ROUGH!!!!!!! I was dead last moto of the day (open am). was also moto 8, big difference for the 2.
General positive comments: Awesome facility, awesome layout, very fun track, good dirt, huge turnout, huge gates, bibs were cool, etc
In order of events, Saturday practice was SLOPPY in the morning. However, I think that was very necessary as the rest of the day the track was nice. Did not get a lot of track time which was kind of a bummer. Riding a new bike I needed all the time I could get, and I didn't get enough. I understand they did the grass race and the night cross, but I would have rather they ran practice longer than did any of that other stuff!!
The night cross looked kind of lame. Maybe fun for a pit bike or 80 riders, but I was very on the fence as to if I was going to race it or not, after spectating I'm glad I didn't. Fun to watch though, better than sitting there bored all night.
Registration was kind of weird, but kind of cool also with the touch screens and such. less room for error with that. It was open most all day saturday, so you had plenty of time to sort that out. I could imagine sunday morning being a little chaotic if you were just arriving sunday.
I don't think they put down nearly as much water for race day as they did for practice. The track got tore up pretty fast and they didn't seem to do much work to it inbetween. I also am not a big fan of watering during motos.. nothing like coming up to a section that 1 lap was dry and the next is icy. However It was definitely necessary and with that # of riders, they had to do what they could do speed things up. I heard a lot of cmments from people that the track was usually better and stuff. Last 2 motos were open pro and open am which both had pretty big gates, and after the start if you were mid pack you couldnt see a thing. launching the down hill into a bunch of ruts, nearly blind = dangerous.
My last moto got cut to 2 laps, kind of disappointing. Once it was like 6:00 and they still had 15 motos to go, they really started to speed things up. Had they kept that pace up all day they probably could have got all motos done earlier, and not cut laps like that. They had no choicie at that point though.
awards was ridiculous.torture to make us walk up that big hill after riding to go get our trophies lol. waited in line for about an hour, it got dark, went back down to get the prizes, waited for probably 30 min, somoene held my spot, i had time to actually go back and shower and come back to my spot in line, which didnt actually move more than a few feet. by that time it was like 9:30. glad i didnt plan on going home!!
monday they left the track open for practice. was told they were not going to prep. woke up late expecting to load up and leave and saw a watered and prepped track. hurried up and got gear on and did some riding before it got super hot out. i had way more fun and felt a lot more comfortable monday. finally got the rest of the jumps down nad stuff and felt decent on the new bike for the first time.
sorry for the rambling, but those are all my thoughts. sounds like im whining a lot but im really not. i understand the # of riders and conditions and all that. it is what it is. i had a really good time, love the track, will definitely be back at some point.