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WMRRA Motorcycle Races for 07/19/2015

I really did not spend much time taking pictures this day, preferring to hang out with Dave of SpeedDealer Motors.   The gallery of all the good and bad is here  

The full gallery of what I took is here:

http://mechanophelia.com/Races/Motorcycle_Races_20130428/

It’s probably no surprise that it rains a lot in the Seattle area (thanks twilight) but can you imagine racing in it? … ON A MOTORCYCLE? Queue the crazies of WMRRA: Washington Motorcycle Road Racing Association. This past Memorial Day weekend, die hard motorcycle lovers (and their girlfriends) toughed none stop pouring rain to witness the magic that is sport bike racing.

I feel that motorsports in general in the US is overshadowed by a lot, let alone club racing. These boarder line insane men and women (yes, women) mount their saddles to complete twisting tracks with at least 10 turns at 180 plus miles per hour! For what? Two words: Bragging rights. Yes, money can be earned and contingencies paid for top placers, but it is an expensive enough hobby where even the top plate holders complete the season (dare I say an entire career) in a deficit.

A typical weekend consists of practices the first half of the day followed by races broken up into classes that separate big engine bikes from little engines, vintage bikes, even sidecars and scooters! Camping, pit parties, shenanigans, whiskey and beer are squeezed somewhere in between. On long weekends, a real treat our race association has are endurance races ranging from two to six hours!

This picture shows snippets of what racing is like in the Pacific North West. Yes, that is intense rain hitting the asphalt not a pond; Yes, that is a muddy motorcycle from a crash (all is okay); And yes, that is beer in those Solo cups among pit parties. One picture is of our race team completing the originally scheduled 6 hour endurance race that was cut to 4 due to… well… rain.*Side note: feel free to message me if you are involved in club racing in another state, I would love to see what that’s about*.