1st race: Success!

Posted by Richo Healey on 20 March 2010 | 46 Comments

Tags: Broadford, race, qualifying

We arrived early at the circuit to be greeted by cold air and dark skies, however by the time 1st qualifying rolled around the sky was clearing rapidly and temps were coming up. We ran 12th fastest out of the combined group of superstock and supersport 600 machines with a 1:06.17 that would ultimately place us 10th on the grid.

We had some stability issues in second qualifying and didn't match our best time from the first session, and so leading into the race we had to decide which way we wanted to jump to clear them up, as obviously going the wrong way would only compound things.

The call was made to drop 2 psi out of the tyres to compensate for the raising ambient and track temperatures, as by this point the sun had well and truly come out.

The bike responded instantly, feeling much more planted on the warm up lap.

We had some issues with the start of the race, some nervousness combined with lack of practice meant that our launch was lacking and many places were lost through turn 1, although immediately the improvement in the bike was evident, and we sought about making up lost time.

Our goal for the first race was to finish better than last and take the bike home in one piece, and we definitely succeeded there!

We finished 12th in the first race this morning, we're looking forward to the other two races tomorrow!