Sunday 21 December 2008

bradford race day

Pretty mint day today in bradford. The weather was to good, head on wind down the first straight and third straight, so it meant it was pretty hard to get a good gate and first straight, it got worst as the day went on.
my gates where feeling pretty strong for me, come first moto all crusiers where in together which meant it was pretty stacked matty glyn and me doing it 16-29, russ, rory, nigel, tank and two others doing it for 30-39 and 40+. i was expecting to be snapped by rory as he can normally snap me but i had gate one with matt in gate two, managed to get a really strong start and moved across matt, to avoid the soft stuff, got into first turn first and felt the wheels going from under me due to the loose stuff on the burm and i thought i was going to was out but managed to keep it under control and came out in first, did the 2nd straight fast, come to the 2nd turn i decided to crank it round and go for the pro, coming onto the triple on the pro after spinning alot of it, my legs where on fire, nigel just managed to get out in front and get round the last turn in 1st, i had 2 people go straight under russ doing it old school with the foot out skid and rory just doing the normal thing, so managed to get 4th in that moto, i thing matt fell off somewhere aswell for some reason.

by the time the 2nd moto came round i was shattered with only a few minute break not enough to recover so i didn't do to good in this moto, ended up with 6th i think, with matt beating me.

3rd moto and i was ready for it, didn't have a inside gate i had 4 instead with rory and nigel on the inside of me so managed to get into the first turn safley in third but had russ go under me then he slid out so i went to dodge him and matt glyn went straight into my back end and took himself off for the second time, i can't remeber what happened after that in the moto.

final time, i had gate 2, not a brilliant start but can't really remeber it all i was just trying to stay on the bike in the wind, it was so hard with head on wind when on the gate and the rain just started to come down.

managed to have a play around with my new camera in the practise, i enjoyed using it, i promised oggy that i would take some pictures of him on his new ride so i took a few, i like this one the best.
big upto to andyc to taking me and ben moss, hope the arms get better soon

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