oh bollox, what a weekend!
should have set my bike up for the wet...
I didn't really see the point in going out on Friday in the wet, Sat & Sun were going to be dry weren't they? and I have spent the last 8 weeks perfecting my bike for the perfect dry lap of Brands which as it turns out is bloody awful in the wet.
having just had the conversation with my son about qualifying meaning very little, having won races that I qualified badly for and not won races for which I was on pole by a long way. I wobbled round in the Qualifying at a very slow comfortable pace on a drying track with a full dry set-up, but apparently so did everyone else. I was surprised to be in 6th on the grid, only .9 behind pole.
Race 1 was a complete disaster, the organizers for reasons only known to them called us 20 minutes early BECAUSE IT RAINED! apparently the only bikes that don't use wets are the ones that should be moved into the wet spots. Being all the way down in the bottom paddock we only just had time to jump on our bikes and 'race' up through the paddock, to arrive just in time for the warm up lap. The race was a joke for me, and I promised myself that I wouldn't race in those conditions again.
Race 2 was even more of a disaster, for the same reasons as race 1, they called us 20 minutes early again BECAUSE IT RAINED again with no time to adjust anything again. I missed that race because I felt it was impossible to be ready in time.
I was so cross and upset, I understand the the weather is out of control, but to be called 20 minutes early because of the rain is unacceptable, and for me, unsafe.
Race 3 was obviously going to be wet so about 20 minutes before the race I lowered the rear ride height a bit, adjusted my tyre pressures, softened the dampening a little and ate a banana
, I had a good safe race and came 2nd what a difference 20 minutes makes.
Then I dropped a motorcycle on my foot and ended up in the med-centre........