The excellent grip and abrasive surface forced riders to exercise some conservative early strategy in order to conserve tires, with Carr making the most of it and then checking out for a rather convincing victory. As the Sacramento race makes up the second part of the F-USA Grand Slam, Carr has decided to travel to Del Mar, CA in October to attempt to complete the Slam there and take home the big prize, having taken the first segment by winning Oklahoma City in July.
"Didn't really get a great start, but I wasn't too concerned about it, because I was in tire conservation mode the first ten laps or so. I went to the lead for the first time right around lap twelve and tried to make a break. I didn't realize that, in order to do that, I would probably have wasted my tire if I tried to break that early. So I backed up a little bit, and the guys came back up to me, and we had a great race going with King and Hacker and (Dan) Stanley - and (Terry) Poovey was in tow. Stanley was on a single, and Poovey was too - those guys were running real good on those things.
"A couple laps to go, I went to the front and dropped the hammer. I was able to squirt away from them. I had about ten or fifteen bike lengths lead a the end, so it worked out real good for us. We got the win in our hometown for Mike Shattuck - kind of a going away present to be able to win the Sacramento Mile in his hometown - so that was a good deal.
"The crowd was great, I mean considering we were probably one of the only motorsports events running in the whole country that we know of. The crowd was real supportive. They did a real nice opening ceremonies, and they talked of the tragedy in New York and Washington, and it was good for everybody.
"I'm going to go up and do a Supercamp In Spokane Washington this week, and then head out to DuQuoin and come back for Del Mar. That's the Grand Slam money - gotta race for the money. "