What a great weekend, round
1 of the Thundersport GB championship at Brand Hatch, and
thankfully the weather was on our side and we missed the rain!
It was my first race weekend in the Sportman Elite stock
600 class, and I didn't know who I'd get on. I exceeded my
own expectations in qualifying, finishing 5th (49.212)
behind Tom (49.059).
This gave me some good confidence for race 1, starting on
the second row of the grid. I made a poor start and lost a
few places into turn one, but over the race I made my way
back up 7th (4th in class).
Race 2, I started from grid 7, after 6 laps the race was
restarted due to an incident. I made a better start, and
finished 6th in the race (3th in class), my first podium,
with a time of 49.066 - I really wasn't expecting this
result in my first weekend on a 600!
Race 3, I finished 8th (6th in class), a great battle
through out the race, but I tired towards the end losing
time - I'm going to work on more fitness before the next race.
Overall a great weekend, with some solid results, plenty
to take away from the weekend and loads more to work on
before round 2 at Donington Park in April.
The weekend before we was at the Dublin Motorcycle and
Scooter show in Ireland, doing Flat Track demonstration
races. A great opportunity to perform and show off our
sponsors to the huge crowds.
Today we had a couple of hours off work to ride some flat
track with Leon Haslam and Sam and Alex Lowes which was
awesome, as part of a feature in the new MCN Sport Magazine.
I'm out on the road racer again this weekend, still not
decided where, but I'll let you know how I get on!
Kind Regards,
Tim