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Its Sunday morning, …sweet! - I jumped outta bed, kissed my wife, pet my dog, grabbed a hat, my coffee and I was gone. Out the door, in my truck and headed to Cahuilla Creek in ten minutes flat.What a great day, cool crisp weather with the warm sun shining bright. The ground still a bit moist from rain earlier this week … today, is a perfect day for motocross racing! Ok, so even though I will only be a spectator, still can’t wait to get there and meet up with Mike and Frank. In fact, it seems many people had the same idea. As I pull in, I see that the pits and parking areas are well stocked with rigs, trucks, trailers and every bike made. All here to enjoy there day, the racing, there friends, … America!

I got the invite to check this race out, and was pleased I did. To add to the day, a buddy had told me Donn Maeda was racing today with the club Vet X Racing. (www.vetxracing.com) Donn is Chief Editor, and that is to say the man in charge at “Transworld Motocross” magazine. Ya, know … that’s gotta be one of the top five best jobs to have on the whole damn planet! Think about it, living in Motocross, … riding, the entire industry your playground, your job, and getting paid!

Anyway, I heard he could ride, and not to shabby at that. So seeing I read his magazine, page by page every month, and basically idolize him, damn straight I wanted to see him race. Even say “hey” if opportunity arose. It did, and I stopped and said hello, and of course got a picture! Courtesy of Frank, Throttle Junkie’s “numero uno” photographer! and always gets the shot …( check out the photo gallery here on TJ, its huge…)

The Cahuilla Creek Motocross Park is absolutely sweet. Nope, I’ve never been here before today. I must be one of only a few that ride allot, and have not been here, my bad! I’ve missed out, I’ll tell ya… This track has awesome racing conditions! It’s long and wide to start off. Being wide offers lots of passing and bar to bar racing potential … the dirt is a thing of beauty, with great traction. Thus making for some seriously fun riding. Fast turns combined with lots of elevation changes makes this track very sweet! This looks so damn fun. The elevation changes with semi long, and fairly steep up hills, gives way for huge down hill floaters with long airtimes! So if ya need to go big, … its here! However, on that same note. Going “big” is not required to throw down good lap times. The track is fast, no doubt about it … and with table jumps for the most part, elevation changes, changing lines due to track conditions as laps add up, … this is a Motocross track. Mike and I both look forward to racing here, and with Vet X.

Frank got a good deal of pictures ya can see in the gallery. As usual, Frank captured the essence of the track and how much fun the racing was with his photos. The event held a family atmosphere. Make no mistake though, they are here to race - lots of good reporting stuff. Anyway, I’m not sure what moto it was, I’m only a guest today, but I did get see my boy Donn Maeda throwing down. Donn, (aka: Swap) was running up front for the first three laps of this moto. He had second and third place on his rear tire, but looked comfortable to hold on to his lead till the checkers came out. But things happen … blowing completely thru a berm and into the deep soft fluff … ( kick’n up a nice cloud to boot) was the end result of coming into a turn to hot, from a fast and rough uphill section. Fish tailing his way out of the two feet deep fluff dirt, the #10 Yamaha was back racing. But not before giving it up to around sixth or seventh spot. He worked hard and pulled back into third. Heck, Donn was still making time on second and first positions, when time finally ran out and a very respectable third was retained.

All the great racing going down today was put on by Vet X Racing … this is a class act I must say. Craig runs a fantastic race program. That organization and riders being properly classed was outstanding. Check this out … Vet X runs ” transponders” Yup! each bike has one. No second-guessing who got what place, … just like in the pros. Crap, ya even get your lap times! … That’s so damn cool! ~

So check it out yourself at www.vetxracing.com get directions and track info 951.926.4646. - there the web page was down or moved. ) 926-4646

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