Another good day at the track.
Race 1 - Post Classics Jnr
Qualified 9th (Jnr and Snr bikes) - but was looking at the wrong grid marker, so started almost at the rear of the field. Never mind, got a great start and was up to where I should have been after about half way through the first lap, behind team mate Drew, Barry New and Paul Martindale.
Held this position until the last lap (white flag always brings the red mist down !!) where I got Barry on the right hander before the 'back' hairpin.
I was hoping I could outbrake him and he was just about to tip his bike in when he saw and heard me on the inside.....mwahahaa
Finished 4th in Junior class.
Race 2
Chased Barry and Paul for quite a while then outbraked both of them going into Coke which I was stoked with, but then they both got me back, Barry on middle straight and Paul coming out of Higgins.
Held this position - 5th in this race.
Race 1 - F3 'Superlite'
I like the longer and tighter circuit cause the SV 650's have less of an advantage over my older 4 hundy.
I got a good start and had a great race, even managed to keep ahead of Paul M in this one and chase some of the SV's pretty hard, beating one of them.
Race 2
I was having a great race when the bike started missing at about the half way mark. Pretty sure it was the battery going flat, so I (read Drew) will have to put an alternator back into it or take a charger with me in future. Will also check the fuel pump out but should be nothing major.
Paul M got past me at Higgins and so I chased him hard into the right hander before the back hairpin, where he scraped the exhaust and binned right in front of me. He said he got the red mist after getting past me and could hear me coming back at him and just made a small mistake. It put me off a little, wondering if he was ok, and that with the misfire meant I lost another position to Paul Booth on an SV, right at the line.
Overall another great day at the track. Looking forward to Taupo now, especially as I hear it is a pretty tight circuit also. I think my suspension is pretty rooted, and my bike felt pretty horrible on the bumpy bits, but we're calling that 'feedback'. I will replace the fork oil as it probably hasn't been changed for years, and will have to get the rear shock rebuilt....or replaced with something else.
Best time for the day was 2.10.079. Rapt with that.
Thanks heaps to team mate Fizzerman (Drew), who spent hours fiddling with my shims while I was at the Philip Island MotoGP. No more smoke screen.
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