A wise man once said: "Stereotypes are in place for a reason". Granted he might have been talking about getting drunk on St Patrick's day when "everyone is Irish", but we'll just go with it. Without further ado here is TrackDay Stereotypes volume 1!
-The streetfighter rider that shows up to talk to his track friends and brag to anyone that will listen about how awesome his bike (old GSXR missing all its fairings with a dirtbike front end) is. Bonus points if he's wearing a "cut" advertising some RC/MC.
-The 16 year old girl on the 20 year old 125CC GP bike that spends the first half of the day lapping faster than adults on 1000cc bikes, then leaves after her engine explodes because its a 20 year old 2-stroke. Her family is one of those mainstays of the local racing community (in one niche class) and always operates on a shoestring budget.
-Guy with a BMW that starts super aggressive then spends more time trying to sort out why his bike won't run (electrical gremlins in a sensor somewhere) than riding, then leaves early.
-The clueless first timer on a Monster/FZ1/other upright standard/sportbike that shows up with a backpack. Usually someone takes him in and shows him the ropes/lets him rest under their canopy so he doesn't dehydrate and die.
-The guy who shows up with a motorhome/trailer and a full MotoAmerica/MotoGP sized pit worth of stuff. Usually has all his club racing buddies pit with him and they hang up some kind of sign advertising their edgy "race team" name. Included is optional pit wife with a gaggle of small children or dogs. OK I'm a bit jealous maybe, but I'm not jealous of the logistics. Bonus points if the grill (that costs more than my bike) comes out at lunch and they make the pit smell like Burger King. Even more bonus points if their "pit bikes" cost more than my bike and their pit wife drives around the pit in a brand new $20k SxS ATV (also Pit Wife costs more than my bike).
-The C group guy on an ex-race bike. For whatever reason someone totally new the the track that plunked down the cash on a turn key race package and *looks* like a racer but isn't, but thinks he is. He doesn't know how to maintain the Graves R1 he just bought and surely doesn't know how to ride it. But his Instagram has like 1.2m followers so who am I to talk, right?
-The super aggressive club racer in C-group. This guy normally races in the open-sportsman and can't seem to ever make top 10. He goes to trackdays and signs up for C-group so he can "practice his passing" which translates to "ignore C-group passing rules" and dive bomb all the newer/slower riders. He's pretty much just padding his ego in C-group.
-The tiny Asian guy on a 250/300. No idea where he's pitting, don't know who he is, wears Dainese, doesn't speak English well, passes me about twice per session. Dangit there he goes again, three times.
-The GoPro Hero. He has a camera on his helmet, one on the tail of his bike, a forward facing one, and reverse facing one. His youtube channel has more subscribers than mine. Often seen walking around the pits with a GoPro on a selfi stick talking to his subscribers or getting close up shots of his melty tires
