Lake Elsinore Grand Prix Weekend

This weekend is the kick-off of the desert riding season in Southern California, and what a great way to kick it off with the Lake Elsinore Grand Prix!  Revived a few years ago by my friends at Podium Productions, the LEGP is a full weekend of racing in and around Lake Elsinore, a beautiful community just east of Los Angeles and northeast of San Diego.  All the different classes of racing are too numerous to list-check their website out.  If none of those races interest you, you aren't interested in off-road racing!  Beginners, mini's (including tiny tots-some who can barely walk get out there and race!), quads, vintage and yes, off-road sidecars.  That's got to be wild, as I've seen track sidecar racing but off-road?  And I thought my work was crazy!

Of course, how could you mention SOCAL off-road racing, the Lake Elsinore Grand Prix, and motorcycles and not mention one Harvey Mushman.  Some folks use his screen name more often, but Harvey Mushman was a legend in racing circles out in SOCAL and in his honor there will be the Harvey Mushman 100 at 2:15 this afternoon.  This is an open race over 100 miles looping in and out of Lake Elsinore.  A true test of endurance and a hotly contested event.  I bet even Steve McQueen would race in it if he was still around!

If you are in SoCAL this weekend and looking for something to do, head out to Lake Elsinore for the Grand Prix.  Some of my Christian Motorcyclists Association (CMA) brothers and sisters will be out there-tell them "Bur" sent you and say "Hi".  Have a great weekend whatever kind of riding you are doing and keep it dirty side down.

Let's go racing-WERA schedule posted!

WERA has posted their updates schedule and there are big changes to the WERA-WEST "rotation".  Many more races at Auto Club Speedway and while the season kicks off and ends at Las Vegas as it has most recently, there isn't a true winter race at ACS.  The first Fontana round is in April.  There will be trackdays and racer schools associated with most these race weekends I'm pretty sure.

Looks good to race CVMA then go right into WERA-West competition and then back.  CVMA schedule linked in my post on that series' schedule.

Chuckwalla Valley Raceway 2014 Motorcycle Racing Schedule is out!

Just saw this last night:

2014 races for the 2013-2014 season:

January 25-26
February 22-23
March 15-16
April 19-20

Lots of good racing, and a Trackdaz Friday track day before each one for trackday riders and newbies to attend the racer school.

Of course, CMA will be out there helping out, hanging out, blessing bikes and holding a sunrise chapel service.

I'll post the WERA-West schedule and a link to the full national schedule this weekend.