i was there at the race, and it was my first national, it was cool to see just how fast they go, you see it on tv and you don't realize they're FLYING! but besides that, the racing was good, it wasn't as hot as everybody was expecting. One thing i noticed though was that whether it was a privateer or a factory guy, that their bikes were popping and backfiring the entire day, now i'm no mechanic but i know that a perfectly tuned machine will not pop like that, you'd think that with how much money the bikes cost to build that they could build one that wouldn't pop and sound like complete shit. I scoured the pits in search of 2 strokes but there were none, i'm really amazed at the privateers, because some have bikes that cost 20+ grand and they dont qualify, and all i see if they're wasting money when they could be doing the same thing and who knows maybe qualify faster on a 125 or 250 2 stroke than they would on the 250f's, whenever the slowest practice was out there it seems like they were fighting the bikes more than the track
