Super Motard

Mr. Nubbie would say one and one-half thumbs up!

Attended the AMA Super Motard races last night at the Music City Motorplex, a fancy name for the Nashville Speedway at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds.

The track configuration was quite a bit different from the lay-out that was used last year, and this time around they used quite a bit more of the NASCAR styled oval with the banking. It looked like the big four-strokes were able really stretch their legs. Around NASCAR turns one and two, where several of the guys would get the frame banged down onto the deck and just leave a trail of sparks all the way around while they grabbed three gears and did their best flat-track tuck. After dark the sparks were cool to see.

Jeff Ward is a racer. Period. A professional racer. The two rides he put in on his CR450F were a show in discipline, experience, and competitive determination, and included all manor of techniques of riding skills. Of course even the slowest guy out there could stomp a mud-hole in my ass, but guys like Ward and Kunzel and the absent Doug Herny are simply hotter than the front burner on your stove when the day of racing starts. They don't ease into their job of going fast, they're on it when they get out of the trailer. Ready to rock.

AMA website report is HERE.

What fun, and what a great crew to be at the races with.

Happy Sunday.
PWA

P.S.
Not even one medical personel were ustilzed during last nights races, and as our good friend MARTHA says, that's a good thing!