Flat
Track
Returns
to
Nodhem
Nevd& llot TroGk Tf Chompionship Scrier
Round 3:
Rdftlesnoke Raeewov
Racing
Fallon
FAU.ON,
NV MAY 20
f1n
May 20, the
Lahonran Auto RacinS Assocranon wel-
lt/comed
motorcycle and
quad
Ary
ra(ers
ba(k to lhe
Rat_
desnake
Raceway in Fallon,
Nevada, for roufld three of the
2006 Northern
Nevada Flat Track TT Championship
Series.
And box was it a
happy reunion! Since the
rainout of the April
22 flat-$ack
opener at Rattlesflake, riders
young
and old
from
all over nonhern Nevada
had been very antsy to
try out the
newly
renovated racetrack.
Since
the end of the 2005 stock-car reason.
the LARA, along
with track builder
Harold Lease, ha5 expanded
the stock-car
oval
to one-third ofa
mile and raised the bankin8 to 15 degrees.
Riders v,ialkin8 the $ack before
pracrice
seemed dwarfed
by
comers
rising to almost
40 feet above the infield.
''There's
enough room here at Rattlesnake
to have it all,"
said Lease, as he
pointed
out the main
features of a newly cut
TT course.
"Since
I race myseli I \./anted a course
layout
that
would be fun for skilled riders,
not
just
fast bikes.
Watch; with
all those corneG
and chicanes down
in the infield, I think
you'll
see a
lot more opportunities for the b€st
kind of racing
-
back_
and-fonh
passinE!
'
The LARA
also used its e"xperience with local
din to build a
gr€at
flat track, which
held up very well
for havint been .reated
from brand-new
materials. lt was
probably
the llrst time
mosl
riders
got a
good
tEste of what it
means to race on a trut tacky
surface. And
you
could see the
dillerences in results from the
heat races to
the main ev€nts, Eetween the
huge, banked
corners, the technical
infield, and the blue-8roovin8,
the
pits
were
