Sunday, September 30, 2007
Napalm Racing ready to go back to the track
It has been over a year since we went as support for our son, Nathan as he raced dirt bikes in motocross. Two weeks from now we are planning to go to a local race. For the first time, he will be riding a Honda 450 four-stroke. He will not be riding in the pro class since it has been some time since...
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
I tried out my race car today
The engine screamed at 20,000 rpm in a cloud of nitro-methane smoke, all four tires spewed dirt everywhere and it launched off the jump with great gusto! Then I hit the ramp crooked and rolled it over. Nothing was broken and the engine didn’t even die, so I just punched it and promptly did a 360...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Langston takes Outdoor Championship
Grant Langston aboard his number 8 Yamaha YZ450F raced into the record books as the first blue mounted rider since 1998 to take an AMA Outdoor title. This year saw James Stewart’s bid to become the next dominate rider after Ricky Carmichael fall short as he suffered injuries that forced him to sit...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
A day at the races
Formula One engulfed in scandal. NASCAR chasing it’s tail. I tuned in to see if Lewis Hamilton would take another win, but alas, it seems the Williams team was involved in some spying. So his parent team was stripped of it’s constructor’s points and fined a whopping $100 mil. Now that’s a fine that...
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Saturday, September 1, 2007
Writer becomes a doer
I am now a RC car racer. I won a Jammin' CRT.5 mini truggy at a raffle. Now I have to get all the ancilliary stuff to go with it before I can launch it off of a jump for my official entry into ballet on dirt as a participant. Now, when we go to the races with my son, I can sweat the race order,...
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Sunday, August 5, 2007
Ballet on Dirt photos
Once again we found ourselves trackside at the Extreme Motorsports complex in Airway Heights west of Spokane Washington, taking in the sights, sounds and smells of Supercross. This time, NAPALM Racing was there in a spectator capacity due to lack of a bike and lack of insurance coverage. The event...
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Moto photo
The art of ballet on dirt involves a lot of airtime. This photo demonstrates the trick of perspective, by lowering the point of view of the camera, height can be “added” to the picture. One can do this by lying on the ground, not the greatest idea where the possibility of getting hit by an errant...
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Sunday, May 6, 2007
What happens in Vegas - revealed
The AMA, Amp’d Mobile Supercross series final round in Las Vegas, Nevada brought surprises and confirmed predictions. In the Lites class East-West shootout, mechanical failure brought the biggest surprise of all. East champion Ben Townley and West champion Ryan Villopoto fell victims to mechanical...
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Stewart Rules
Just call him King James. The final two races saw him victorious as Chad Reed finished second in Detroit and out of the top three in Seattle after a first lap crash that forced him to move from last place to his eventual finish in sixth place, enough to bring second in the points, but a...
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
NASCAR and the car of tomorrow
Bristol motor speedway saw the introduction to racing and the trial by fire of the much ballyhooed “Car of Tomorrow” or COT as insiders call it. What is it? Well, the top of the car or “greenhouse” has been made taller and wider to give more room inside for the driver. They also moved the driver...
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