Well I am writing this on Tuesday night, I am still so sore, for such short races on such a short course this event was one of the hardest things I have ever done,
I arrived with Brad (starky307) early in the morning, I had not been up to see the track beforehand, and having a walk around did not instill me with a lot of confidence, I drew heat 6 so at least I got to see some others ride the track first,
Well after watching the first practice and seeing Cam Smith struggle I new was out of my depth, I had ridden a dirt bike 6 times this year (all at events I ran so did not do a lot of riding at them either), I am not very fit and this was dam hard, by this time I was shitting myself,
I was not going to give up tho so I suited up for my practice, and got though ok, it was really hard work and I was panting after the first lap, the section in the middle with the logs, then bins full of rocks and water were the hardest,
The format was a knock out, with an 8 gate start line and the top 4 going though to the next round.
So after the 1st race came up pretty quick, the forwards falling start gate was a new to me but managed to get the holeshot, I got over the log bridge and rocks easily and even though the water troughs without much hassle, onto the off set logs and I did not carry enough speed into the tyres and ended up going down, it took a bit to get going but I ended getting back up in 3rd, I stayed here for the rest of the race struggling with the section with the water.
Onto the quarter final, I got a bad start but all hell broke out on the first log bridge, only 2 guys got over and the rest of us were blocked, Cam Smith had managed to get his bike to the top, I waited to get a clear run where others had tried to push though and got no where, I came over the top in 3rd and kept the pace up as best I could, I was pretty tired early in this one and just tried to keep it up right, with out a whole lot of luck, I broke the clutch lever off but managed to keep 4th and a transfer into the semi final.
With the semi final up I was starting to feel out of the league a bit, I got another bad start and struggled from the first lap, I was not any where fit enough and it was starting to show, I had a couple of bigger crashes and in the last lap I got pretty stuck in the tyres, I was glad to see the checkered flag, I was well out of qualifying, I tried to do a couple of donuts for the crowd but was to tired to get anything to much going,
To everyone that cheered me on thanks, it does help, I saw a lot of KBers there, a huge thanks to the guys from the waitemata m/c club that helped me out everytime I got stuck or was pinned under my bike,
A huge congrats to Rory for the win, the trails boys showed us the fast way around, good luck at Erzberg.
To Chris and the guys from Red Bull congratulations, you guys did an amazing job, I can only imagine the hoops you would have had to jump though to get that to happen in such a prime location. And a big thank you for the bar tab at the after party for the riders.
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