| WeeJohnyB | 11-Feb-2006 20:15 |
Yes of course you will....dream on....if you win a scheduled proper DD race in 2007 I'll give you £100 mate;)
Now that's not to say anyone can't improve, of course they can, I'd like to think I could win a decent race one day. I won a CB500 race and had plenty of second places and got a third on Montys TZ once, but if I do step up to Superclub 600's as is sort of my weak-willed plan for 2007, I am 10 seconds a lap behind the winner and in all honesty if I gave up my job and spent all year on the one track, I still wouldn't make up 10 seconds. We can't all win, simple as that.
All I'm saying is be real about your goals, sure 'dare to dream', 'reach for the stars and you might just hit the moon', but if one sets oneself up for achieving things that are beyond us, then we're going to live an unfulfilled life. Just my personal realistic outlook on life.
If you're totally crap and just started out, sure, you have a chance of knocking big chunks off your times and move up the field. In my first ever race I was 16th out of about 25 and by the end of the season I got a second place and very nearly won (I didn't know I was leading the race:mad:). However, my thoery is that once you get to a level, you are pretty much where you will always be, so me gaining so many places ina year is one thing, but then the following year, my times were all pretty much the same.
Take Jerez this year. Best I've done is a 2.04 on my old 748 three years ago. Not bad for a standerd 748E, then last year I had my new 600RR, but only manged a 2.05 as it was my first timeon it and I didn't push it as it was so shiney and I'd spent a lot of cash on it. This year I was seriously going for a sub 2 minute, but the weather and my mood were not up to it. Then some bloke did a 1.53 on a 600RR.....I'm simply not in the same league and never will be.
WeeJohnyB | 
