Novice Lightweight SuperSport 11th place
Novice Lightweight SuperBike 6th place

The weather was great but my clutch decided to go on permanent vacation after 2nd practice Saturday. It had been slipping a bit the weekend before. I had been trying to get clutch plates from Steve at Rising Sun Cycles but Japan was on holiday for a week (really, the whole country). Under advice from the more experienced guys I took the dry clutch plates out, cleaned & sanded them in between 1st & 2nd practice. Just got it back together in time when my 2nd practice started, so, threw the leathers on & jumped on the bike & got out for 4 or 5 laps. The clutch was still slipping little & when I got back to the garage I looked down at the bike & I was missing my body work. For a split second I was like......what? Oops, in my haste I forgot to put it on.

I decided to try the race on Saturday LWSS-NV, but the clutch would just spin when the power valves opened. So after 3 laps just tried to ride it shifting up just as the PV's kicked in & use the rest of the race as practice.

Here's my silver lining, I caught up to 2 riders who where in LWSM (I got a really bad start) & finally got past one, so I did have someone to race with. I placed 12th out of 18 in class & 19th over all out of 30. Not great but considering?

I have my new clutch plates, here's looking at next week.