Kershaw, South Carolina Nov. 2000

For the last race of the season Dave and I hauled our stuff down to middle-o-no where south carolina to race with CCS at Carolina motorsports park. I borrowed an inclosed trailer from another racer friend of mine (Keith) and drove down to Hickory, NC on Thursday to meet Dave where he'd been working for the week. We stayed the night, then headed to Kershaw early Friday morning for the practice day. My dad even showed up to hang out with us that weekend.

At the end of the regular 2000 season I had Speedwerks do a complete overhaul on my bike. I took nearly three bikes to them and asked them to build the best of all the parts. In addition, I got some extra go-fast parts and a flashy paint job.

Here's the front straight.

Here I am zipping through the carousel.

But Carolina ended in tragedy. One of the improvements made to the bike caused the throttle to stick going into a turn. Without having much time to think, I ran it straight off the track into the sand. Not sure how fast I was going, but it had to be at least 45mph. They actually rolled the ambulance for me on this one, though I didn't need it. When I first tried to get up, I fell back down because of pain in my tailbone. That caused them to send the ambulance. It was only the initial shock of the crash, I turned out okay. Here I am pushing my bike onto the crash truck after the race.