Originally Posted by WasntMe

All in all Ricksta is a good person. He is young and lets his mouth get the better of him on the forum. Yes he got ragged on really hard this weekend expecially by me. But as I explained to him he earned it from all of his crap talk here. We only knew him from here and here he is a big smack talker. In person he really did not talk much.
He owes alot of thanks to Donna and Christoph for the massive amount of help they gave him, he owes Rob (my main control rider) thanks for the free set of Michellin take off slicks he was given along with a ton of great advice and lead follow, Rick from Hooters loaned him stands to work on his bike, Nick and Jeremey helped him get the wheels on and off the bike, Mike from JGP did a quick tire swap for him, and I paid for the tire swap. I am sure I am missing people here because so many people helped this kid, hopefully he does not forget who those people are.
There is a rule to racing...go fast in the fast parts of the track. Ricksta went very fast in the fast parts. For the most part that is what made his lap times good. He can ride a bike. Had he not talked so much smack I would say he did extremely well on his first track. Overall he did do very good....he did not crash. He was safe and considerate on the track. He did none of the stupid stuff he has done on the street. But he either does not listen well or he does not abosorb information well...not sure which. I do not mind explaining things a few times but when it comes to safety issues I hate to repeate myself. He a hard time understanding red flags. I think he has it now.
If he drops the ego and pays attention he will be a very good rider. He has big balls and some skill. If he would use the information given to him he proably would have gone faster today. I hope to see him out there again.