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Oulton Park Results
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Qualifying: 9th 2:08.64
Race 1: 8th 2:04.35
Race 2: 6th 2:05.26
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I'm out next weekend at Jurby Road on the ZX6RRRR I'm riding in the
Manx GP. Should be interesting,
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What's happened to the gixxer six, then?
Oh, and 'pahnd', as no-one else seems to have noticed.
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As in the Chinese curse sense?
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heh. Perhaps. I've never ridden the bike before, and I have a
significant vested interest in it being good. If it goes well, then
I'll be well set up for the MGP. If it doesn't it's going to be a
real downer.
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Personal best for bike and hill today at Loton . Within 2 tenths of the
road legal R1 on the first timed run [1](who had already done four runs
yesterday in similar conditions unlike me BTW). Then it rained and I was
faster on a still slightly damp track than he was but to no avail
points-wise.
[1] also within 3 tenths of my PB for this hill on any machine, so I may
not hang my boots up at the end of this season after all.
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What a talented bunch we are!
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We were first out in qualifying, and it had rained overnight
so there were still some wet patches around, hence the relatively
slow qually time.
By the time the first race came up it had been sunny almost all
day, so the track was nearly perfect. I got a blinding start but
was mugged as the "fast boys" disappeared from the off - I'm still
suffering from post-mallory-ejection stress and can't get my head
around going so fast so quickly. I was catching up on 7th place
but just didn't quite make it.
Second race was almost a repeat but got red flagged after 2 laps,
so we lined up again on the grid, so be told we were doing 7 laps
from the off. As our original race was only supposed to be 7 laps,
and we'd done one out lap and 2 race laps, I was worried about
having enough fuel as we run it quite tight. Luckily (or not)
the race was red flagged on the last lap and the results done on
a countback to the previous lap.
So a couple of good results which have put me back up to 7th in
the championship.
Next is Castle Doom^H^H Combe on 28th & 29th July.
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Best of luck. Hope you've got back on your pace by then.
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