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Teasley and Adams Performance in the Crosshairs
Jeremy
Teasley and his Adams Performance/RS Motorsports Kawasaki ZX14 are a
runaway train, and the MiRock Superbike Series is targeting the 19
year-old rider with an escalating bounty. The bounty is open to anyone
outside of the Adams Performance/RS Motorsports team that can knock the
kid off. Each race that the bounty goes uncollected will see the total
increase, and if Teasley makes it through the season undefeated he will
collect the bounty himself!
Two wins at Rockingham Dragway made it three for three HTP Performance
Real Street victories so far in 2010. Teasley’s first win of the
weekend came on Saturday against New Jersey superstar Rickey Gadson and
his Carpenter Race Engines ZX14. Sunday’s Real Street final saw what’s
become a common sight—Teasley racing Adams Performance team boss Coby
Adams. Since Adams started riding at the AMA Dragbike event at Atco,
New Jersey, last year, all but two events in both series have been
Jeremy vs. Coby, all-Adams Performance Kawasaki finals. “These bikes of
Roger Starrette’s are definitely tough to beat,” said Adams.
Jeremy took the tree against Coby and ran a record-setting 7.83, while
Adams wheelied in the right lane and lost. “I don’t know, I didn’t do
anything different,” said Adams, who earlier in the day ran his first 7
ever on anything. “Between Jeremy and Chip (Ellis, who beat Adams the
weekend before in Martin, Michigan), they seem to set records against
me. I’m the only one they really wanna pick on that bad, I guess!”
Teasley, who qualified number 1 with a 7.84, practically apologized for
running 7.90s all day until the final. “It looked like we were slacking
all day, but we really weren’t,” said Jeremy, holding his two trophies
aloft to prove that it all came together in the end. “It’s wheelieing.”
“We need to work on the chassis a little more,” said Starrette, who
assembles and tunes the two blue ‘14’s. “It’s not working good down
track. A little more weight transfer and we can shoot a little more
nitrous to it quicker, and a .70 would be a good possibility. Jeremy
and I are just now learning how each other works and I’m just now
getting a handle on tuning for him. He gives me good feedback but I was
being a little too aggressive. I’m used to the heavyweights like Coby.
Tiny changes make a big difference at Jeremy’s weight. But we’re
getting a good system down now and we still have more left. We coulda
ran .70’s that round, but we turned it down to be safe.”
The team’s repetitive Real Street success has yet to get old with them.
Teasley, Adams, Starrette and crew could read these winning headlines
everyday.
The team’s Atlanta-winning Pro Street ZX14 had a slow motion nitrous
explosion during Saturday’s last qualifier. The bike died suddenly as
it passed the tree. Just past 60 feet nitrous started spraying a cloud
around the front of the bike, which about two seconds later exploded,
followed by a small fire. “I thought it was over, and then ‘Bam!’” said
Starette. Teasley coolly glided the bike to a stop, and the Rockingham
staff deftly extinguished the fire without overdoing it and covering
the bike in extinguisher gunk. Little damage was done, but no lessons
learned, so the bike was parked for the weekend rather than risking
another incident. “A nitrous solenoid stuck open but we don’t know why.
I don’t know if it was electrically stuck open or mechanically stuck
open, but it filled the airbox full, choked the motor down, then caught
a spark and then ‘Boom!’ We coulda thrashed and put it back together,
but some little small something coulda done it again. Take your time,
fix it right, come back two weeks in Maryland.”
Adams Performance races next June 5-6 at the Fast by Gast Summer Showdown at Maryland International Raceway in Budd’s Creek.
Adams Performance would like to thank
Jeremy Teasley would like to thank Simpson Race Products and Vanson Leathers
Adamsperformance.net
Adams Performance
Coby Adams
501 Performance Road
Mooresville, NC 28115
(704) 662-0992
cobyadams@alltel.net
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