Ok, so since people have jokes and stories about me, I should tell one of mine.
Back in December of 2009 I think it was, myself, my wife, Moto_Joe, Dilly, Toejam, and a few others went to JenningsGP in Florida for a weekend at the track. We arrived Thursday night, and we were gonna ride Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Friday, people start arriving for the weekend, and a brand new tractor trailer pulls in all decked out with race logos and chrome and all sorts of bling factor. The team opens the back of the truck, and pulls a Ducati Desmosedici off the back. So naturally people start to gather around it, looking at it, admiring it, and drooling over it. The owner is a little cocky, and is bragging to people about how much he paid for it, how much HP it has, how much it weighs, etc...
So Saturday morning we are all getting ready to go out of track, and all we hear is this guy revving the piss out of this Desmo. It is annoying as fuck, and is getting people in the pits pretty pissed. A few sessions in, temps have warmed up, and we are all out there running around in the low 1:20's, and we see the guy get suited up, and head towards hot pit on the Desmo. We are all pretty stoked to see that thing on track, and no sooner does he get out of the pits and onto hot pit, he fucking highsides the $70,000 Ducati! Didn't even make it out on the track. Highsided the shit out of that bike before even turning a lap!
So he brings the bike back to the trailer, and pulls out a different Duc, and takes that out onto the track. I guess he had spares in the truck, because they managed to fix the Desmo, and he took it out again, although this time he actually made it onto the track and starts turning laps.
So I follow him around for a bit on my old Kawi ZX-6R race bike, and when I realized what a squid he was, I made it a point to pass him every chance I got, lap him as many times as I could, and outdrive his 200hp bike on my 98hp bike.
Just goes to show that a fancy bike, trailer, team, etc... doesn't mean anything if you don't have the skill to utilize it.
Oh, and just so you don't think I am bragging about my skills, I did a weekend at JenningsGP once with PJ Jacobsen, who now races WSS, and tried to follow him for a lap. By the time I hit T5, he was already by T10. There is always someone faster, even on lesser equipment.
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