Archive for August, 2009
Marathon Weekend has, for more than a decade, served as a great opportunity to “pre-practice” for the upcoming NBL Grands. This year, with some fairly-extensive modifications to the third straight, many (423, to be exact) felt that the organized practice on Thursday and Friday of the Grands would not substitute for an actual race-day, race-speeds run through, and nearly three days of at-will trial and error passes. Thus, you had license plates in the Derby City parking lot from as far away as Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Iowa, and Michigan—as well as tons of closer-in states like Ohio,...
The marathon that is/was the 2009 NBL National season is in the final mile. Just one more pair of races, and everyone sprints to the finish line in Louisville over Labor Day Weekend. Akron is the “Big A” series final and, though not an Elite Series race, Saturday’s race turned out two racks of Elite Open, and one Rack of Elite Women. The gals were here to finish out their special part of the series, and receive their special HRP Series Number plates after their Sunday main. In Saturday’s racing, 109 motos, and a steamy, sunny August day, kept the...