This Past Weekend

This past weekend was the Texas State Championship race in De Soto, TX. 

LoneStar BMX was open Saturday night for practice only as many of the racers would be out-of-town for the finals.  Cory said that there were a ton of new riders out on Saturday with 5 signing up for the ABA and a bunch more just coming to see what it’s all about.  Cory asked a few how they heard about the track and it was thanks to fliers being handed out at one of the local schools. 

Saturday in De Soto was a long day as was Sunday.  My kids did pretty good over the weekend.  Zoie got a 2nd both days with a girl she beat on Saturday taking the win on Sunday.  Brody was the opposite, he didn’t make the main on Saturday. Then Sunday beat the kids that were in the main the day before, taking a Fourth to some really fast guys in the 10 Expert class.

The Pro race was crazy.  I only know that Denzel Stein (Redline) won it from gate 8 and Tim Kneip (AtomLab) took 8th.  Tim had a gnarly gate, power wheeling all the way past the 30 foot line, only to get swallowed by the pack when the wheel touched down.  Denzel looked like he was toying with the others easily winning the main.

KJ Remero made the main both the Pro/am on Saturday and Pro Sunday.  I am not sure how he finished either day, I bring him up because of this video of him and Tyler.

Cowtown State Qualifier

Another Sunday spent getting up and hitting the road by 6 am.  This time it was taking I35 north to Ft. Worth and Cowtown BMX.  The drive up was a short 4 hours long and ended after Google maps got us to the right place, after 3 attempts.  We were close for about 10 minutes, just not there.

The track was in great shape.  The race was a little smaller than the other Qualifiers so far this year, about 58 motos.  There were people from all over the state.  I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinairy happen that hasn’t happened at other tracks or their races.  A great race experiance in my book.  One thing I’ve noticed with going North of CapCity BMX this year; the weather is colder there.  About 20 degrees cooler than San Antonio.

Allen and Shawna have a fun, long track.  Brody and most of the kids were having a blast jumping all over the place.  After the race, a ton of kids rode for about an hour, non-stop.  The tracks jumps weren’t too big, just the right size to be fun for all.  It is long.  Not sure how long, but it felt much longer than LoneStar and maybe about even with Armadilo.  But it was fun, so don’t take what I’ve said as a complaint.

Brody and Zoie got 3rd and 2nd.  Both had great first straights.  Brody was jumping and looking realy good through out the track.

The Pro race was a little light on attendance.  Five Pros came out to play, most notibly missing from this one was the Points leader TNT Tim Kneip.  He’s gotten himself a job and well that got priority this weekend.  Cody Hungerford of Sun Bru stepped up in Tim’s absence and took the first from Chad Street on Pahntom/On-track/Intense.  I forgot the other two guys names, I got 5th.

My non-scientific and going off the top of my head placing for the Pro Texas State race has Tim Kneip in 1st with Cody Hungerford stepping into 2nd and Dennison Smith in 3rd.

Conroe Pro Race

Sunday morning I got up at before the sun at 3:30.  Why?  To make the drive out to Conroe, TX for their State Championship Qualifier.  I stopped and grabbed David and Andrew Larabee on my way out-of-town.  The David made for good conversation and helped me wake-up as we drove. 

The track was in good shape and was a lot of fun to ride and race on.  Loooonng is the only thing that really sticks out.  Well that and someone was plugged into the same outlet as the Gate controller and ever time they’d do something the gate would drop or start to and pop up.  Not something that you want to have happen when your trying to get your SNAP on.  Once that plug was pulled it was smooth sailing from where I was sitting.  If something else went wrong, I didn’t see it.  And the weather was perfect.

The Pro Race was won by A Pro Tim Kneip the leader of the ASC/Apache team, Vet Pro Andres Holguin took 2nd.  LoneStar BMX local Jordan Johnson took a tumble in the rhythm section and broke his collarbone in his Pro debut.  I took 7th after getting passed in the rhythm section as Jordan fell.  Not too bad since we had two racks of 5.

It was great to get to ride and race at this one.  I had a really good time and after getting to ride a bit more at my track I am starting to feel more confident in my riding.