Yea was sad cause they weren't letting auto and bikes on at the same time and minimum group size is 4, my first group on thunder raceway was me on my 8, friend was on his zx6r, then we had, a beat up r6, early 90s kawi, a zx14 with a beautiful full Brooks exhaust that sounded nuts... He was fallowing me and I could hear him the whole time, last guy was on a faired version of the z1000... Was a fun track and I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had more expierence, a lot of braking and shifting as opposed to the lightning circuit witch u can basically just coast threw the turns.. Now when we went to do the lighting track they were gonna make us wait cause t was just the 2 of us, but I found that random fz8 rider I saw and got him to go with us and they let just the 3 of us on... Took your advice DJ and just gave her hell, mostly was in 3rd hovering around 7k, only really shifted for the long straight and then back down to 3rd for the first turn.. Deffinatly will be going back this riding season. But gotta say seeing another 8 ripping on the track gave me a lot of confidence to really push her my second outing... My wallet is going to hate me