Elsinore Grand Prix this weekend - Who's going?

[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.

[Eli]

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.


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[Sharp shooter]

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. 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.

[HolyMoly]

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. 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.

[HolyMoly]

Widowmaker.

[HolyMoly]

Mud on the bar mounted go pro. lol

[HolyMoly]

Nate passing in a corner on the MX track.

[HolyMoly]

Natedog

[Sharp shooter]

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.

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.

[HolyMoly]

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.