Last weekend was the first race weekend of our season at the Westwood Motorcycle Racing Club
in Mission, BC just outside Vancouver.
A wet and wild weekend...
We had a newish R6 decide to self-immolate as a sacrifice to the gods of bad tank design. As the racer bounced off the air fence exiting a slow speed hairpin, his bike was leaving a trail of flames from the ruptured tank.
Other bikes avoided the flames:
Fire extinguishers were useless:
Sometimes, you just have to walk away:
The aftermath:
Other shots from the weekend:
