Our VRRA vintage festival was last weekend. This is a big place. Thursday & Friday we were into the 40's on the humidex, Saturday morning was foggy with rain forecast. It was so foggy at the south end of the track the corner marshalls were unable to see each other so we were on hold. After an early lunch we got through a complete practice session before the skies opened with really heavy rain. The day was called. Sunday unfolded well with a great day of racing.
Here is a video from a rider in my P3Light bumpup class. I don't know the rider but seems he's on a R75?. He's well off the pace but I thought his lap timing gadgets are cool plus it gives a pretty good idea of the track. It still doesn't give an accurate view of elevation changes but worth a look.
I finished second to Scotty McKenzie in the Masters class and we didn't get much of a chance to wow the crowd, huh Scott? In the above P3L class I led for a while but Chris Spargo got past for the win, another 2nd.
In our actual P2M class we started behind the P2 Heavy's, with an older third class of British bikes behind us. There really should have been a second wave for the middleweights as the start was insane.
I chose to be cool and take a little time getting clear, but there were some crazy #$%* happening in the first half lap, worst I have ever seen! Tim Voyer ( with balls of steel) squeezed through on a good inside move in the middle of all this and I don't remember where I was able to catch him up. Poor Tim retired with a flat rear tire.
This is the first year for Spargo at Mosport, I've followed his exploits though and it seems like he's been on a tear in AHMRA for a few years. His bike is a missile, 260lbs and 80HP. He told me this engine was brand new and the bike is faster than it's ever been. He didn't, but someone else told me the engine was built by some F1 guy in the UK. Good for him because the thing really goes. On the back straight at the speed he went past, reminded me of a really good early TZ.
Good motor.
That said (and not to be immodest) I was able to pass him everywhere else. It was fun, he'd show me a wheel but I could keep him at bay. Two laps to go I rode past on the outside of T1 and put me head down, & clicked off a couple really good laps, felt great, right on the edge. Into the back end of the track in T5 I slipped into neutral for a second, ran it into the rev limiter on 5c, then missed that shift right at the worst place.
SOB 
It gave him the whole straight to get away. He was obviously following but I know I could have held him off until further up the straight and then got him back in the chicane. As it was I pulled alongside (outside) in T8 but he had the line and if I pursued the pass would have had to force him wide in T9 and felt like an #$%*, so I let up and followed him home in 2nd. He's a good guy, obviously a good rider. We got past all the Heavyweight except Jeff Peters on his Rickman CB750 and Mark Hekkles on the Gianinni CR750. I never even saw those guys with the chaos of the start.
Tyler worked through lots of jetting issues with his FCR's on Thursday during practice and finally found happy land. He rode the wheels off that FZR against all bigger bikes. He snagged a solid 3rd in one race and was .005 seconds out of 4th in another. This was against a young CSBK Pro rider (who's been sponsored to ride in VRRA P4) who he's become good friends with. They swapped positions all race then squirted out of T10 side by side and elbowed each other all the way to the finish line!. They laughed about that all day. The other kid says he never gets close racing like that in Superbike and it was the most he'd ever enjoyed a race. I know under his breath Tyler would have loved to finish ahead....that would have been 2 for 2 against a pro.
All in all I had a ball, the bike ran great. I came to within a second of my best time there but rode as well as I could have, very satisfying. Three 2nd's... nothing to sneeze at for an old guy!
Next race in a little over three weeks.
The Gianinni CR750
Gunther's chain drive R65 BMW at speed
L'il Blue on the prowl.
Cool down lap. (thinking phew, it's finally over!!)
Dave Crussell on his TZ750
