I think vacations are awesome. Overseas vacations are even better!
But I probably should have timed my overseas vacation to Spain so that I wasn’t racing a motorcycle the very first time I also rode a motorcycle this year. (ok, technically race practice was the first time I rode a motorcycle this year, but whatever)
An explanation: Chicago weather is fickle. It didn’t make sense for me to take my street bike out of storage to live its sad “chained to a pole” life until I was ready to consistently ride it for the year. And for spring 2018, we’d have a nice day followed another four days of sleet or rain. Which means that I didn’t take my street bike out of storage before I left for Spain. And then two days after I arrived back, I left to go race a motorcycle!
Despite having been at this track before and considering it my ‘home track’, I didn’t really go into the race with high hopes. My best times at Gingerman have been hovering around 1:57, and I didn’t even get near to that in my race. So sad 🙁
Also, this race is where I discovered that there’s a glitch in the computer system that hates me. Check it out:
It’s like I’m not even there! When I contacted the race officials, they told me that they’d try to have it resolved by next race.
Whoever A. Voights (98V) is, we ran very similar times in practice and race, as both were well in my sights until about the 5th lap, when I was split by a couple other bikes going into turn 5. Ugh.