AMA Pro Supersport at Infineon: Tuesday, May 4th
Got to work at Munroe, opened up the Pro Supersport entry list for Infineon on the AMA website, and there I was in all my glory with my friends and sponsors listed, nice as you like. Some of the sponsors I noted hadn’t actually done anything for me yet …but I figured if I was going to ask for help, it would be good karma to assume a positive result and thank them in advance.
I had requested the race number 58 on my entry because it was the year I was born, and also ‘cos I figured Marco Simoncelli for good company, but they gave me number 30 – which was my alternative choice to honor Pat ‘cos his AFM number is 31.
I called up our friend and racer Zoe Rem, who is currently racing Pat’s 848 in the AFM races, and I went over to her house about 5pm to pick up the bike. I got it back to the shop, and took some photos of the bike to commemorate the start of the mechanical adventure. The bike had gotten crashed in practice at the last AFM round at Infineon, and there was some clean-up work to do judging by the scrapes and bruises evident. Once again, I was blessed to receive the commitment from our super-tech Todd Chamberlin to get the thing sorted and get me to the races. We peeled the bodywork off, made a list of jobs to do, and went home for the night.
Maestro Todd about to pillage the loaner Ducati 848… Nick’s 999S is behind
