Photos, Video's & Times: Took My VFR to a 1/4 Mile Track (Cecil County Dragway - Rising Sun, MD)

My buddy and I took our bikes down to Cecil on a gorgeous 80* Friday night. He brought his Ducati 748 w/ a big bore kit, and I had my Interceptor. He didn't race, just took photos (clutch is slipping bad). This was my first time 1/4 mile dragging a motorcycle. I've been to the 1/4 mile before in my former Camaro Z28, Dodge Dakota 360, etc, and been to road courses (NJMP) on my Hawk GT prior. So I figured why not try it. Some photos:















My first launch was an epic failure. I was by myself on this "race" as well, so everyone saw it. I stalled. Awesomely. Restarted, then took down the track for a lovely 14.87 @ 116 (eww). Here's the video:
YouTube - Launch Fail - Stalled on the Start

The rest of my runs that night were pretty good. I was working mainly on my launching. At one point, I got quite a bit too comfortable, and that almost ended up costing me BIG time. I nearly flipped back and off the bike. The left lane was better traction all night, so I had to adjust my launches accordingly. I forgot... and the end result was this wheelie & 13.3 @ 116:
YouTube - Another Launch Failure - Wheelie This Time!!

My two best runs of the night were both 11.6's @ 118 and 119 MPH.

Here's the slightly slower one:
YouTube - Another Mid-11 Second Run on My VFR800 Interceptor - Cecil County Dragway in Rising Sun, MD

And the slightly faster one:
YouTube - 11.6 @ 119 on my 98 Honda VFR800 Interceptor at Cecil Country Dragway in Rising Sun, MD

And same one as above, only on-board:
YouTube - On-board For my 11.6 @ 119 Run at Cecil County Dragway


All in all it was a great night filled with lots of fun. I was figuring the VFR would be running low 12's all night, but I was rather happy with what it ran. I just have to work on my launching skills and maybe I'll be able to pull some low 11 second runs!

 

awesome post. i cant wait to get out of key west and hopefully have a lot more track days.

 

My best run was 11.28 @120.1 mph, temp was 73*.

 

i watched them all thats pretty cool...What did it cost to do the runs?

 

Thanks guys. This track costs $15 to run from 5pm 'til 10:30pm - as many as you can get in. I got in 8 runs from 7:45pm 'til 9:30pm then headed out.

 

for anyone in the tampa bay area this friday at Bradenton motorsports park $12 6-12pm run the 1/4 mile all you want. hope to see some fellow VFR'S out there.

 

What were your 60 foots? I raced at Maple tonight. Bone stock with gutted stock exhaust 03 VFR Mid 80's and fairly humid. by the end of the night running on the hotter side and best I could muster was an 11.9 at 114.5 mph with a 1.9 60 foot. This run was the first run as well. The others were 12 flat and within 112 to 114. Half had a run in with the rev limiter.

it seems true the 5th gens still put us 6th gens in place

 

The best 60' time was a 1.997. Most were 2.0XX's.

 

After a couple runs you were getting the thing figured out. Your times were getting consistant.

Good job!!

With drag racing it is better to shift early.

 

If I can ever get the Ninja 900 I have been working on complete thats the first thing I'm going to do is take it to the strip!

A friend of mine races up at Cecil too.

Thanks for posting up brother.

BZ