"I built me a trailer queen" as I spoke to some admirers this past weekend in the paddock for the CCS/ASRA Nationals at Summit Point in West Virginia. They looked at me like I'm crazy, well maybe I am but I built it to race-not sit in a museum, well at least not until it's earned that right as other great machines have that have come before the ThunderDuc.
So let's see, gridding up Saturday in the expert Thunderbike final was my most intimidatin race moment yet in my short career. To my front was Nate Kern on the #1 Morton's BMW, to my right was #123 Dave Estok on the Deeley HD Buell, and then there's me..on the #165 Martinmoto Ducati......sweet! So I actually finish the race in 10th out of 22(21 finished, the 1 crash happened in front of me and almost took me out entering T1 on the brakes!) so my FIRST TOP 10 as an expert!!!! Sunday I then followed that up with a solid 9th (of 20) in the Lightweight Gran Prix expert sprint. A great weekend overall and some supporters there too.
A shout out to Jeff Grube and Bill Smith for riding their Triumph's down almost 4 hours each way..just to watch the 1 saturday race and deal with the 90+ degree heat all day-THANKS GUYS!!! And thanks for wearing the ThunderDuc shirts!!! Also special thanks needs to go to Mike DiAntonio and his son Mike, for trekking down from Wildwood, Nj. to shoot pics of me all weekend as we push this envelope further with the marketing opportunities, sponsors, and friends met all around..the pics speak for themselves. And there's always more at http://www.thunderduc.com/ if you need a fix.
This week's news is RevIt! clothing is shooting their 2008 catalog at Pocono Raceway. RevIt! is a premier clothing company for motorcyclists that we sell at Martin Motorsports, as well as outfitting me for this 2007 season as seen in the pic above-the best gear PERIOD! So what you may ask? They borrowed my bike for the shoot. My bike. Ever had that happen to you? How about after building a race bike and then racing it? Me neither until this week......WOW!!!! Some good stuff happening up there today, when the phone rang and Wil from RevIt! asks, " Hey Chris, everyone loves this bike of yours, it may even make the cover." "Is it or would it be okay if our professional driver does a burnout on the front straightaway checkers for a shot..they really think it will look great?"
I'll thank them for the new tires next time......
