Donny Trackday
Arrive Sat, quiet day, fit baffle, sign on, dry track, good job, fast group, four groups?, what the..., oh well, make best, warm up, get out, learn track, bloody hell, here before?, not sure, seems alien, fug it.
No lunch?, no way, take lunch, six sessions, good practice, nothing silly, building pace, practice lines, braking points, too deep, too fast, too old, wrong gear, who knows, drink tea.
Session six, quicken pace, run hot, feel good, into goddards, gixxer thou, wants line, my line, tip in, knee down, gixxer there, on line, my line, oh fug, cranked over, knee down, hit brakes, very hard, front tucks, go down!!, ouch!!! Get up, swear loads, shoulder hurts, back hurts, pride hurts, oh ferk!! Bike up, check damage, two levers, no brakes!!, ride back, no brakes, get back, no brakes, kill switch, stop bike, thank fork.
Get fixed, swap parts, thanks Chass, top bloke, get scrut'd, sign on, feel sore, eat burgers, kee-bab, drink wine, happy chappy. Hit hotel, hot shower, hmmm hmmm, that's good, feed Harry, sleep well.
Race Sunday
Up early, aching bones, hot shower, that's good, drink tea, read paper, get nervous, outside world, pizzzing down, oh shirts, load up, hit circuit.
SoT Qually (DD practice
)
Get ready, 9am start, SoT qually, deep puddles, johnny suit, tight fit, high pitched!, hit track, very slippy, pootle round, get passed, get passed, get passed, get passed, bloody wets, red flag, fuel down, 5min wait, back out, very wet, slide round, build pace, not bad, good practice, get back, big relief, stayed up, big result, qually time?, don't care, untimed practice, nice one.
DD qually
10 thirty(ish), up front, there early, out first, step up, drive on, more grip, much better, feel good, press on, dry line, drying out, very windy, build up, back markers, overtake, lose momentum, press on, getting blocked, oh well, session end, get back, drink tea. Check result, 4th spot, front row, mission accomplished, quite happy, wait hours, 4 hours, eat food, talk shiit, think shiit, waste time. Clearing skies, drying track, very windy, dry track?, maybe so, hope so.
DD race
Dry track, front row, inside line, get set, ride out, warm up, check track, very dry, lucky fuggers, line up, where's Pete, Pete Yates, 2nd place, no sign, schoolboy error, red light, feel calm, strangely calm, focused mind, revs up, lights out, nail it, drop clutch, bog down, oh sheet, drive on, brake late, no brake, Red-gate, round 7th, real bad, hit craners, flat out, pass 2, brake hard, turn hard, drive hard, hairpin, get going, schwantz curve, drive hard, Mcleans, run deep, too deep, hook turn, drive on, hit Coppice, turn early, rumble strip, keep pinned, knee down, way down, get down, head down, press on, get past, Anthony E, Chemical Ali, in 3rd, look up, where's Dom, where's Glen, a gap, little gap, make mistake, redgate, don't like, lose time, bigger gap, press on. Lap 2 in 3rd, stay 3rd, more laps, press on, can't catch, front 2, lap 8, still 3rd, then Kyle, from where, annoying git, passes me, into redgate, get back, at Craners, flat out, woooo hoooo, big nuts, get third, keeping it, block line, swap places, with Kyle, me first, then him, then him , then me, many times, great battle, first yellow, across line, must be, press on, lap 10, in third, main straight, under bridge, wrong gearing, 7th gear, looking for, can't find, no shiiit!!, in front, see wheel, Kyle's wheel, inside line into Goddards, drive up, gonna crash, block pass, cheeky get, brake deep, can't turn straight on, brake hard, keep black, lost secs, vital secs, get going, Kyle gone, now 4th, look back, big gap, look forward, big gap, push hard, no good, 4th place, no podium, feel bad, worked hard, not happy, fair result, see me
. Got back, ****sssed down, bullet dodged, drank tea.
Overall
Being unsatisfied with 4th means I'm getting to where I want to be, I'd worked hard for a podium and was out-raced, nice one Kyle.
Congrats to Glenn - shame your quitting (not!!!), Domski was boring as usual
, nice one fella.
Congrats also to Chris, Phil and Griff in the shallow end
.
Tough battles all round.
Personally I was pleased to see Kev Mooney get a great qualifying place and very glad to see Jon Williams out racing and keep her upright.
'til Snett......
Tim