First session this morning, was messy, i selected the wrong gear for the burnout, sorted that eventually then made it to the line, went into stage, cracked the throttle open and instead of the revs rising onto the limiter..... it just gassed itself and cut out. And to make it worse i couldn't restart as it's deemed as a run if you get a green light. Which i did.
Next session, only an hour later went much better, bike went straight as an arrow, no funny handling things going on, good launch and a good
new best time and speed of 8.541 @152.9mph.Strangely the bike felt like it was running out of steam toward the finish so i think there may be some improvement to be made there.
The third session and again the bike left well but the nitrous didn't come on. It's a common occurrence, for various reasons but this time it was an intermittent relay which has now been changed. On the return road however we had a bit of an incident where Stuart who was riding the bopchop (i was riding the tow bike) ended up coming off with the bike sliding along the floor and Stuart in heap in the grass! Fortunately he wasn't hurt too badly and the bike has had it's blingy exhaust well and truly un-blinged plus a few other scrapes and bent lever etc. I thought it best to check the bike thoroughly before running it again, so we missed the last qualifier of the day.
Hopefully tomorrow will be as good as today and I'll get chance to do another 8.5 or better!
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