Elsinore Grand Prix this weekend - Who's going?

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11-09-2014, 03:33 PM
Eli

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Originally Posted by HolyMoly

We did the hotlap at 7:30 and that was my son's best run! Only ran 2 laps, but he wasn't the last in his class. He had a crash on lap 1 and then got caught in traffic on the widowmaker and had to make a 2nd pass. Got semi-stuck on the soft sand headed back for the finish line. Another crash in the exact same spot on lap 2. But pulled it together and passed a few people. Course was really great. The soft stuff is only bad for the smaller wheel guys and if you go too slow. The natural terrain MX stuff by the chevy dealer was really nice. The course was a lot of fun. Widowmaker was actually quite easy..they had watered it. People just needed to pick a good line thru the corner at the bottom.

Sorry I couldn't make it, it was a rough (not good kind) night...waking up at 5 am would've been impossible.

Sent from my Bat Cave
11-09-2014, 07:03 PM
Sharp shooter

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Originally Posted by HolyMoly

We did the hotlap at 7:30 and that was my son's best run! Only ran 2 laps, but he wasn't the last in his class. He had a crash on lap 1 and then got caught in traffic on the widowmaker and had to make a 2nd pass. Got semi-stuck on the soft sand headed back for the finish line. Another crash in the exact same spot on lap 2. But pulled it together and passed a few people. Course was really great. The soft stuff is only bad for the smaller wheel guys and if you go too slow. The natural terrain MX stuff by the chevy dealer was really nice. The course was a lot of fun. Widowmaker was actually quite easy..they had watered it. People just needed to pick a good line thru the corner at the bottom.

The first thing that comes to mind is how these little guys can get up that hill. It wasn't easy when I climbed it. :shock: but it wasn't watered either.

Was there a mud jump this year? How about some gopro video?

I'm looking forward to the pics.
11-10-2014, 10:05 AM
HolyMoly

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Originally Posted by Sharp shooter

The first thing that comes to mind is how these little guys can get up that hill. It wasn't easy when I climbed it. :shock: but it wasn't watered either.

Was there a mud jump this year? How about some gopro video?

I'm looking forward to the pics.

It was great on the pre-run ride....he rode thru a group of bikes all waiting their turn to go up the hill...he rides right thru them and zips right up the hill. On the first lap of his race, he hit it in the wrong gear, plus some guy was stuck getting turned around with safety people helping him and he kind of panicked and stopped....had to give it a second shot.

I had 3 gopros running, but the one on his helmet kept falling forward. Gave kind of an interesting view and it was looking down thru the vent in his visor. I can probably blend those into a bigger video. I had one on my bars that the clutch cable kept grabbing and pulling it down and ended up with a view of my front fender, plus got some mud flung on it. The one on my helmet faired the best. I'm working to cut it all together and will post it up soon.

The mud jump was there. We saw someone try to ride thru the mud puddle in the pre-run and it ate him up! Nice mud bath at 7:30 AM.
11-10-2014, 03:29 PM
HolyMoly

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Widowmaker.

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11-10-2014, 03:32 PM
HolyMoly

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Mud on the bar mounted go pro. lol

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11-10-2014, 03:34 PM
HolyMoly

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Nate passing in a corner on the MX track.

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11-10-2014, 03:41 PM
HolyMoly

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11-10-2014, 04:12 PM
76Bonneville

We were watching the father and son going around the track.
Didn't realize it was you.
Very cool, looks like he had a great time.
11-10-2014, 06:06 PM
HolyMoly

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Originally Posted by 76Bonneville

We were watching the father and son going around the track.
Didn't realize it was you.
Very cool, looks like he had a great time.

Was it that obvious?

He really enjoyed it. And was stoked when he passed several people on the 2nd lap including an adult.

He wants to race next year and camp down there. I don't know about camping there, the parking lot looked rough in the morning with beer bottles and trash every where.
11-10-2014, 07:17 PM
HolyMoly

Some gopro action. Widowmaker. Tried to get fancy switching between his helmet camera and mine in the first video. Second video is just his.

http://youtu.be/oS7hDXF03lU

http://youtu.be/Sxq_jMl4Vuk
11-10-2014, 09:43 PM
Sharp shooter

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Originally Posted by HolyMoly

We did the hotlap at 7:30 and that was my son's best run! Only ran 2 laps, but he wasn't the last in his class. He had a crash on lap 1 and then got caught in traffic on the widowmaker and had to make a 2nd pass. Got semi-stuck on the soft sand headed back for the finish line. Another crash in the exact same spot on lap 2. But pulled it together and passed a few people. Course was really great. The soft stuff is only bad for the smaller wheel guys and if you go too slow. The natural terrain MX stuff by the chevy dealer was really nice. The course was a lot of fun. Widowmaker was actually quite easy..they had watered it. People just needed to pick a good line thru the corner at the bottom.

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Originally Posted by HolyMoly

We are in Race 10 on Sunday that starts at 8:15 AM. My son is racing the 105-200cc Beginner Class, and I'm in the Beginner Open. -

So help me out here. Did you guys enter in race 10 or just do the 7:30 pre run? They used to call that the unclassified race. Widowmaker is steep! It was dry and rocky when I did it and the ridge was so dusty it was like riding in fog. lol

I'd like to see the entire course if you have the motivation to post it.
11-10-2014, 11:09 PM
HolyMoly

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Originally Posted by Sharp shooter

So help me out here. Did you guys enter in race 10 or just do the 7:30 pre run? They used to call that the unclassified race. Widowmaker is steep! It was dry and rocky when I did it and the ridge was so dusty it was like riding in fog. lol

I'd like to see the entire course if you have the motivation to post it.

We did both. They had a 1-2 lap pre run called thunder laps on Sunday. They did post the times of the 4 fastest. But there was like 80 people. That was at 7:30 am. Then at 8:15, race 10 started...And we ran that too.

There was an unclassified race on Saturday morning and that is used as a pre run. It was nice to have a pre run on Sunday morning too as we weren't there on Saturday.

I will post the whole course with minimal editing....maybe even speed it up as it is fairly boring at 20 minutes per lap.
11-10-2014, 11:30 PM
Sharp shooter

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Originally Posted by HolyMoly

We did both. They had a 1-2 lap pre run called thunder laps on Sunday. They did post the times of the 4 fastest. But there was like 80 people. That was at 7:30 am. Then at 8:15, race 10 started...And we ran that too.

There was an unclassified race on Saturday morning and that is used as a pre run. It was nice to have a pre run on Sunday morning too as we weren't there on Saturday.

I will post the whole course with minimal editing....maybe even speed it up as it is fairly boring at 20 minutes per lap.

How about a full length and condensed version. :D

Did you both finish?
11-10-2014, 11:42 PM
HolyMoly

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Originally Posted by Sharp shooter

How about a full length and condensed version. :D

Did you both finish?

Maybe...I just downloaded widows movie maker today. There will be plenty of full length videos popping up as we found about 20 from last year.

We only finished 2 laps while most did 3.
11-10-2014, 11:48 PM
Sharp shooter

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Originally Posted by HolyMoly

Maybe...I just downloaded widows movie maker today. There will be plenty of full length videos popping up as we found about 20 from last year.

We only finished 2 laps while most did 3.

I ran the 2nd and 3rd laps with numb hands. lol

Cool on the vids, I'd like to see them. :thumbup:
11-11-2014, 09:25 AM
HolyMoly

I found this video this morning...thunder hot lap pre run.

Hotlap Day 2 Lake Elsinore Grand Prix 2014 wr250r…: http://youtu.be/gieULnyI9rE
11-11-2014, 09:27 AM
HolyMoly

Here is another... LEGP 2014, Race #2: http://youtu.be/YgC6ziUxSdE

They are popping up today.
11-11-2014, 09:56 PM
Sharp shooter

That dusty ridge is sketchy! lol

Let me know when you guys roll milestone again and I'll try and join you. :cool
11-20-2014, 10:52 PM
HolyMoly

I haven't edited any more material yet. But, did pick up this for my 12 year old.

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...bdd03e8697.jpg
11-24-2014, 11:58 AM
HolyMoly

Got the videos up.

Lap 1: http://youtu.be/DL7DjNAs2lk

Lap2: http://youtu.be/3quDVCJ3Rf0

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