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Here are your Round 7 Sunoco Series winners. The event was held at Pymatuning. Next up Amherst on Sept 5th! See you there!!
Kyle Vidovich
Tanner Stine
Cody Blenman
Scottie Vechery
Zach Gill
Brandon Thompson
Chase Tharp
Dave Janu
Kole Repine
Jordan Ringer
Round 6 of the Sunoco Series was a mud fest at Area 330. We apologize that the Sunoco Series were not handed out at the event but rest assured, the certificates are in the mail to the following riders:
Austin Johnson
Brendon Hood
Lorenzo Lynch
Dave Mares
Bryan Bellinger
Chris Mc Kinney
James Shadley
Nic Parrish
Matt Freedson
Konnor Sirow
Next up - Sunoco Series at Pymatuning August 14th Good Luck!!
Round 5 of the Sunoco Series was held at Lightning Raceway on Sunday July 4th Congrats to the following winners of Sunoco Fuel. Our next Sunoco event is slated for July 25th at Area 330. Be sure to sign up to get your share of the over 500 gallons of free race fuel
Ryan Owens
Kaylynn Kotler
Rick Crawford
Lorraine Rutter
Jack DeLucca
Brad Kokowski Sr
AJ Sams
Craig Orshoski
Chad Gillentine
Brandon Chadderton
Round 4 of the Sunoco Series was held at OIRon Sunday June 20th Congrats to the following winners of Sunoco Fuel and be sure to sign up at our next Sunoco Race Series at Lightning Raceway on July 4th to get your share of the over 500 gallons of free race fuel
Josh Barber
Steve Chesnik
Kyle Christiansen
Ken Frank
Thomas Jasen
Dalton Kirby
Mike Kozma
Steve Robison
Isabella Sanzone
Round 3 of the Sunoco Series was held at TV Land on Sunday May 30th Congrats to the following winners of Sunoco Fuel and be sure to sign up at our next Sunoco Race Series at Ohio International on June 20th to get your share of the over 500 gallons of free race fuel
Nick Parrish
Matt Fusco
Jared Brumfield
Chuck Nicholson
Bryce Adams
Bill Croner
Cyler Bertram
Justin Ford
Shane Smallwood
Connor Nikses
Our second Sunoco Series was held on May 9th at Big Game. Be sure to sign up for the next Sunoco Fuel Giveaway at TV Land on May 30th
Our Big Game Winners:
Nicole Zipay
Marcus Marcellus
Patrick Ganoe
Kaylynn Kotler
Craig Orshoski
Jon Ren
Jeff Barley
Dakota Reed
Duxstin Dickson
Richie Kolcun
Here is this months riding tips from Gary Semics
Clutch in or out while braking
The rule of the track here is to leave the clutch out while braking so the engine helps slow you down and helps control the braking process. It’s kind of like anti lock brakes. The best stopping power is just before the rear wheel locks up and that’s just what leaving the clutch out will help you with. This is done when you’re still carrying some speed into the corner. If it’s a tight corner where you’re going to be slowing down to a slow speed in the middle of the corner and/or if you’re going to do a brake slide than you have to pull the clutch in so you don’t kill the engine.
I’ve seen this technique of leaving the clutch out while braking misused and abused by a lot of beginner riders. Every time they apply the back brake they put the clutch in. They do this because they don’t have good braking control and by stabbing the rear brake on they would stall the engine. Sometimes making it stall even easier by being in too high of a gear.
It’s really the same technique for 2 strokes and 4 strokes. It’s also the same when exiting a corner with 2 or 4 strokes. The 2 stroke does depend on the clutch more than the 4 stroke but if you’re pulling a high gear out of the corner even the torquey 4 strokes can use a little help from the clutch when exiting the corner.
A good rider can make his bike drift slide into a corner real pretty like by leaving that low end lever out (the clutch). When a rider pulls the clutch in while braking at speed he’s taking a chance of locking up the rear wheel and sliding out too much, then his automatic reaction is to let up on the rear brake too. This causes the bike to straiten up and then he hits the rear brake again and so on and so on. This is especially the case on a high speed slippery approach to a corner. Learn to feather those controls or lock them up and every thing between. It takes a fine feel to go fast.
My All About Cornering DVD has all the important braking and cornering techniques. You can see free previews of all my Technique DVD and everything is 50 and 60% off right now at www.garysemics.com If you want to learn how to get the most out of your practice come to one of my 2 Day Motocross School classes this summer. Get 50.00 off and a free DVD of your choice. Register at http://www.gsmxs.com/schedule.htm
Work hard and ride smart,
Gary Semics
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