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YAMAHA SCR950 SUPER HOOLIGAN RACER P68 Feature slippery, hard pack surface— even if I wasn't. Despite its weight, you can be aggressive in your riding with the SCR and it'll just sit there and take it. There's a bucket load of torque, as you need to be gentle on the initial throttle not to break the back end loose and just spin everywhere, but as the after- noon wore on we started to get a feel for each other and make our way towards the front. I qualified in 19th out of 34, only 0.6 seconds off the pole but a mile away in reality. A cou- ple of heat races saw me take a third and two seconds, meaning I just missed out on qualifying for the A Main final. The B Main would have to do. Again. I wanted to win that one, badly, and I lined up on the pole for the first of what would be three—yes, three—race starts. I got the holeshot in the first start that lasted all of five seconds when half the grid collided with each other, bikes and bodies flying all over the place. The second start saw me slightly boxed in before some gentleman (still no idea of who it was), simply cut right across me and took my front wheel clean out, dumping me in the path of 10 oncoming bikes all weighing at least 450 pounds. I felt four solid hits, but the big one was the last as someone used my hip as a launch pad. Initially I thought I felt a crack, and my side hurt like all bloody hell. Cameron Brewer—the same Cameron who helped with the peg design—had picked up my bike as a souvenir, the right bar jammed onto the seat, and he dragged the SCR all the way down the back straight before kicking it off. It was a shit show par excellence. The pain subsided quickly and I was determined to finish the event, so I rushed to the SCR, eventually got it going again and took off at the start for another holeshot. The race was only two laps due to the number of re- starts, and I ran wide on the exit of turn two with a lap to go, ulti- mately finishing a close second. It was not ideal, and I felt like I'd been run over by a train, but there was no denying the SCR was a roaring hit with the crowd in what can only be described as a sensational event by the crew at Roland Sands Design. We were the only red team/ bike in a sea of black Harley- Davidsons, Indians and one yel- low Ducati Scrambler (that took the overall win thanks to Frankie Garcia), so we stood out like a sore thumb. The SCR was pretty bashed up after the crash, but this only gave us a bigger green light from Yamaha to throw some more bits on it! So, this won't be the last installment of the SCR project, as we plan on doing quite a lot more racing next year. Stay tuned. CN We had an awesome time at Bosla Chica with the SCR. It's amazing how much fun a 500-pound dirt tracker can be!