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AFM Round 2, 2018 - Buttonwillow Raceway Race Report

The second AFM Round of 2018 was following closely on the heels of the previous round, with a short month in between. In that time, I had a grand total of one whole day on track, and that was it, but I was seeing progress even on that one day. I was looking forward to my next opportunity to keep building with this bike and improving from where we started the year. Since we had just been down here, I decided to drive down Friday morning to catch a couple afternoon sessions so I wouldn’t feel so pressured in practice. With the weather looking better, I figured my Saturday race was likely to run on Saturday, and I didn’t want to wear myself out for it. Friday went well, and I looked forward to continuing to move forward on Saturday. Practices went well enough, and I was dropping a little more time, going just over a second faster in practice than my best race times the round before. Yay for progress! We had the bike set up and ready to go, and the afternoon races kicked of