Minnesota

Hey everybody! This weekend I went to Minnesota to do a race at Spring Creek Mx Park. The last time I was there it was super rough. So I was kind of surprised when I rode there this weekend. It was still rough, but not that bad. I was hoping that it wouldn't rain there, but it ended up raining both nights before the riding days. That made it pretty muddy! But it dried up pretty well both times. Sunday morning, before the races, I thought it was actually pretty fun to ride in that mud! That was before I got myself all dirty from crashing, though. :P

All my races went pretty similarly. I was top 3 in the first turn in every start. So my starts were pretty good. :D But then I would get passed or I would fall. In the first race I fell on the first lap out of 1st place. When I got up I was in 10th. By the end of the race I almost caught up to 3rd place, but then fell again. So I got 5th. The next race I got passed early on quite a bit and finished in 6th. In my third race I finished 5th again. Nothing good. My last race was going pretty good for 3 laps. I was in 6th right behind a guy, but then I fell in a turn when I accidently went into a deep spot in a berm. I got up and finished 12th. :( So I got 4th overall in Open B and 9th overall in 250 B.

Now I'm back home and not really doing anything. But I do have something coming up. In a couple days I'm going to go to Georgia for a week or two to ride. I have a feeling it'll be really hot! But it should be cool.

I'll write about that later on when I'm there! Bye! -Greg

Baja Video

Baja Regional from lukas cobian on Vimeo.

Here's a sweet video made by Lukas Cobian. It has footage of some local guys racing the Baja Regional. Enjoy!

As for my adventures, this weekend I went riding at a track called Mount Carroll. The track was sweet and fun. I did a 30 minute moto once and did a couple laps at a time the rest of the time. I had two pretty funny crashes, too. :P

Happy late Father's Day to all the dads out there! We didn't do that many things for Father's Day. But that's ok. I got to see Toy Story 3, so that made everything good. :D If you get a chance, you definitely need to see that movie! It's great!

Also, I have been helping my dad paint a shop for Tom Zont Racing. That's been pretty fun, surprisingly.

That's all that has been going on with me lately. See ya! -Greg

Baja Regional

I'm just sitting in my room right now wondering about my weekend... If any of you follow the amateur circuit in the US, then you know Loretta Lynn's is one of the most prestigious races to do. Just qualifying for it is hard. Heck, even qualifying to the regional is difficult! Well I tried to get to Loretta Lynn's this past weekend and this is what happened...

We left late Thursday night after preparing and packing everything up for the weekend. It usually isn't a good idea to start a 6 hour drive at 10:30 at night, but my dad and I decided to do it anyway. My dad seemed like he was going to fall asleep at any moment and was doing really weird things to stay awake. We wanted to get to a rest area to sleep, but none seemed to come up anywhere! That was pretty scary. Once we did get to a rest area, we didn't even sleep. My dad decided to keep sleeping! But it was all ok in the morning when we arrived at the track.

Friday was just a day of practice, but a lot of it! I signed up for two classes so I got in 6 practice sessions. I found out two things that day: the track was going to be really rough that weekend and I was going to have a hard time. Great!

The next day, Saturday, was the day that racing started. My three classes were all split into two divisions. That meant that I had to get top 16 in each of those to qualify for the 2nd and 3rd motos. I got 15th in the first 450 B Mod moto, so I made it to the next ones. But I didn't get top 16 in my 250 B Stock and Mod classes. Uh oh! But it ended up going fine. My 250 B Mod last chance qualifier actually went really well. I got the holeshot and led for 2 out of 3 laps! I ended up getting passed and battling, which resulted in me getting 2nd. But that was still awesome!

My second last chance qualifier was 250 B Stock. I kind of wheelied off the start, so I didn't get the holeshot, but I was still up there. I think I got 3rd in that race. I forgot to mention, both lcq's only had 8 and 7 racers in them, so everyone qualified! A lot of us didn't really see a reason to race that, but we did anyway.

That night we went to a hotel that some of our friends were staying at to pay a visit to the pool and hot tub. That was good for sure. My dad and I just slept in our van in the parking lot. :P

The next morning our van had a dead battery, but we still got it started thanks to good old jumper cables! Whew! And then we were off for our last day at the Baja Acres Mid-East Regional. That was the coldest of the days we were there. I think it was in the mid-70's. It was cloudy all day, but we were pretty sure it wasn't going to rain. There was a chance of rain for all weekend. But barely any came!

That day, Sunday, my motos all went pretty similarly. I would have to start near the outside in every race, and then I would have to battle near the back of the pack. In one of my 250 classes I actually got taken out and ran over on the last lap. I'm pretty sure both of those things were accidents... at least the running me over part was!

The challenging track gave me a 22nd overall in 450 B Mod, 22nd overall in 250 B Mod, and 25th overall in 250 B Stock. Not that bad considering each class had as many as 60 guys in it in the beginning!

So I didn't qualify for Loretta Lynn's, but I think I got some good experience racing with all those super fast guys. That's why Loretta Lynn's is so big...

I guess there's always next year! :D