Desmodue Round 2 - Mallory Park Sunday 20th May

[harriebird]

am i scared? yup :grin2

am i worried it was all beginner's luck? yup :grin2

do i have a van that goes? ermmm.....nope :shooter

am i excited

too bloody right i am!!!!

hope the sun comes out :grin2

[The Guvnor]

Good luck hun. Sure youll do fine:grin2

[DoodleBug]

Best Of Luck H.

[Dal]

Good Luck Harrie and I'm sure that once you get part the 'scared as hell' your enjoy it ;)

[rembrandt]

Good luck harrie:clap

[MICKTLS]

Good luck Harrie take care

[MellowMatt]

Good luck! :)

[stu600cc]

Good luck Girlie x

Remember lots of rev's and slip the clutch

Make 4 place's on the first bend :jumping2

[becky]

Wahooo, Good luck H

the wheels havent fallen off again have they? LOL

:grin2 :grin2 :grin2

[auroredj]

All the best H, you know we're all rooting for you :laugh2

[harriebird]

thanks everyone, no becky the wheels are still firmly attached :grin2

now that work is out of the way for the week i can concentrate on worrying properly....hehehe no i'm really excited and can't wait. i felt sick as a dog this morning but i'm ok now. well til the next wave of nausea sweeps over me anyway!

hopefully my start will be loads better this time, i'm going to put my other clutch lever back on where i can feel the bite point a bit better (any excuse huh!) and see how i go. i just dont want to stall it :grin2

[Perilous]

Good luck Harrie.

Forget focusing on the start (unless you qualify on the front row;) ) else you'll be all tense and c#ck it up.

Pull away like you're trying to nip into London traffic the concentrate on the first corner.

[Jetski]

Good luck for round 2 :D

Enjoy the hell out of yourself!!!

:)

[becky]

let us no how u got on! :grin2

[DoodleBug]

Now! !

[harriebird]

i didnt get back til 9.25 then by the time i dropped the van off and got home it was 10.15....yawn!

a jam-packed weekend as ever, total chaos on practically every DD session. body count was a broken collarbone (plus severe winding), broken wrist and dislocated thumb.

none of them were mine though.

I started race 1, but it was redflagged a couple of laps in and then restarted twice i think. my clutch boiled itself to bits and gave up waiting at edwinas for the 2nd restart so i had to drop out of that one.

race 2 was similarly chaotic, at one point we were down to 14 on the grid (28 had signed on i think) until a few others appeared. edited highlights - well it wasn't a great weekend for me, but i stayed on and didnt crash and came last in the 2nd race.

but such was the depletion of the field that i actually got a signature for 17th place in race 2 :skip

lots of goods and bads, and again such a steep learning curve, but a brilliant weekend in the end.

managed to say a quick hi to tark but it was a bit hectic in the new team marquee which had to double as a bike hospital as Graeme came off on the first hot lap of timed practice.

race report to follow....:grin2

[Perilous]

but such was the depletion of the field that i actually got a signature for 17th place in race 2

The good thing about last is the only way from there is forward.:)
Anyway any one who starts a race and doesn't get to the end still counts so all the DNFs that started with you finished behind you!

Any race weekend at Mallory where you don't come home via A & E is a good one.:)

[harriebird]

yup, it was definitely a very different experience to Brands, that's for sure! and i felt very lucky to have come back with both me and my bike in one piece.

i was ready for a last place at Brands, so i knew it was going to happen at some point really. i was chasing Gilps all the way round in Race 2 (admittedly he was only one place ahead to start with!), but just didnt have the balls to go past him on the brakes at Edwina's or the hairpin.

by the time the second race had actually got started it all felt a bit strange and i'd lost all my concentration. and by this point so many people had got hurt that i didnt want to risk it. maybe it's not very "racer" of me, but i didnt want to wreck the coming few weeks by having a smash on a circuit that's not one of my favourites anyway. I didnt feel like i did myself justice at all, but i'm glad i came back into the pits on 2 wheels and with all the required limbs in working order.

I've got Donington on Saturday (which I'm really looking forward to, free tracktime!), then Assen, and then the trackday at Snetterton.

[Perilous]

maybe it's not very "racer" of me but i didnt want to wreck the coming few weeks by having a smash on a circuit that's not one of my favourites anyway.

Although I fully admit to racing with broken bones when I needed the points, at the end of the day it is actually only a hobby. If you're not happy don't push it. There's always another day.;)

[stu600cc]

Exactly your not exactly going for gold maybe next season:jumping2

[DoodleBug]

I'd rather finish, than throw a wreck in the back of a van. Its not nice.

[Lateshift]

yup, better to finish safe and with nothing to do on the bike, than to have it chucked in a van and for someone to take home for you :)

Its all track time whichever way you look at it :)

[Perilous]

yup, better to finish safe and with nothing to do on the bike, than to have it chucked in a van and for someone to take home for you :)



I remind you that you said that when you're giving me 'earole for cruising at Pembrey.:grin2

[Lateshift]

And i remind you every time you come back that winning isnt as important as getting back into the pits safe! :D

I give you some latitude on the track especially when there are Palmer brothers nearby but there is cruising and then there is cruising :D

Rubbed paintwork i can live with if its been done getting past someone, but not when its done to make the spanner geezer do some work :D

[Jetski]

Rubbed paintwork i can live with if its been done getting past someone, but not when its done to make the spanner geezer do some work :D

You LOVE being busy :D More paintwork rubbing required then :D (but no crashing, I'm squeamish) :D

Harrie - I agree with what the others have said :D Much better to come home safe, in one peice with a bike ready for next time, than bruised, battered broken and a bike thats going to drain the racing budget :) and possibly lacking in that Harrie positiveness and enthusiasm for next time :)

I found a mere track day daunting at Mallory, so you did cracking finishing a race there :D

I really hope you enjoyed it for the most part nonetheless :)

[stu600cc]

I'd rather finish, than throw a wreck in the back of a van. Its not nice.


yeah done that a few times


She didnt like it :laugh1