So now the news is out that Marc Coma is coming. My guess is he will be riding with Kurt and Ivan, Kurt is still hurting and sat out last weekends H&H, so this should help him out but I don't see it being enough. Kendall Norman will be riding solo on a CRF 450, but without the JCR Honda pits. As the races get longer I look for the pit work to make more difference on the outcome. If the KTM and Kawasaki are going to beat Colton, David and Timmy it will need to be in outright speed. So it looks like Quinn and Mike may have the speed, and Robby Bell has been on a hot streak lately. Both the KTM and Kawasaki teams have former JCR racers (Quinn with KTM and Steve Hengeveld with Kawasaki) but have the teams done the work to put the right people in the right places?

On a personal note- I will be touch and go on chat for this one. We will be racing at the So.Cal MC big 6 GP, and with half of my club going down to pit for JCR I will be pretty busy pitting Hilltoppers. This will be one of the first times my guys will have cell phone contact from the pits, so I should get a leader update shortly after 07:30 ish. One of our pits is Honda 2 so all the hard work will be done in time to get some photos of the Hummer flying by.
Update on the Hilltopper 2 stroke team- The boys got the fever after their finish in the 250 and are planning to run the SCORE series next season. They are using the rest of this year to prepare and execute the plan they have set in motion. The most important thing they learned at the 250 is that it is damned hard to find mixed gas if something happens with your pit plans. To solve this a CR 500 is being built, and we are looking for another for pre run and practice. This will allow for the use of the JCR Honda pit program. I will post some photos of the bike build up as it comes along.
I didn't get to hang out for the Indy/ MX chat Saturday because we went for a 130 mile ride through Joshua Tree National Park. We were too tired to do anything other than lift beer and stare at the Q-runs on tv, but let me know if you guys want to see a little go pro video.