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<\/a><\/p>\nWe went to Venice Beach and got a chance to hang out with Pearson Knight.
\nThere was an awesome skatepark that we were able to check out and of
\ncourse the ocean !!!<\/p>\n
Then, Mason and I did some training at the Redbull Performance training facility with When we finally arrived at Laguna we went straight to the hotel and The bike and I were feeling better and better every time I After the chaos of the first lap was over, I found myself in a little battle It was a fun weekend with a lot of good learning experience as racing Kaleb De Keyrel #51<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our trip started off with a long 34 hour journey to California. Before we headed to Laguna Seca Raceway, we stopped at Tagger Designs shop to see where he creates all of his awesome helmet designs. It was great to … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n
\nAaron Colton. We got a chance to do some pretty unique and fun
\nworkouts that were very challenging. It seemed like you were not
\nworking out, even though “WE WERE”. <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\ngot a good nights rest and got ready for the next big day. We got all
\nset up and went through tech. After that, we were then able to ride to
\nZuma around the track to get an idea of the track layout. This would
\nbe my first time at Laguna, so I would have to learn this difficult track quick.
\nFriday morning, I went out for practice and I ended up 24th. We made some
\nchanges to the bike and went out for Qualifying 1. I went faster and
\nqualified 21st. I would have Qualifying 2 Saturday to try and improve
\nmy time, but this track is difficult to learn and I felt one step
\nbehind. I contacted Penske suspension and explained to them what the
\nbike was doing in certain areas and what we needed to make the bike
\nhandle better. Then they looked at my track map and made some changes
\nfor Q2. <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwent on the track, but it just felt like I was still missing something
\nthat was holding my times back. I ended up 26th in Qualifying 2. I got
\nfaster, but everybody else did as well. I went through my track map
\nwith Roger Hayden and Jake Lewis that night, because I knew I still
\nwas missing something. I sorted all of that out. We made some more
\nchanges to the bike for Sunday mornings warm-up. I went out for
\nmorning warm-up and had the things I was doing wrong in the back of my
\nmind. I just made adjustments Jake and Roger told me to make and ended
\nup 12th in warm-up and did a 1:29.9 almost a second faster than what I
\nqualified with. I now knew that I found what I was missing. I was
\nconfident and ready to go for the race. I knew it was going to be a
\nchallenge starting from 26th, but I just went out and got a pretty
\ngood start. I passed as many people as I could in the first lap.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwith Jason Aguilar. I knew we had to just put our heads down and work
\ntogether to catch the huge group in front of us. The group in front
\nwas 9th all the way through 17th. I just kept slowly gaining on them
\nand making up time. I just charged ahead to catch them. I ended up
\nrunning a 1:28.8 pushing hard and to run with them. Little after
\nhalfway, I finally caught the group in front of me. I worked my way
\npast Bryce Prince and Stefano Mesa. Shortly after, I found myself
\nright behind Kyle Wyman. After putting in all the hard work to catch
\nthe group, I ended up getting a little too greedy. I pushed it too
\nhard in the last corner and ended up going in the grass a little bit.
\nThat incident killed my drive for the front straight. I ended up about
\nsix bike lengths behind the group again. I worked my way back up to
\nthe group, but had to finish 17th.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nagainst all the faster riders in the Daytona Sportbike class. I was
\nreally happy to get down to a 1:28.8 lap time. We now have a great set
\nup for the next year when we come back to Laguna and I’m actually in
\nDaytona Sport bike racing for a championship! That was the whole
\nreason of even going to Laguna this weekend to learn a new track and
\ngain valuable experience for next year. I have to give a huge thank
\nyou to all my sponsors and the De Keyrel Racing team for working hard
\nthis weekend and getting my bike performing awesome! Can’t wait till
\nMid Ohio!<\/p>\n