
Onto qualifying on Saturday, and the wind had picked up dramatically - luckily it was blowing clean down the track and helped dry off the mornings rain. It was early afternoon before we got our first run in. the bike left well, but drifted towards the centreline towards the top end and i ended up shutting of early and ran an 8.20. On the second run we added 5% to the nitrous start percentage and that was enough to get that elusive 1.1 60ft (just) with a 1.1992, the rest of the run was good too, it's actually worth selecting 5th gear now as well, whereas before i would only just make 5th before crossing the line. It was also a really good close race with Liz McCarthy, neither of us knowing who'd won. The time was another 7.9 and would be my best qualifying time of the day. The final run which was in the cooler air of the evening looked promising and another improved 60ft, but it failed to shift into 3rd gear and that was the end of that.


Not the way we hoped to spend the evening but by 11pm it was all complete and pretty much ready to go. It ran ok when we tried it in the morning, and so we went out for the first round of elimination. We'd qualified 3rd and so were against no6 qualifier Tony Clark. the last 2 times we've run against Tony he's beaten us and this was to be the 3rd! I had an unbelievable half a second holeshot, and the first part of a good run, but both of us headed left and i had to shut the throttle or cross into the other lane, and at that point Tony came past just before the finish.
Unfortunately, it started to rain just after that and so the meeting came to an end right there.
Quite a good weekend for the Competition Bike class as a whole, only about half a second separating the whole class in qualifying. Possibly the quickest qualifying field for comp ever?
Well done to everyone for making it happen.
All Photos are courtesy of Sam and her new canon 650D ..... fancy! The rest of her photo's can be seen HERE
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