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Quebec Provincial round 1 and 2

5/26/2014

The first 2 rounds of the Quebec provincial are in the books, result were pretty similar both weekend, clean sweep in all women's races and had some ups and downs in the 3 Junior classes. I had some really good ones and really bad ones. In Ste-Véronique in the last moto of the weekend I was involved in a huge first turn pile up and hurt my shoulder. I had to put it to rest the all week to be ready for Ste-Julie. I can't wait to line a couple of good races together. On the bright side I now have the speed to ride in front against the men, I just have to improve my consistency.

Thanks to all my supporter

In the next few weeks I will be racing couple of CQMX races and maybe an enduro... we will see how it goes.

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Las Vegas and Latuque race report

5/13/2014

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Las Vegas was a blast, we had so much fun. Starting with the Arenacross practice on Friday, some site seeing and gun shooting Friday night, SX on Saturday and the Arenacross qualifying and finals on Sunday. I had the best lap time in Friday morning practice session and 2nd best in the afternoon. It was looking good for Sunday.

In the qualifying race I rode 1st for most of the race but got caught through lappers and finished 2nd. Again I knew I had the speed to win. In the finals I was running in 3rd in the schoolboy class when I had a big get off over the finish line catapult jump and finished 5th, then was time for the Womens race where I had an OK start and was catching up to the leader when I accidentally stalled the bike in the whoops section. I fired it up real quick and pushed hard and was catching on second place rider again when I lost the front end in a corner and lost a lots of times and positions. I ended 5th in the womens also. Let me tell you I am really disappointed with my results in the finals as I could have win (or at least podiums) that race.

I don't want to make any excuses but I really feel the 3 hour jetlag and staying up too late at the supercross race got the best of me as I shouldn't have made those little mistake and I was falling asleep between the motos on Sunday. We have learn from our mistakes and hopefully we'll be back even stronger next year .

Photo credit : Pierre Tremblay

This past weekend was our first canadian race in Latuque Quebec for the first round of the Challenge Quebec series. I will only do a couple of races in this racing series as it is in conflict with the Canadian nationals. They had a good turn out with 31 Ladies on the gate for the Women's class. I was unchallenged finishing with an over 30 second lead in the first moto. My fathers wanted to give me a little more challenge in the second moto and we decided we would wait before the first gate drop of womens would pass the first turn before taking off (about 10 second behind). It didn't worked as plan as the gate referee lift the gate right back up after the first group and I had to wait for the second gate drop to take off (about 30 second behind). I took off, kept my composure and rapidly catched back up to the first group and passed all of them one by one and still finished with a 20 second ahead second place rider. My confidence level is way up and I can't wait for next week-end to see how I'll do against the fastest CMRC/AMXQ Girls and can't wait to see how I'll be able to perform in the men's class.

Untill then it's school all week, Gym and the final packing of the race rig for our first trip out at the races with the rig this year.

Thanks to all who support my racing program ; Mom, Dad, Simon, Duroy racing, KTM Canada, Dunlop tires, Motovan.com, Forma boots, EC3D, Oakley Canada, Kutvek Amerika, KB5 Suspensions, MotoOption.com, DT1 Filters, Evans Cooling, Xtown.ca, Mongoose/Rekluse Canada, Aldo Racing and AquaHydrate

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Pre season racing / Cato Mx and Motomasters

5/1/2014

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The tracks are slowly opening for practice here in Quebec; but racing season doesn’t start until late May. Every year we do some pre-season racing and we always look forward for some racing opportunities. This time we had the chance to attend 3 western and central New-York races. Pavilion (see previous Race report), Cato MX and Motomasters in Mexico NY. These were 2 tracks we’ve never visited before so it was really fun but also challenging to be competing with new racers at new tracks.

Cato Mx is hard pack and rocky. I felt so good on the 250 and battling for the lead with the boys in the Novice class, easily won the women and also did great on the 150 in the schoolboy class. Finishing the day with a 1st, 3rd and 5th overall in the 3 classes.

Last week we had multiple options where to race but I really wanted to go to Motomasters because this is where all the fast North East women’s were going to be. I did great easily winning the Women’s class. The men’s class were more of a challenge. Bad start, 2nd turn pile up led me to start dead last in the first 250 Novice race but a charge through the pack and a bunch of last lap pass made for a 30th to 10th place by checkered flag. Second race was much better, started in 7 and made my way up to 3rd for a 5th overall.

In the schoolboy 250 class I went 3-5 for a third place overall, which is pretty amazing considering there were a bunch of B class boys in this class.

As I’m typing this we’re on our way to Las Vegas where I will be competing in the AMA amateur National Arenacross. We will also be attending the Supercross race on Saturday. I’m pretty excited about it.

None of this would be possible without these amazing partners:

KTM Canada
Duroy Racing
Motovan.com
Dunlop
Forma
Oakley Canada
Xtown.ca
Taillefer Motorsports
Kutvek Amerika
EC3D
KB5 suspension
DT1 Filters
Evans Cooling
MotoOption
Rekluse Canada / Mongoose

Les pistes commencent lentement à ouvrir pour les pratiques au Québec, cependant la saison de course ne commence pas avant fin Mai. Pour cette raison, à tous les ans nous participons avec des amis à quelques courses dans l’état de New-York. Lors des 2 dernières fin de semaine j’ai participé à des courses à Cato Mx et a Motomasters, 2 pistes que je n’avais jamais visité avant.

Cato Mx est une piste de terre dure et rocailleuse. Encore une fois j’ai eu de très bonnes performances sur ma 250, principalement dans la classe Junior où je me suis battue pour les positions de tête avec les hommes. J’ai facilement gagné la classe Femme et aussi fait de très bonnes performances en schoolboy sur ma 150cc. J’ai terminé la journée avec des résultats de 3, 1 et 5 respectivement dans les 3 classes.

La fin de semaine dernière nous sommes allé courser à Motomasters ou certaines des femmes les plus rapides du Nord-est des États-Unis c’était donné rendez-vous. Encore une fois j’ai facilement gagné la classe femme et terminé 3e en schoolboy 250 battant du même coup plusieurs coureurs Intermédiaire.

La classe Junior 250 fut un peu plus ardue, un mauvais départ dans la première course suivie d’une empilade quelques courbes plus tard me relégua au dernier rang. Je suis par la suite repartit à la charge et remonté de la 30e place pour terminer 10e au drapeau à damier. La deuxième manche se déroula beaucoup mieux partant de la 7e place et terminant 4e pour une 5e place au combiné.

J’écris présentement ce rapport de course dans l’avion en route pour Las Vegas où je participe à la finale AMA Amateur National Championship, nous assisterons aussi a la finale du Supercross le samedi.

Tout ceci ne serait possible sans le support de nos précieux partenaires:

KTM Canada
Duroy Racing
Motovan.com
Dunlop
Forma
Oakley Canada
Xtown.ca
Taillefer Motorsports
Kutvek Amerika
EC3D
KB5 suspension
DT1 Filters
Evans Cooling
MotoOption
Rekluse Canada / Mongoose

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Quebec Provincial round 1 and 2

Las Vegas and Latuque race report

Pre season racing / Cato Mx and Motomasters

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