New Jersey Motorsports Park, 2018 (AHRMA)

When I don’t get to travel very often, I forget just how demoralizing learning a new racetrack can be.  Add that to all the other stuff (black flies, swampy heat, sand everywhere) and maybe NJMP Thunderbolt was a lesson in preparedness.

NJMP has a little bit of elevation change, and some cool turns.  Heading uphill from T1 into T2 is a hoot, you need to turn in before you can see the exit of the turn.  There is a mild hill heading into T5 as well, just after a cool fast kink.  And then there’s Turns 7, 8, 9, & 10, which is a never-ending decreasing-radius right turn leading into an even-tighter decreasing-radius left turn.  OMG.

Conditions were hot, sandy, and swampy.  Flies flew into our van  and wouldn’t leave.  I guess this is what we should have expected, being near the east coast in mid-July. 😉

I raced against Kandy and Leasha mostly, as my lap times weren’t really comparable to anyone else’s as I tried to wrap my head around this track.

Here’s a pic of my lonely ride across the finish line 🙂

Best Lap:

Race Day 1, Sound of Singles 3: 1:53:350

Race Day 2: lazy/hot, didn’t race.