Friday, February 08, 2008
Denmark Euro Rounds
Bit late on the update of this one, I've been a bit ill this week :0(
We arrived friday, the track looked ok but very tame... All the other classes practice before us, so the track got nicely torn up in all the soft spots. After 1 lap, they cancelled practice promising to sort it out for the next day! They used similar tactics to last years race when the corners were too soft, laying down wood and carpet, though this time in the middle of the jumps. It made it waaay better, it was much faster. Not much they could do about the lame design but hey nevermind.
I was feeling good this weekend except struggling with the gate on the flat start hill. I had some good results in the motos all weekend to easily make the semis. Day 1 there was a big hold up while we were on the gate - no crash - just some sort of dispute from a previous race. No one told us what was happening, so we didn't have much warning when the gate was started. I totally blew my gate and finished 6th. Day 2 I had a much better gate in the semi and was top 4 down the start hill, but then I got nudged off balance on the first jump and lost a couple of places whilst trying to stay on... I got back to 5th in the first turn and chased all the way but just missed out on the final.
Next race Douai France in 2 weeks from now. Looking forward to this one, from the plans it looks like a typically french technical track! :o)
We arrived friday, the track looked ok but very tame... All the other classes practice before us, so the track got nicely torn up in all the soft spots. After 1 lap, they cancelled practice promising to sort it out for the next day! They used similar tactics to last years race when the corners were too soft, laying down wood and carpet, though this time in the middle of the jumps. It made it waaay better, it was much faster. Not much they could do about the lame design but hey nevermind.
I was feeling good this weekend except struggling with the gate on the flat start hill. I had some good results in the motos all weekend to easily make the semis. Day 1 there was a big hold up while we were on the gate - no crash - just some sort of dispute from a previous race. No one told us what was happening, so we didn't have much warning when the gate was started. I totally blew my gate and finished 6th. Day 2 I had a much better gate in the semi and was top 4 down the start hill, but then I got nudged off balance on the first jump and lost a couple of places whilst trying to stay on... I got back to 5th in the first turn and chased all the way but just missed out on the final.
Next race Douai France in 2 weeks from now. Looking forward to this one, from the plans it looks like a typically french technical track! :o)
# posted by Joey : 2/08/2008
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