In Reply to: Re: I quit. posted by WERA689 on April 2, 2007 at 15:16:14:
Towards the end, I didn't want to ride anymore unless the streets were wet and I didn't want to do track days or do one-off rides because the point of that wouldn't have been to demoralize my competition with a crushing defeat on my way to a championship...or something.And the money, good lord....trying to keep up with stereo joneses is a joke by comparison...you've never spent money until you've supported a racing habit.
What was your home track? I was CMRA (Oakhill Raceway, Henderson, Tx.; and Texas World, College Station, Tx.) until I decided to ditch WERA in favor of the AMA. I ended up in AHRMA racing BoT, BEARS and in some of the vintage classes. My claims to fame are taking riding school with Colin Edwards, putting Nicky Hayden into the tire wall at Oakhill with a radical turn one move on the outside that put me in the lead of my division (and half the field in the pits), and winning 3 AMA national number one plates with AHRMA before I quit. My big regret was Daytona...3 times I led my class at Daytona with 65 people or more only to have something go horribly wrong before the end of my race. Once they black flagged me because they thought I was sliding in my own oil going into turn one coming off the banking. I was like, wtf is the matter with you people, don't you know who I am, that's how I roll!!?!?!
They were like, yeah, black flag, take a seat. :-(
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Follow Ups
- I just couldn't do it anymore. - j_thunders 16:53:03 04/02/07 (6)
- Re: I just couldn't do it anymore. - WERA689 20:39:26 04/03/07 (5)
- Nice tracks. - j_thunders 07:32:17 04/04/07 (0)
- Re: I just couldn't do it anymore. - WERA689 20:41:56 04/03/07 (3)
- Yeah Nicky was on his MotoLiberty 125 whenever I had my incident with him. - j_thunders 07:20:59 04/04/07 (2)
- Re: Yeah Nicky was on his MotoLiberty 125 whenever I had my incident with him. - WERA689 17:08:22 04/04/07 (0)
- Re: Yeah Nicky was on his MotoLiberty 125 whenever I had my incident with him. - WERA689 17:01:58 04/04/07 (0)