Angelle Sampey is still pushing for her first win aboard a Buell.

"We have room to improve and are on the right track of doing that," crew chief Bryce said after the team's second round loss to former champ Andrew Hines. "We're gonna go to Norwalk and keep improving."

"This is only our second year racing at Norwalk, so this is a very new track to us," said Angelle. "Anytime we go to a new track it takes some getting used to. I'm still not really familiar with the surface of the track or how we need to run there. Especially being with a new team, we're gonna have to figure that out together. We're gonna have to figure out what it takes to get the bike as straight as possible down the lanes. From what I remember it's a very good track, both lanes, so I don't think we'll have any issues.

"We do have to race back to back with last weekend at Englishtown, which is very tough. Physically and mentally, you just get exhausted. I flew home for one day and got my bills paid, unpacked and washed my clothes, put 'em back in my suitcase, and got right back on the road again. But the good thing is that you do kinda stay in a race frame of mind, so going from one race to the next is actually better. You don't lose your momentum."

The bike went straight from New Jersey to Ohio, and the team has been hard at work in the Norwalk pits. "We've been doing maintenance and putting our stuff together," said Bryce. "We're gonna try to go some rounds and move up another spot in the points."

"It's getting pretty frustrating that we haven't won anything yet," finished Angelle. "We all want to win very bad. I think our performance is showing that we can win, we just have to have everything going right. Good luck, good teamwork, good tuning, good driving, and all at the same time. We just haven't had everything all at the same time yet. But we'll get it together. I'm feeling pretty confident about this weekend."