A whole gaggle of pics from my pocono east race

[pillaka]

On this weekend, 1 year ago, I entered my first gp moto cup race with TPM at pocono east. Back then I could run consistent 1:13's at pocono, I ran a 1:11 every once and a while but never consistently. I always passed guys in blue group, I thought I was gonna win! Up to and including the race I got a good dosage of what fast guys can do. I remember Antal Halaz (the 2005 gp moto champion, currently 2nd in points now) passed me in the morning, damn I thought, that guy is fast, I couldn't hang with him! Then there was the race I managed to get 6th overall and 5th in my class. I remember zsolt veres won that race, he was running 1:09's. All I thought after the race was how the hell is it even possible to go that fast on pocono east? Later that day my f4i water pump blew and it was to be my last trackday in '05.

So here I am 1 year later, coming off a 1st place overall at beaver 2 weeks prior, and a 2nd overall finish, 1st in class at VIR a few days earlier. I felt pretty confident driving to pocono sunday morning, and looking foward to racing with some fast tpm regulars.