I know I'm way behind here in updates, but that makes my life easier cause most of you know what's going on anyway... So we'll keep it simple.
PIR May 30th and 31st.
My awesome idol Peter Lenz went into to turn one with no brakes and wound up the bionic boy, putting a rough edge on the weekend. I was having run riding though and was doing alright in my first race. Until I made a silly mistake and got a little greedy on the gas while leaned over way too much. Out came the rear and there I was sliding across the track and into the dirt... no big deal... until the lapper I had just passed found no where else to ride but over me. So I wound up incapacitated at the Lenz's house for a few days where I was very well taken care of.
After a couple weeks I was ready, in spirit at least, for the first Thunderhill race of the year. By the end of Friday practice I was back to last year's race pace and feeling like I was riding at a turtle's pace, so that seemed promising. However, over the course of the weekend, I did not improve as I was planning to. I really feel like I'm at a bit of a stand still and need some one on one coaching to let me step to the next level. Hopefully I'll figure out a way to make it to the California Superbike School, but they're not back at Infineon for months, which makes me sad. You can read all about the rest of my AFM weekend here: http://www.roadracerx.com/news/rem-omrra-pir-race-report/.
After the weekend wound down and I was thinking about how frustrating it is to still have to start so far back on the grid because of the beginning of the season's mishaps, I got dealt another hard hand. A nice little letter from the AFM warning me to calm down on the track because other riders have complained about me "passing too aggresively". I have yet to respond, but I'm making time to do that this week because the letter left me crestfallen and confused. I race motorcycles. How is there any way in the world for that to be not aggressive? I'm unclear what is aggresive passing and what is not aggressive passing, adn by whose definition? Furthermore, I don't know why aggressive passing (in my understanding of how the AFM sees it) is wrong. If I don't come into contact with anyone and I don't cause them to fall down, go off track or even almost fall down, I don't understand how that still falls under "too aggresive", but it must because I have a letter saying so. I am going to respond to the AFM and ask them to explain this to me, so that I know what to do and how to ride without getting into trouble, because it is very upsetting to me to think that other races think I'm not in control or not being as safe as possible (keep in mind, racing motorcycles is not safe, we just ride as safe as we are able to).
Hopefully I'll have such good news next montht that I won't be able to contain myself and you'll hear from me soon. In the mean time, starts "following" me, so that it looks like I have more than two friends!
