Pacific Northwest Racing 2010

[paddyfitz]

Here's a spread from the last month or so...
Starting w/ a few from April 11th - race 1 from the cup series outside Seattle:











And here's some from last weekend's local series in Portland April 25th:































And My lady was filming some from the stands (I found these hilarious):




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And I found the grass at some point:


;D ;D

[vesparep1]

dame i live at no 16, ;D so go no 16 love the racing ,well done son ;D maybe a match for our tony? ;D ;D?

[Wayne Miller]

Some great pics and videos there, keep them coming.

Who's that riding number 44 ? ;D

[scooteristforever]

nice one paddy, cool looking snaps....
2nd one down is very arty

nice to see a varitronic flywheel peeping through the cowling ;D
sad to see the jagermeister logos gone...

No 12 polish piotr ... very good too... big right hander and the exhaust muffler is on the floor

ooh by the way.... i wish you fellas over there put the date the right way around... 11th april 2010 is 11 04 10 to us..... ;D ;D
4/11/10 is 4th november 2010 i thought the summer had been and gone without us knowing..
good luck for a good race season mate... Col

[paddyfitz]

A few more from the weekend:

[madmax]

Yeah, cool pics and vids Paddy.

[paddyfitz]

Vesparep1 - Thanks! - I do sincerely doubt being any kind of match for the Hornet, though...

Wayne - #44 would be my very good friend Mike (not sure if he's on this forum thing, but I know he lurks)

Col - Yeah, the bike had to get a little bit of a facelift after last year. Funny thing about getting sponsors - they like to have pictures. Turns out 'Powered by Satan' & 'Jagermeister' didn't fit the profile they were hoping for... ;D ;D
If it affords me doing more on the track, I'm okay with that. ;D

Many thanks for the words of support.
More to come as the season progresses.

[tony]

Looking good Paddy.. like the bike too!

[scooteristforever]

great snaps paddy... keep them coming....

left knee down on the rumble strip ( cool as f**k) ;D ;D

[paddyfitz]

So... we (the local race community) got invited to do a lunchtime exhibition race on the local full size track during the now yearly AHRMA(American Historical Racing Motorcycles Association) event.
The track is Portland International Raceway.
The event was a bit of a test.
The weather was... typical of Oregon in spring - meaning a little bipolar.
While the route they chose for us was not all that interesting (5 turns), we still had a good time.
Mind you - this is the first time they've let us on this track in a competitive capacity of any kind (ever) & we had 10 minutes to practice.
At the end of the day, the facilitators said they loved it & they want us back for next year in a larger capacity...
Well, yeah. Me too!
From my lady's camera... again. ;D





















































Enjoy!
;D ;D

[paddyfitz]

Aaand some more...

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There's more if you feel like fishing around a bit.
Lots of cool vintage racers that weekend.

[paddyfitz]

;D

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