What a rain storm! We waited to see if it might miss us but
when it started to drive rain hard we changed the 250 bike to the rain setup
and with the time left before practice decided to run it in
both classes.
We figured that power would not be the play of the
day,even at this high speed track.
The rain let up after the qualifiers but there was so much
water we cancelled the dirt section. There was small streams running across the
end of the straight that would aqua plain you going into the first turn so
throttle control was key.
I saw some big high side crashes but most survived to
finish.
My CRF 250 was the best choice as we managed to win both the
SM 250 and the Vet 35 class that has all 450 bikes.
Patience and throttle control was the lesson of the day and
if you did not learn it you would be very sore the next week.
