{"id":79,"date":"2011-06-20T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dekeyrelracing.com\/news\/?p=79"},"modified":"2011-06-20T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T21:23:08","slug":"june-cra-race-weekend-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dekeyrelracing.com\/news\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"June CRA Race Weekend Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weekend started with\u00a0the 125 motor\u00a0that was\u00a0guaranteed to be to De\u00a0Keyrel Racing on Tuesday being delivered\u00a0on Thursday, 2 hours before\u00a0leaving for\u00a0Brainerd International raceway. Doug (\u00a0Kaleb’s Dad ) went to work and installed the motor and was able to get two heat cycles on it before loading it in. It was going to be a great weekend. It had looked like\u00a0Kaleb was only going to have one bike for the weekend but now he would have both bikes. They arrived at the track at 10 pm on\u00a0Thursday night and set up for the weekend.\u00a0Kaleb and Mason were excited to show off their new helmet sponsor HJC.<\/p>\n

Friday was practice all day. The goals were to get the 125 broke in and set the bikes up for the weekend.\u00a0Kaleb would also be testing a 1996\u00a0TZ 250 of Brian Okabo’s.\u00a0Kaleb\u00a0road\u00a0the\u00a0MORIWAKI MD 250 in the slow practice and\u00a0the HONDA RS 125 in medium practice.\u00a0The weather was perfect for practice on Friday, sunny and 75 degrees. The\u00a0MORIWAKI was set up and running great.\u00a0Kaleb worked in the morning on breaking the RS 125 in. After lunch De\u00a0Keyrel Racing started to dial the 125 in for the race weekend. The jetting seemed to be off and the bike was not running correctly.\u00a0Kaleb said the throttle response was poor and the bike kept shutting off and he would have to bump start it again on the track. Doug\u00a0checked all the electrical connections to make sure they were tight and everything looked good.\u00a0Kaleb said the bike was still cutting out. Doug\u00a0decided to have Brian\u00a0Okabo take the bike out for a session to see what he thought it was. Brian did not even hit the track with it and said it was too fat on mid range. We made some jetting changes and\u00a0Kaleb went back out. The bike made two more laps and\u00a0seized up. Doug tore the bike apart and found bad\u00a0destination on the piston and later learned that there was an air leak in the cylinder head and reed cage. Brian ended up crashing the\u00a0TZ 250 that\u00a0Kaleb was going to test so that was out for the day\u00a0too. They put the 125 aside and focused on the MORIWAKI.<\/p>\n

Saturday was a full day for\u00a0Kaleb with 5 sprint races.\u00a0 Practice went smooth and now it was time for racing.\u00a0Kaleb started out the day with 2\u00a0seconds and was riding great. The\u00a0light weight classes were going to be tough with the races being on the famous\u00a0BIR long track. There is\u00a0a lot of wide open section with the drag strip and then all the way into turn three. The bigger HP bikes\u00a0definitely had an advantage.
\n\"Mason<\/a>At lunch the\u00a0CRA has\u00a0 “try the track” where anyone with a driver’s license can take 4 laps around the track\u00a0at a\u00a0controlled pace. Doug heard the\u00a0announcement for this and\u00a0decided to see if they would allow Mason to participate. The\u00a0officials said yes. Mason suited up and was out on the\u00a0BIR track for the first time. It was great to see Mason getting track time at a\u00a0CRA event. Mason road the “try the track” both days and had a blast.<\/p>\n

Saturday the last race of the day was an invite only race, The\u00a0Framsted Cup. They take the fastest 2 racers from each class, use their best lap time, than start them all so they cross the finish line at the same time. The slowest racer starts first, then a gap by time. Then the next and next until the fastest racer goes off the start. The first racer had already done a lap before the fastest guy left the start.\u00a0Kaleb was invited to run\u00a0this race and started 7th. \u00a0It was a fun race to watch and\u00a0Kaleb did great with a 4th place finish. Saturday\u2019s\u00a0races went late ending at 6:30 with the\u00a0Framsted Cup. Church was scheduled for 7:00pm. Doug packed\u00a0everything away for the night and Heather,\u00a0Kaleb and Mason headed to church. Doug\u00a0hung out with Levi as he was sick with the flu.<\/p>\n

After church another racer offered to buy us all dinner at Zorbas. Zorbas was a sponsor of theirs and they allowed them to bring racers to eat and then\u00a0Zorbas would pick up the bill.\u00a0\u00a0Heather stayed at the track with Levi and Doug,\u00a0Kaleb and Mason went to dinner with the group. Great food.<\/p>\n

\"Kaleb<\/a>Sunday was another full day for\u00a0Kaleb with 5 sprints again. The weather was perfect again with sunny skies and 68 degrees. Brian still wanted to see\u00a0Kaleb on the TZ\u00a0250 so he let him test his 2000\u00a0TZ 250 in practice.\u00a0Kaleb looked great on the bike for his first time on it. Sunday started out even better for\u00a0Kaleb than\u00a0Saturday by bettering his first two races with wins in both classes. The third race of the day was\u00a0light weight superbike.\u00a0Kaleb knew he would have to push hard in the turns if he was going to have a chance against the bigger HP bikes.\u00a0Kaleb got a great jump and was running near the front. With 1 lap to go Kaleb did not come around. It was radioed in that 2 riders had gone down in turn 8.\u00a0Kaleb was loaded into the ambulance and transported to the onsite medical center. When they opened the doors of the\u00a0ambulance to move\u00a0Kaleb into the medical center\u00a0Kaleb hollered to his dad. “Dad I am fine. Get me out of here”.\u00a0Kaleb was released to his Dad and mom with a sore hip. The other rider was ok too. We learned later that the other rider saw Rossi try this move on Stoner in a corner. Rossi lost the front too and took out Stoner. When the\u00a0bike came back on the crash truck it was apparent that the weekend\u2019s racing was over. Doug went to work cleaning the bike and started to load everything up. It was a great weekend. The new HJC helmet did its job, Cortech leathers held up awesome, weather was great, met some new racers, got a couple of young fan\u2019s pictures on the bikes and Mason got 8 laps in. The family was together for the weekend and everyone was safe.<\/p>\n

Results:<\/p>\n

Race\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sat.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sun.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Framsted Cup\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4th
\nUltra light Sportsman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2nd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 1st
\nUltra light Superbike\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2nd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1st
\nUltra light GP\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2nd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DNS
\nLight weight GP\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 7th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DNS
\nLight weight Superbike\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 DNF<\/p>\n

Here is a link to more pictures of the weekend: http:\/\/www.momentumphoto.net\/events\/cra\/2011\/june\/251\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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