AMA National High Point
Last weekend it was finally time to go to High Point and do my first National. After all the training and preparation the last couple weeks I was really looking forward to go there and do good. Unfortunately it turned out to be one of my worst weekends on a motorcycle ever. I got up saturday morning and felt under the weather. I went out in my first practice and felt horrible. I just wasn´t able to go fast. For the second practice we made some changes to my forks but it didn´t change much. I wasn´t feeling good at all and rode way under my abilitys. It was a really dissapointing weekend. I was riding good in practice the last couple weeks and my lap times were good and I was feeling good but saturday at High Point my wheels came completly off. I was really down on myself for underperforming the way I did. It´s my job to do good at the races because you don´t get paid to ride fast on a local practice track on wednesday afternoon. Well after a couple days I made my mind up. There are only two options I can wether pack my bags and fly back home and quit or I just continue to train hard and try to turn things arround this summer. I decided to go ahead and turn things arround. Theres only one way right now and thats forward. I will try to keep a positive attitude towards racing for the rest of the year and I´m sure good things will happen.
I won´t do the National in Red Bud in 2 weeks. I would like to do the Southwick National in August because it´s a sand race and I allways do good in the sand so I will try to get a budget to go there. I got a deal with Offcamber Yamaha racing to do the John Penton GNCC in 3 weeks. I´m really excited about that. I will race a 250 Yamaha in the XC2 class. I have never done a GNCC but I would like to do more Offroad racing in the future so it´s a good step in to the Offroad scene. It´s going to be tough to do a 3 hour race in the summer heat but I will be prepared and ready come July 10th.
I also want to thank my buddy Julian. He´s flying back to the motherland tomorrow. He helped me out a lot the last 8 weeks and we had some good races and a lot of fun together. He´s taking his new KTM home and will go for NMX glory this summer so I´m looking forward to see him doing work out there.
Thanks everyone for the support
Dan# 530
