Oak Hill - Mike Sanchez secures New track Record 1:22.5

In the final race of the day, Michael Sanchez blew the doors off of the previous track record by setting not one but TWO laps below the previous fast lap of John Haner of 1:23.22 in September of 2000.
Mike settled into the B Superbike Race on the Shogun Motorsports GSXR-750 with the full intent of beating the lap record and did so. On the 3rd lap he pushed the mark to about a half a second below the previous record. On the next lap he hit his groove with the official track record being set at 1:22.565 using AMB electronic scoring. Nearly 7/10ths of a second faster than the previous record.
Congratulations Mike. I think "Pops" Sanchez put it best when he said "It's a team effort, and the CMRA is all part of our team."

OMG, that is hauling... Can't even imagine.

Way to go Mike

Mike and Gabe that's the big time baby, It all about the show :-) Really Guys great job to the whole Sanchez crew!!!!

Mike has earned his success. He and his dedicated family are at some track virtually every weekend getting more practice. I have never known anyone who is more acutely focused on becoming a pro-level rider than Michael Sanchez. Hopefully his performance will get the national attention it deserves.
Brooks

Perhaps we need to get this news to RRW? That's an amazing lap time, anyone have good enough math skills to determine the avg. speed?

(length of track in miles) / (Lap time in seconds) * (seconds per minute) * (minutes per hour) = avg miles per hour

1.8 / 82.565 * 60 * 60 = 78.4836 miles per hour

ET 11:10.76
AVG speed 81.58 MPH
Fast Lap 1:22.565 *Track Record*
Margin of Victory 31.04 sec

and I have no math skills- I just stole the official results off the board. :-)

Shan will make sure that the publications get the news.
Brooks

I guess the heat made the track grow an extra 374.9596 feet longer? [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif[/img]

I thought Oak Hill was 1.8 miles long. According to the numbers Joe posted it is a 1.871015 mile track. [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif[/img]

I thought it was 1.7, but I'm math challenged.