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[antonye]

Good to hear from you Andy, and glad that you're feeling better ... if not 100% just yet!

Not really much I can add to the details, as I was way out in front of you (:P) except that I qualified in 16th, way back on row 4 (ok, so only one row behind you, and got my usual flier up to the front. I know I had gone past quite a lot of bikes, and went past Paul #68 and Tim #21 as well, and tipped it into Coppice up into Charlies.

As I tipped it in, I could feel someone's bar sticking into my right leg, and I knew that it would be their clutch lever as it wasn't half digging in! When we got over Charlies and the red flags came out, we got back to the grid and you weren't there. I was really worried as I know that both you and Paul had been slightly behind/beside me as we went into Coppice and I thought that it was you leaning on my leg, and that was why you had come off.

At the end of the race, Paul had come up to me and said that it was him that had dug his clutch lever in, and was wondering why his bike had gone into neutral as he didn't realise! He made it round and said that you had just gone wide on the corner, and stood it up to go over the grass. Obviously I was quite relieved that I hadn't caused your accident ... at least not directly!

Some of the others further down the field might be able to fill you in on what happened, as they would have seen it as they came through.

Take it easy and love to Bex.