The second race on Matt Lynn’s schedule was round 2 of the WERA National Challenge Series held at Talladega Gran Prix, located in Munford Alabama. The Weather for the weekend was forecasted to be pretty bad for Friday and Saturday with a lot of rain and thunderstorms, but clearing out on Sunday. Friday morning rain has set in and covered the track with puddles, however the rain had stopped by 10 o’clock and the track was starting to dry out around noon. Matt spent the morning prepping the ZX10R to ride the half day of practice, “I pretty much just used today to work on the ZX10. I know that I still have some work to do on the bike. It’s getting better; I am just trying to figure out how to get it to do what I want.”
Sunday morning, race day, was overcast, cold, and windy, practice started at 8:30am and track did not have any heat in it. “I used this morning to try some settings that I wanted to and I think that I have the 600 dialed in for the two races today, the 1000 is working pretty well too.” Matt said.
Race 1 was the Open Superstock race on the big ZX10. Matt wheelies off the start which cost him 3 positions; but he put his head down and made up the positions and worked his way into 6th. “My start was horrible; I think I lifted the front wheel twice, I need to work on it. As for the bike, it was working alright, I know that I can do better I just need to get this thing figured out.”
Race 2 was the 600 Superstock race; Matt was looking forward to this race and was excited to race the zx6. He was gridded on the second row which gave him a clear view to the first turn. Matt was fourth going into turn one, a little bobble by Taylor Knapp pushed Matt wide which let 2 riders get under him. Going into turn two Matt passed one rider. Brian Stokes was in front of Matt and by turn four Matt had put a pass on him and worked his way into fourth place. Matt had a clear view of the trio of Corey West, Taylor Knapp and Robert Jensen; he was just out of touch of three in front on him. “Those guys were just running a faster pace than I could. They were just going at it up there, and once they gapped me I just couldn’t push to catch them” said Matt.
Race 3 was the 600 Superbike race, Matt had a front row start for this race. Jensen grabbed the lead off the start; Matt was chasing him down for the first half of the race. A bobble over in the turn 5 area cost Matt and Robert was able to gap him just a little. Matt crossed the line second after the 12 lap race. “I knew going into this race that Robert was going to be tough. I went close to half a second faster in this race. I feel that I am making progress on getting the bike dialed in for me.”
Race 4 for Matt was the last race of the day, Formula 1. Matt was starting from the 5th row and knew he was going to have some work to do. “I have been using the Formula 1 race as kind of a set up race for me to try new settings or tires on the ZX10. I have been working hard on this bike. I started on the fifth row and had a lot of positions to make up. The bike wasn’t handling that well on the 1st, 2nd or even 3rd lap. It seemed to start coming around after half way. Unfortunately I broke my shift rod and couldn’t finish the race.” Matt was gaining on the 3 guys in front of him Jacobi, Hunt and Acree when he pulled out.
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