on the gate these days, I Want a Race! Two or three in the class just isn't a lot of fun, particularly if the racers aren't able to battle it out.
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