I had my first track day yesterday (September 4th) at Autobahn Race Track in Joliet, IL. It was so much fun!
The day started off very wet since it rained all night and early morning, but the Sun came out before noon and started drying things out so conditions where great for the rest of the day.
A lot of people went down, 2 people from my Novice group and camp went down, and a guy on a new R6 hurt himself quite badly. I almost had a fall myself going in too hot into a corner, so I stood the bike up and did a bit of landscaping, but the bike didn’t go down (phew). I was trying to chase an R1 in the straight and didn’t brake early enough. That kind of sucked since I couldn’t find my line for the next few laps, but started getting back into the grove of things before the end of the day.
I burned quite a bit of rubber and got very close to dragging knee but was freaked out by how much I was leaning off the bike. Then again, this is my first year of riding and first track day too, either way it was so much fun I will do a few track days again before the end of the year.
(I'll post pictures up as soon as I get them)
The day started off very wet since it rained all night and early morning, but the Sun came out before noon and started drying things out so conditions where great for the rest of the day.
A lot of people went down, 2 people from my Novice group and camp went down, and a guy on a new R6 hurt himself quite badly. I almost had a fall myself going in too hot into a corner, so I stood the bike up and did a bit of landscaping, but the bike didn’t go down (phew). I was trying to chase an R1 in the straight and didn’t brake early enough. That kind of sucked since I couldn’t find my line for the next few laps, but started getting back into the grove of things before the end of the day.
I burned quite a bit of rubber and got very close to dragging knee but was freaked out by how much I was leaning off the bike. Then again, this is my first year of riding and first track day too, either way it was so much fun I will do a few track days again before the end of the year.
(I'll post pictures up as soon as I get them)