I think my body has almost finised drying out now! It was WET!
I was really looking foward to this round, I knew that with the long circuit I would be in with a shot as some decent results because it removes one of the large straights where the 600s and 1000s pull away from the 250cc machine of mine, And includes a lot more corners where I can use the cornering advantage of the 250 over the bigger heavier bikes.
At the beginning of the day it was a bit questionalble to wether it would dry out more or get wet, but the huge black lingering cloud was a bit of a give away to what was going to happen.
F2 Supersport Qualifying:
By now it was nice and wet, well wet enough to warrant the need for wet tyres.
I headed out getting the feel for things, one was that I was riding like crap! I ran wide far to many times and was in the wrong gear a couple of times.
After a couple of laps I tried my best to some clean laps and sort my head out. One corner I was really struggling with was the long left hander back onto the old circuit from the new one. You can't take it as one corner and I was having trouble setting up reference points to get a consistent line around there. Oh well, something to work on.
Qualified second behine Nick Cole and with Johnny right behind me.
I got some 'interesting' looks when I went to the race office to get my grid, and found out I qualifyed second, I couldn't contain a exlamation of happiness.
http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=929234
F1 Superbike Qualifying:
After the good buzz of the supersport qualifying I was looking foward to the superbike qualifying. Although I did make a concious effort to not let it affect my mental state when I was on the track, I know the feeling of getting cocky and paying for it all to well! This qualifying went well, getting the corners more sorted and setting up braking markers and reference points which would pay to be priceless later in the day.
I didn't exect to qualify as well as I did in this one either, I have never qualified well, so it was very suprising to find out I qualifyed first! Unbelieveable!
http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=929233
Supersport Race one:
Unfortunatly for Nick who was supposed to be on poll had crashed in the superbike qualifying, and either decided not or was not able to join in the supersport race, this meant that I would be the first bike on the grid. First time i've ever been the first bike on the grid!
I got and ok start, unfortunatly wheelspun a little off the line which killed a little of my drive. Into turn one I passed back a couple of the bikes that had passed me leaving Sloan and Johnny infront of me, I think I passed Sloan into the hairpin, I'm not quite sure though. After then I was try to catch back up with Johnny. It was all good and well catching up with him, but his bike seemed to steam like nothing before which obviously meant I couldnt see where I was going when I was close (this is the part where brake markers and reference points were vital!) We battled hard, and I was pretty scary out there in those sorts of conditions. Johnnys a hard racer that doesn't give any ground which makes for a lot of fun when applying overtaking manuvours. We touched a couple of times, one on the second 90 degree right hander of the new circut was a bit dicey. As the rear of my bike contacted him it caused me to break traction and get a little out of shape but all was well and we kept going! Final lap second to last turn I put the most hairy move yet, I went round the outside of him on the fast left hander. I lost grip from both wheels at certain parts of the turn which was a bit hair raising! I held a tight line coming into the sweeper to stop Johnny going up the inside of me, sure enough his front wheel appeared rubbed a little and dissapeered! I put my head down and hoped the the little 250 would be able to hold his 600 off untill the line which it did. Unfortunatly this was because Johnny had crased exiting the sweeper. Gutted for him, he most likely would have had me if he had stayed on and powered past me.
http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=929239
What a race and to come home with the win (even if the meeting was canceled and we don't get points) was something I never ever expected when deciding to race the 250 in the two premier classes.
Huge thanks to Stevey for again his damned hard work with the MotoAcademy team. Best thing I could have ever done for my racing was joining that team.
Thanks to my Dad who hung around in the pits helping out and giving me support!
To all the compeditors! What a bunch of dudes!
And finally the VMCC crew who organise these meetings, and marshall etc. Tough job in those conditions. Thank you all SO much.
Cheers,
-Glen Skachill #10
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Good on you matey!!!
Karma ... Justice catches up eventually !! 
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