Happy Thanksgiving from Just-Us Racing!

A BIG Happy Thanksgiving goes out to all of you from all of us here at Just-Us Racing!

Hope you all have a Great day with family and friends, we will be back soon with more announcements for 2015!

Cheers!

Welcome to our newest sponsor!

We would like to give a warm welcome to our newest sponsor Spectro Oils!

BIG Thank You goes out to Ken Ciocci for helping to get us on board for 2015, we look forward to working with you next season for all of our chemical needs!

Check out their line of oils and chemicals that they have to offer, Adam has been using their oils for almost 20 years now and we are very stoked to work along side them next season.

www.spectro-oils.com

Cheers!

Looking for 2015 Sponsors!

It is that time of year again, holidays are upon us, good food and friends will come together, and then the year is over... Seems to happen like that every year! So before it gets too late in the season it is time to write up a quick resume and try to get some more sponsors for the next race season!

BIG Thanks to Bell Helmets, 406 Racing/Michelin, Racing Unlimited, & Vickery Motorsports for continuing their support of Project Supertwin to the Manx and Just-Us Racing!

2015 is gearing up to be a very fun year with the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb being the BIG race of the year but I will also be flying over to the Isle of Man to help my buddy Alan race at the Manx GP on the Mountain Course! We are going over this season to get our feet wet, figure out how everything works, and try to find a bike and team for me to race in 2016. 

I am putting together some sponsorship packages that we will be looking to get filled here by the end of the year, if you know of any companies out there that is looking for some advertising in the motorsports world look me up. My contact info is below:

Adam Bauer MRA Expert #65
justusracing@gmail.com
612-237-5348

Cheers!

Let's go race at Brainerd they said... Part 2

So I got a practice session in before the rain hit and then decided to go play in the rain on DOT's to get a little more used to the track since it is way wider than it used to be when I was here last. The video I posted shows just how damn slippery that front straight away is when it rains, it is like ice and we only have inches to be on where we won't slide out! Any throttle and your on the friggen ground.

Rachel and my bikes tucked away for the evening.

David can't stop playing with himself... Errr, I mean the bike... Leif looks like he may have had a few too... ;)

Evening fell and the guys arrived at the track with the trailer all fixed and got a few laps of practice in before dark. We were lucky to have my buddies Jeff Japs and Brian Okobu gave us their two garage spaces to use so we didn't have to worry about canopies blowing away or anything. 

So practice is over and we put the bikes away and do some fine tuning. Then the craziness begins... Our friend Dennis rolls into garage A with the MOK... Words cannot describe said vehicle... 

There may have been some adult beverages consumed this evening BUT...

Ummm, yeah...

We wore protection while shenanigans were taking place! ;)

I don't always drink beer at the racetrack... But when I do it's with my buddy Mark Dargis and this other guy...

 Saturday morning rolled in WAY TOO EARLY... The riders meeting may have had me causing trouble bright and early and I snuck up on the tower and harassed everyone while they were trying to be serious about something or another...

Morning riders meeting we were a bit groggy...

Then race day began after a few practice sessions and then I started off with the Supertwin race... What an eye opener! Pretty much got the holeshot and then watched about a dozen bikes blast past me going into turn one... One does not just show up to BIR with a stock engine and expect to be competitive... I forgot this! Had some good battles and worked my way up to a 10th place finish out of 22 bikes and was pretty happy with that. I could reel the pack in on the infield and then watch them pull on the straight... Work needed to be done so I could stay in the draft of the lead group...

LWSB was next up a few races later, I lined up with a goal of bettering my time from the Supertwins race of 1:57.7 and to see if I could find some speed somewhere to keep the draft of the lead group. The green flag drops and I launch really well again right up towards the front and then have the dozen or so bikes blow by me... Discouraging... But I keep my head down on that first lap and was able to keep Kyle Dahl in my sights and coming into turn 10 I am on him! He pulled me all the way down the straight and I was able to keep with him for the rest of the race with no real challenges. I found that I could go through turn 8 faster than him so I waited for the last lap and went up the inside going into turn 9 and lofted the rear wheel and went sideways right in front of him but kept it upright and kept it pinned into turn 10. Held a defensive line in 10 and hoped he wouldn't get by me by timing and scoring... He didn't! I beat him by .1 of a second and scored a 7th place finish! I was really happy with that! The best part was I got down to 1:56.2's dropping over a second off my lap time! Good stuff!

Awesome pic of me on Project Supertwin on the front straight by Steve Diamond Elements!

 Then the waiting... We had a storm roll in and I had pretty much called it and started packing stuff up. But a few red flags and stopped races made time for the track to start drying out so I suited back up and decided to go give it a go. My buddy Mark Dargis came over and gave me some pointers on where the track was wet and what was and wasn't slippery... I ran down to the start area and found very few of us arrived to race. On the sighting lap I found a river across the track coming into turn 4 and another one coming into turn 8. Made some mental notes to take it easy there and lined up on the front straight. Green flag drops, I drop the hammer, keep grabbing gears and I end up in turn 1 in the lead... Go into turn 2 and am still in the lead... Whoa, what do I do now, turn 3 is soaked! I enter 3 really timidly and Jack Barton on his rain tires rides around the outside of me like I was standing still... Dammit... So the goal is to keep him in sight and since turn 9-10 is dry I want to try outbraking him on the last lap and try to beat him to the line... We get to turn 7 and I see him not slow and he hits the water coming across the track and boom he hits the deck and slides off the track right in front of me... OK, so I put my head down and ran my own race for the rest of the time and all of a sudden they pull the green flag and give me the white! I am like holy shit I am gonna bring this thing home if I stay upright one more lap! No real big issues on the last lap with some sideways antics coming into turn 4 being the only incident and I get around to the front straight and give my buddy Joey Kasper on the sidelines a thumbs up while he is cheering me on and I take the checkered flag for the win! Not the way I wanted my first win since getting back but I will take it. 

My brother from another mother Joey Kasper and myself in the PPIHC team gear after my win!

Some Bell Schwag!

Big Shoutout to Mike Adair and Brett Donahue for hooking me up with Bell Helmets being my helmet sponsor, I look forward to promoting the line and it has been good working with you guys this season! Can't wait to have ya out for Pikes Peak next year!!!

With that, we were done racing for the weekend and ready to party the evening away before the run back to Colorado a thousand miles away! 

BIG Thanks to everyone that made this return to BIR happen for me, it was bittersweet to get to play on my home track again for the first time in 10 years and the CRA is just as inviting as they always have been! Will see you boys and girls next year! 

Cheers!

 

One mile long front straight away into the fastest turn one in North America!

Good Times Were Had By ALL!!!

From Left to Right: Adam Bauer, Jose Rivera, Rachel Gillie, Danielle Russell, and David Absolon.

Let's go race at Brainerd they said... Part 1

So I had to work the last race weekend at High Plains Raceway this season so I missed my last chance of the year to race the Supertwin with the MRA. :( I did, however, have the following Friday off and found out it was the last CRA race weekend in Minnesota... Hmmm, that's only a thousand miles away... This is doable right? :)

So I made a few calls, figured out what I needed to do to make this happened and started packing!

Thursday rolled around and my buddies David & Jose rolled up and we loaded up and were BIR Bound!

A road trip can't be a road trip without something failing or causing a slight detour... Our slight detour happened the following morning about 45 minutes away from the track... We were cruising along in a construction zone and all of a sudden BOOM and I look in the mirror to see sparks flying and then the wheel and tire bounced past the passenger window and into the ditch!!!! We were like holy shit!

  Now we all have heard saying like "Minnesota Nice"... Well we witnessed this in action! A guy came out from a construction company to see what had happened and told us to get it pulled into his yard and we can use his tools and fork lift! So we get it in the yard, unload the bikes and gear and get to work.

A HUGE Thank You to the guys at KJohnson Construction for the help! I got on the phone and my friend Abbie got in touch with her husband Troy to come rescue the bikes and gear while David and Jose ran into town to get the axle fixed and new bearings installed. So John and Troy show up and we load everything up and head to the track. 

Finally getting to the track was kind of surreal for me, the last time I was at Brainerd International Raceway was ten years ago when I was racing my 125 and 250 Hondas winning a ton of stuff! The weather didn't look good so I hurried up and got a practice session in before the storm... OH MAN DO I MISS Turn 1!!! 6th gear flat out pinned, you roll over onto the skinny side of the tire and speed up dropping into it... SUCH A RUSH!!! That was my thoughts on my first time through on my first lap at speed... It truly is something you have to experience to understand it!

Back in and getting everything ready for the guys I ran into Rachel and Danielle from Colorado and found that we ended up have 4 racers come in to race! Good Stuff!

Will be back with part 2 of this adventure shortly, in the meantime here is a look at the front straight in the rain during practice for ya to pucker up a bit!

Good Times! See ya soon!

Cheers!

Months later and we are still getting new pics!

Wowza! I got a bunch of emails from a friend Doug Chestnutt with pics he found on his camera so I thought I would share! Thanks Doug!

Above The Clouds

Morning Gold

Brilliant Morning on Pikes Peak

First morning practice, nerves definitely in effect...

Here We GOOOOOOOOO!!!

So much FUN!

On the way back down from a qualifying run.

Guy Martin, JD, Me, & Winner Jeremy Toye

Guy Martin's Monstrocity early in the morning...

Mike had a bit of a rough ride off the edge into the woods... He came out OK and raced a motorbike!!!

Coming in HOT!!!

So many good times, I will be signing up to race again next year. We are working on a more competitive bike and will most likely be shooting for a podium position in the Middleweight Division! Stay Tuned! 

Oh and I forgot to post up about my last race weekend back in Minnesota with the CRA! Will post up about that adventure this weekend!!!! ;)

Cheers!