Tamara and I flew out to Jacksonville for an extended weekend with Hollifield. He lives in Gainesville, and Jacksonville is the closest airport. We landed on Friday afternoon and got everything together that night. We left first thing Saturday morning for Jennings. It is about an hour and a half away from Gainesville.
For this trip to the track, we purchased the new GoPro Hero Wide for some testing. We are now dealers of the GoPro products and would like to begin to promote business at events like this. We shot about 2 hours worth of track time, and even sold one video to a guy that had a good battle with me. He out powered me in the straights, but I held stronger lines and corner speeds to keep up! I also had a good chase with Hollifield during the next session. He stayed behind me for quite a while, then he finally out braked me into turn 13. I was able to play chase though and kept up with him the rest of the session. YouTube doesn’t like me posting these videos due to length, so once I can find the best way to get them online, then I will put them up.
The weekend was mostly a success. Late in the track day on Sunday, the CBR600RR began to act up and would not run properly. Hollifield had to drop out of the last two sessions. The GSXR600 started out strong on Saturday morning, but by early Sunday it had the throttle issues again. I had no top-end acceleration whatsoever. It was still a great time. We had planned to ride Monday, but were too tired (as were the bikes) to do so. That gave us Monday to fool around with the bikes. We cleaned out the gas tank on the GSXR600, and tried to fiddle with the CBR600RR, but no luck.
Tuesday, we took our time to get up and out as our flight wasn’t until the afternoon. We ate lunch at Bojangles’ which is a treat for all three of us as there is no Bojangles’ in Gainesville or Albuquerque.
All photos here: http://www.tonyfugere.com/gallery/v/trips/2008/jennings_10-2008
My parents came out Thursday night. They had a real tight connection between Atlanta and Albuquerque and barely made it themselves. Their checked luggage did not make it. So, we had to wait for the first Friday flight from Atlanta to bring the bags. This was nice, because we got to take them to Frontier to experience one of Albuquerque’s best restaurants. We also got to have a nice leisurely start to our weekend on Friday morning. We got the bags early Friday afternoon, and headed out at around 4:45pm.
