The race track story......Its about a 2 hour drive for Fed and myself to get there. It is about 50 miles east of Denver just off I-70. It is a huge area just getting started. We raced on the ATV course but it has rock crawling, mud drag pits, tuff truck drags with jumps, a ralley car course(2+ miles), a smooth sweeping winding track(1.5 miles long, perfect for our buggies) and a huge MX dirt bike track. Its open weekends 9-6 and at $10 per person free to ride anything you want....I will be back alot!
We had around an hour and a half of practice after we got there to jet and learn the track. We had a quick drivers meeting then started in the ATV class. They also had under 1600CC buggy class, stadium class and an unlimited class. Most classes had 4-6 machines except the ATV class, it had about 10. Every quad was modified and most were extremely built. Several Banshees,Prediter(Outlaw?),440EX,450s,some other kind of belt drive Polaris(500cc), piped 350X (only other semi-stock than Feds ride),Fed on the 250R trike and me in the 420/350. The track is long, 2 miles plus with every inch having sweeping corners, small and large jumps humps bumps, banks, off angled corners, hair pins, ect. Great riding but very tiring on a trike to say the least. I am sorry I didn't get much for pictures but Fed and I raced in the same class. Someone is supposed to send me some pictures they took.
We started all in a wide line racing to the starting line. It was very dusty at the start and I just dropped back. I figured if there was a wreck and I couldn't see, I would kill someone with an Odyssey. By about a 3rd of the first lap, they started getting spread out enough that I could really see well enough and could start pushing it. There are several larger jumps that I had to slow down for(stock suspension). I picked off a couple of quads in the first 2 laps and I was taking out another quad on the 3rd lap and I had a problem. I power slid around another quad on a long sweeping corner and hit the jump still kinda sideways. I stayed semi sideways thru the air and it knocked the right rear spider track off the bead. I limped it almost back to the pits then it died. After I got it back to the pits, I checked no compression. The plug looked nice and chocolatey with aluminium sprinkles! LOL I am ASS-U-ME-ing it had built alot of heat and maybe I didn't burp it enough limping back. It also had a massive piston to wall gap and was due for a rebuild anyways. EGT temps looked fine (from what I watched while practicing and racing) but I don't remember the limping it back part. It sucks because the offcial said I was in 4th place already. Fed said the track was just too sticky or tacky to get the trike to power slide around but felt perfect in the Oddysey.
The owner said if I could come with 5 similar type machines, he would buy us 3 trophies for each race. Between Fed and me, we have 5 and i am sure there are more in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, ect. We can camp here too. No hook-ups but a great place to spend a weekend. He said I could bring out my kids with their gokarts and ride. Real nice people that run it. One guy has a Taz looking car with a GSXR750 and did very well.
Here is an assortment of pictures to go through!
Gary
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Topic: Flat track race near Denver on I-70 (Read 4111 times)