Austin and I arrived last night after the track closed,so we went straight to the hotel. Austin was itching to go to the opening of the District 9 movie,so we had a late dinner and saw the movie. I thought the trailer was much better than the actual movie, but Austin loved it.
This morning we headed to the track and caught the first Superbike race.
Today's highlights:
- The women who are dating, married to, or otherwise attached to motorcycle riders are crazy hot. Guys like us attract the hottest women. In fact, the only types of guys that do better than us as a group are rich guys, really good looking guys, funny guys, and guys in positions of power.
- Attendance looked down this year as well as the number of vendors.
- I went to the 'Arai Guy' who has been at every race I have ever attended, but they did not have the Hopper Monster helmet for me to look at. This turned out to be my good fortune as you will see later.
- Saw the new Nicky Hayden Ducati 848 replica. True fans will remember that Nicky ran this paint scheme at Laguna this year. Eye Candy doean't begin to describe this bike. I was very impressed that Ducati is selling this bike for only $500 more than the standard model. It looked to be worth it, because you got more than a paint job as this version comes with some Superbike spec internals, i.e. internal aluminum cam chain.
- Talked to Earl Hayden again and we had a discussion about the MotoGP Brno qualifying. Earl said that he had already seen the qualifying and didn't want to ruin it for me. I told him that I would prefer to tell everybody that I heard the results from him. So, according to Earl, Nicky qualified 8th. Mika Kallio is stepping into the other factory bike in Stoner's absence. This is important because Nicky and Mika are auditioning for the second factory bike next year. Mika has been ahead of Nicky on both practice session so far, but it seems that Nicky pipped him in the Q session after Mika crashed. A little race within the race to keep an eye on.
- Stopped at a small local cycle shop's booth and saw that they had the Arai Hopper Monster helmet in my size for a very nice price. I asked to see the helmet and they dropped a hundred off the helmet on the spot. I ended up getting last year's model for almost half the price of a 2010 model. Makes no difference to me as I will gladly take the older version with the savings.
- If we believe him, this is Mat Mladin's last race weekend, so it was good to see him on the track again. He was soundly beaten by Josh Hayes, but I am betting that he was points racing today and will let it all hang out tomorrow now that he has clinched the title.
- It's times like this that I wish I had a better camera.
- During the stunt show, I caught a T-Shirt from the air cannon. This marks the second item I have won from the Stunt Show. In 2007, I caught a hat thrown into the crowd.
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