We had a great weekend of racing at Mosport, lap times aren't known yet as the offical score keeper left on vacation after his last race! I was happy to win both heat races Saturday so was starting both finals on the pole.
I choose tall gearing for the long uphill Mosport back straight so rarely get off the line well, but took over the lead in T4 of the first final and won that P3 light race. I figure I hit 135mph at the end of the straight and it's uphill all the way.
In the P2 middleweight race I managed a second place behind a very well prepared RD400 ridden by a great young guy from Wisconsin. This RD makes the same power as my 550 but is 80lbs lighter so squirts off the corners better. We're dead even on the straight until the very end of it where he gains a bit of an advantage.
In this class there are ten 750's that line up ahead of the middleweights but start together. At the start I blew 2nd gear (twice
and two mids get by, the guy in white leathers on the RD, Scott on another CB550. The camera lens gets covered in two-stroke oil so at the end looks like we're racing in a brush fire and isn't very clear.
Here's a link to the vid, it should read Aug. 19 instead of 18th. Sorry the sound is crap.
I left the sighting lap there to show the track & scenery! There are constant elevation changes.
Some 750 action forward & back but at the end of the race there is one CB750, a big Trident, a Norton and the RD400 ahead of me.
8:32, I pass into 1st place.
9:14, the CB750 passes (he had to start from pit row and I think he just hung out with us all for his pleasure, he's much faster than everyone out there)
I was slowed into the hairpin and lost my drive, then blew another shift @ 11:18 and the RD blew past for good.
9:32, first lapped rider.
15:33 last lap flag.
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