Ok to go by medics … but with the pain we played it safe
SNETTERTON:
Travelling to Snetterton I was not sure if i was going to be able to race after breaking my collar bone at Donington Park.
The first job of the weekend was the medical test to see if I was fit enough to ride which i luckily passed even though it was so painfull.
The team and I had agreed to go out in all the practise sessions and not to do many laps but at the same time make sure I was on good enough pace to qualify for the races. The pain though was so bad when braking for the left hand corner at the end of the straight ment I was braking early and I was losing 27mph to the fastest rider in the corner! The pain in my shoulder was ok going around the long corners and exiting them but again I was losing a lot of time of the chicanes due to trying to throw the bike about.
In qualifying the goal was the same: Get on on the grid and do not crash! I managed to do both of these and like everybody else we were caught out with the rain and only did 12 laps.
Race 1 saw me have an average start and move up some places by the firts turn but by the time we got to the 3rd corner I lost all the places on the brakes that I had gained off the start. For the rest of the race I was in too much pain to be contesting for places so came home with a 5th place in the cup and 22nd overall.
Race 2 was a wet one and with no wet riding before the race it was going to be a tricky one. From lap one there were fallers and all I wanted to do was miss the trouble and bring the bike home, which I managed to do and finish 5th again and 21st overall.
I have slipped to 3rd in the championship and head to the next round at Mallory Park hopefully alot fitter and fully confident of taking 2nd place back .
