This weekend, Sandy, Cann, and I met up with some friends at the California Speedway in Fontana, CA to watch the AMA Superbike races! We got there kind of late after having lunch at The Hat (so good, yet so bad for you) because I didn’t see our turn and missed the track by about 4 miles. When we got there the first race of the day had already started, but we hauled it over to the track (parking about a mile away) in time to catch the tail end of it where Ben Spies overtook Mat Mladin on the last lap and WON (by a margin of 0.011 seconds!) to sweep the weekend (he won on Saturday’s race, too.) After that excitement we hung out to watch next race and chatted while trying to snap pictures. I don’t know how sports shooters do it…most of my attempts were out of focus (or focused on the wrong thing) or had the subject completely NOT in frame. I think I’ll stick to slower-moving subjects, haha.

Some of you may know that I have a Honda motorcycle sitting in my garage that I went down on a few years ago at Willow Springs racetrack and have yet to fix. I guess I’m still bitter about that crash since it was on lap 2 of the trackday and it was such a stupid mistake. But going to watch the races, hearing the bikes fly by at high rpms, and smelling the gas fumes brought back a kind of nostalgic yearning to get my bike fixed and back onto the open road.

However, I’m a bit older now with a different set of priorities. Also, I’ve been pining for a new camera…hopefully whatever replaces the 5D with motivate me enough to fix and sell the bike ending my riding days…for now.

Anyhow, enjoy the pictures!

My favorite shot of the day: Johnny Rock Page

Tommy Hayden

Dean Mizdal

Jamie Hacking

Shane Narbonne, Alessandro Assanti, and ??

Reno Kariman

Kevin Boisvert

Haha, Sandy’s squinting at the bright sun that was beating down at us all day!

Cann Hoe

Phi Pham

Phi & Trinh

Michael Beck

Tags: ama, ca, fontana, motorcycle, race, superbike