CHANGES STILL WORKING FOR RIVAS
Sat, 2008-09-27 09:00
Chris Rivas will be the first to admit changing everything combination-wise on the Drag Specialties/G2 Buell 
was a huge gamble. He’ll also tell you that it was a gamble that is still delivering a jackpot.
If you ask Rivas what change led to his recent victory at Dallas and provisional No. 1 qualifying effort at Memphis, he’ll simply say the changes.
No details. No one particular part.
There’s a good reason for those answers. He doesn’t know. Chris Rivas will be the first to admit changing everything combination-wise on the Drag Specialties/G2 Buellwas a huge gamble. He’ll also tell you that it was a gamble that is still delivering a jackpot.
If you ask Rivas what change led to his recent victory at Dallas and provisional No. 1 qualifying effort at Memphis, he’ll simply say the changes.
No details. No one particular part.
There’s a good reason for those answers. He doesn’t know.
What he does know is that every one of those changes worked.
“I think the tune up on my bike, it’s more than me doing anything different,” Rivas admitted. “At this point, I don’t think I have to do anything different then what I’ve been doing. I’ve been riding the bike real well, hitting all the shift points and doing everything the way we are supposed to do. It’s up to the bike at this point to make all the power.”
All of a sudden Rivas considers himself a championship contender unlike when the team left Charlotte in a funk, the end result of a no-start in the first round.
“We’re definitely on an upstroke here,” Rivas said. “We’re feeling real good about the whole countdown and everything. Having that no-start in Charlotte was a killer to the morale and everything else. It was real hard on the whole team and that’s why we did the drastic things we did. They really helped out and we’re definitely back in it. That was a huge shot in the arm.
“[Owner/crew chief] Big George Smith was down on everything about this season because we’ve had some situations where we don’t look too smart out here. But now the fact is us moving up five spots it was like everything was given back plus a little bit more, so it feels great.”
was a huge gamble. He’ll also tell you that it was a gamble that is still delivering a jackpot.If you ask Rivas what change led to his recent victory at Dallas and provisional No. 1 qualifying effort at Memphis, he’ll simply say the changes.
No details. No one particular part.
There’s a good reason for those answers. He doesn’t know. Chris Rivas will be the first to admit changing everything combination-wise on the Drag Specialties/G2 Buell
was a huge gamble. He’ll also tell you that it was a gamble that is still delivering a jackpot.If you ask Rivas what change led to his recent victory at Dallas and provisional No. 1 qualifying effort at Memphis, he’ll simply say the changes.
No details. No one particular part.
There’s a good reason for those answers. He doesn’t know.
What he does know is that every one of those changes worked.
“I think the tune up on my bike, it’s more than me doing anything different,” Rivas admitted. “At this point, I don’t think I have to do anything different then what I’ve been doing. I’ve been riding the bike real well, hitting all the shift points and doing everything the way we are supposed to do. It’s up to the bike at this point to make all the power.”
All of a sudden Rivas considers himself a championship contender unlike when the team left Charlotte in a funk, the end result of a no-start in the first round.
“We’re definitely on an upstroke here,” Rivas said. “We’re feeling real good about the whole countdown and everything. Having that no-start in Charlotte was a killer to the morale and everything else. It was real hard on the whole team and that’s why we did the drastic things we did. They really helped out and we’re definitely back in it. That was a huge shot in the arm.
“[Owner/crew chief] Big George Smith was down on everything about this season because we’ve had some situations where we don’t look too smart out here. But now the fact is us moving up five spots it was like everything was given back plus a little bit more, so it feels great.”
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