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The European finals last weekend was a great event to be at, but the weather played a big part in it and we only got 2 runs on the Friday before the rain came and it rained pretty much all day on Saturday. The first run was ok, a 7.4 with slightly off pace 60ft and a lot of wheelspin, which was odd as the track was very good. I changed the setup to hit a lot harder and try and keep the weight transferred to the back wheel. The result on the next run was far from the 6 second ET we needed but was still a personal best by 3 thousandths of a second! a 7.261 at 175mph, into a stiff headwind.
And that's all we got chance to do, the time was good enough to qualify us in 6th out of 12 bikes entered, but without the 6 we wouldn't be in the show.
It was still a good meeting and we had a great time, catching up with people I've not seen for years and talking to an endless stream of people wandering round the pits in the rain bored. We invited anyone in who was interested to take a look at the bike and ask questions. We had stand in noob crew too which made things a little harder but they got the job done admirably and I'm very grateful for their help. So thanks to Peej, Benji, Justas, and Jason for helping set up, get me down the track and packing away again.


3 meetings all separated by just 2 weeks makes up for the race drought in the middle of the summer, but makes for a pretty hectic time. Particularly as other things add to the list of things to do like MOT on the van and my road bike - which I've had to SORN as i just didn't have time to do it.
And in just 1 weeks time we are off to Santa Pod yet again for the National Finals - not the last event of the year for the bikes, that's 3 weeks later in October -the Extreme bike weekend. But it could be a crucial meeting for us as we are currently ahead in the ACU points by a fair chunk. If we can extend or maintain that lead we should be pretty much uncatchable. We have already won the Shakespeare county raceway championship, and would like to secure the Santa Pod one too, but the ACU championship is the big one.