AFM 103 – Greg McCullough

I am my own harshest critic. At the end of every race weekend, I look back at what I did and ask myself “did I get everything out of myself and my bike”? Invariably, there’s a laundry list of things I could have done differently. In large part, race reports are a [...]

Another rider’s misfortune became my good fortune early in the race weekend. I’ve been trying to get on Ken Hill’s schedule for a 1-on-1 day of coaching for some time. At this Friday’s Z2 trackday, Ken’s student irreparably crashed his bike early in the day. I picked up the 2nd half of [...]

Shortly after Round 1, I attended a 3 hour classroom session with Ken Hill, where he reinforced a bunch of core concepts – approach to corners, utilizing brakes, and body position. It was a really good reminder of just how much the basics matter. I’d fallen out of the habit of thinking my [...]

“The fact that you’ve done a certain lap time does not mean you can do it again. You have to earn it every time”. I heard this from someone, I’ve passed it along to others, and I re-learned the lesson yet again at this race round. I ended last season with a best finish of [...]

The main objective for the weekend was breaking the two bad habits I seem to have developed: going way slower in practice than races and going slow out of the gate for the first couple of laps. The high end results I was looking for were 1:51 laptimes, and a podium finish in one [...]

I was reminded again this weekend of just how much our intensely individual sport is really all about the people we do it with.
Through the last 2 years, I’ve become good friends with Brian, Blaise, Dave, Jenn, Jason, Cassie, Jason and Ricky.  They’re the usual suspects when we pit together, and we constantly help each [...]

Thanks to being in my friend’s wedding on Saturday night down in the bay area, I wasn’t able to attend any of the practice for this weekend.  With the new pavement, tire and suspension setup from last round at thill was going to be largely out the window.  Oh well.  Gotta play with the cards [...]

I’ll be posting updates throughout the weekend via my iPhone. Stay
tuned. Should be some fun pix.

Unlike previous rounds, there was no Friday practice this time. Keigwins had a regular trackday, and it filled up before it occured to me to sign up. That left me with Saturday as the only day to make changes and practice. I’d made some changes since the last Infineon round, but I [...]

“If you’re not at race pace, you’re just wasting time” – Colin Edwards
I need to remind myself of this quote more often. While it’s not 100% true for a relatively new rider like me, who can learn a lot from slowing down and observing what’s going on… it’s still a good guideline for any [...]