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Old 18-Jul-2005, 15:39
Garry Smith Garry Smith is offline
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Pembrey Results.......

Hi All,

Just got back from Pembrey where we were racing on Saturday and Sunday, bit of a weekend of mixed fortunes....

Saturday - Race 1: Managed three laps before the bike suffered a fuel starvation problem and went on to one cylinder forcing me to retire whilst running in fifth place, DNF.

Frantically went through all the obvious stuff, changed the tank,pump, filter etc. checked for kinked fuel pipes and got it all back together for Race 2 (the points race) my DNF from the first race meant I started from the back of the grid, bike seemed fine apart from a slight hesitation on the last lap, result 5th. Lap Time 1.02.0 - This was encouraging as my goal was to get into the 1.01s and I was now confident I would do this on Sunday.

Sunday - Race 1: Got a slow start initialy off the line but managed to find a gap through the riders in front once I was rolling towards the hairpin and was away with the leading pack, a couple of laps in two riders tumbled at the hairpin in front of me, I managed to avoid them and was now in second, got my head down until two or three laps later when all of a sudden the fuel starvation problem re occurred, looked behind and I had pulled out a very large gap on the following pack so decided to just try and get it home to preserve some sort of grid place, two laps later Phil Bevan came past and I managed third.

Race 2 - Off the line for the warm up lap all fine and then driving out of the hairpin it just died, consequently as we came back round to the grid I pulled in to pit lane and did not start the race - another DNF and no points.

Very disappointed, but hopefully we'll be ready for Donnington next month where I will be racing with New Era Superclub and NG.

Put it into perspective a bit when my mate Deano came back from hospital with a broken shoulder, 3 cracked ribs and a mangled hand following a crash in practice - best wishes for a rapid recovery mate
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