East Coast Racer, hoping to move west

[gfaherty3]

Hello, I am living in NYC, hoping to be able to move to seattle sometime in the next year (hopefully sooner rather than later) so in preparation for my move was checking out potential racing. I currently race CCS NE (Loudon, NH).

Question, I am racing a Ducati ss900, there are several CCS/LRRS classses that this bike is competitive in but looking through the rule book for WMRRA it looks like I might not have that many classes to run in. I am only in my second year of racing so I don't have the skills to overcome huge HP disadvantages-yet.

Thanks,
Greg
CCS #287

PS If anyone knows of a company looking for a marketing guy, drop me a line!
hoping to see you all at the race track soon.

[FISHGUY]

Try Safeco and Costco for the job...Good luck

[gfaherty3]

Thanks for the well wishes.

[FISHGUY]

No problem, you may want to look at Starbucks as well....

Later Eric

[timk]

There are a few classes where the ss900 can run, but you're right in that it's not really podium-competitive in any of them. The best fit is Middleweight GP Twins, and the step-up classes from there are Formula Thunder and Open GP Twins.

In each of those classes there will be a few bikes which will stomp the ss900, but there are also stock SV650's in each of those classes because a lot of WMRRA's SV guys like to run 4 or 5 classes. So while your bike is unlikely to run up front, you would at least have some similarly-powered bikes to dice with.

I'm guessing that because you call it an ss900 rather than a 900ss, it is a newer model. If I'm wrong in that assumption and it is an early 90's model, it is also legal for Heavyweight Early GP. I have run a '94 900SS in that class before.

Cheers,
-tim