Tigre goes to AMA: Volunteer info and race progress here!

[duqette]

YES!!!! Woooooooooooooooowoooooo!   

[Kaveh]

booya!

[Juan]

Way to go Mr. Metz..   

[gojira]

Kewl! 

[Hollywood]

Congrats Steve! 

Excellent work Tigerbike race team! 

How long does qualifying go on for? They have been at it for over an hour!

[Fast Elvis]

Well done. You looked very professional out there.

                                                          FE

[smducman]

Congrat !  tigre what a nice punch back with number  .

Cheers.

[desmoquattro]

Steve made it!

I had the honor of running the Tigrebike pitboard for practice & qualifying today. Steve really threw down in practice, turning several laps in the 1:45 range. Things were a bit slower in group B qualifying, but Steve still made the cut. He'll be racing tomorrow!

The Tigrebike crew was in good form today: duckwrench13 dealt with some critical last-minute issues, Warren spent a lot of time wrenching and helping out, along with DanTheMan (and his pops!) Enzo, johnc, and several others who stopped by.

We'll be cooking breakfast (with espresso drinks & coffee!) tomorrow morning, so come early. And bring sunblock, shorts, and a hat!

[Vindingo]

congrats Steve!!!

I cant wait for tomorrow        [moto]

[desmoquattro]

http://www.amaproracing.com/prorace/raceres/rr/cres.asp?cls=fe&snct=p8225&type=q&year=2008

26   170   1:45.956   75.428   Pete Demas   Triumph Daytona 675         1:45.956
27   944   1:45.996   75.399   Steve Metz   Ducati 749R         1:45.996
28   161   1:46.048   75.362   Sahar Zvik   Suzuki GSX-R600         1:46.048
29   181   1:47.881   74.082   Craig Mason   Yamaha YZF-R6         1:47.881

[tigre]

[moto]

Hey folks!  Thanks for all the well-wishing and good vibes.  It paid off!

Lots of drama.  I promise a full write-up at the end of all this.  Here's the scoop with qualifying:

Wind picked up DRAMATICALLY from earlier practice.  The combination of the additional wind and not timing my any of qualifying laps so that I could "get a tow" from the faster guys, I was pretty much just out running by myself.  I went out for one set of laps, and came it.  I was a bit disappointed by  my laptimes -- I'd slowed considerably since the earlier practice.  Then I went back out for a few more laps and when I got held up by a slow guy, I came back in.  Now there were under 20 minutes left and I still hadn't hit the qualifying mark.  I was getting really nervous because the wind had really changed things up (braking 2 cones later for some turns, 1 turn earlier for others) and I knew I hadn't figured it out.

I went back out and made very conscious decisions to alter my brake markers to adjust for the wind and that turned out to be enough.

I saw my pit board and was pretty sure I read 1:45.9, but was a little worried that I had misread, so I stayed out for another lap.  When I came in, they told me the good news.  I sat still for a few minutes and then went back out for another couple laps.

The cool-down lap after I crossed start-finish was a lot of fun.  The corner workers were all clapping and waving.  The guy in turn 7 was an AFM guy I recognized, and when I came by he pointed to the AFM patch on his shirt and gave me a thumbs up.  As I let that soak in, that was about the closest I've come to tears of joy.

Anyway, I got back to the pits and then got down to business.   

See you folks tomorrow!

Tigre

[ghostrider]

BRILLIANT 

enjoy the race tomorrow, sorry i won't be there to cheer you on. i could only get enough time to go on sunday.
best of luck and have fun in your first PRO race.

[mostrobelle]

This is too cool.  Giggigity, giggity. 

Enzo and I will probably be coming up early in the morning via cage, given the nature of our "unusual cargo."  (P.S. Tigre, the costume store guys plan on trying to catch the races on t.v.  They say "Good Luck!" and they want pictures...  )

OK folks....hope to see y'all out there!   





Perhaps someone will be so kind as to correct me if I'm wrong, but I hear practice is around 10 and racing is around 4.  I'll update first post as more accurate information comes in...

[desmoquattro]

Perhaps someone will be so kind as to correct me if I'm wrong, but I hear practice is around 10 and racing is around 4.  I'll update first post as more accurate information comes in...

Schedule:
http://www.infineonraceway.com/schedule/major_events/ama/

Warm up is 10:50-11:05
Race is at 4:25

[Desmostro]

Congrats Mr Tigre AMA racer! 

See you in a bit.