thundersport cadwell park

[jason douglas]

well after Mallory bike pros and not getting to race we moved on to call this is a circuit i love we arrived for practice on Saturday it was wet the bike felt really good bridgestone wets working great no problems with bike it was working well. We moved on to Sunday weather was cold and there was a wind found it hard to keep temperature up in bike so qualifying was not so good the bike felt slow on the straight but in and out corners was very strong. On the first qualifier i was in 17th with a 1.49 the pole was 1.43 so i could see i had work to do. In the second session i got my lap time down to low 1.46 i had to pull in to pit lane no temperature in bike so got some duck tape on to the rad and off i went but when i came back on track their was no one to get on to the back off so that was it 19th on the grid lot off work to do . So in to first race took to the grid the bike was getting relay hot due to being held on grid due to bikes being late to the grid. Then bike's were staling at this point me bike temp went up to 75 deg this is not good but off we go on siting lap got temp down . The race started not good start from me but this was my first real race on the Honda as i had no testing on the bike due to money. in the race bike was was not sounding good at top end but i got the bike up 13th at the end went back to awning spoke to dad he told me we will come down one jet size for next race.

So on to second race 19th on the grid this time go a better start again bike felt good in corners but not on the straight fought my Wat threw to finish in fifth place happy with that.My lap time went down to 1.40 the fastest lap time was a 1.39 so we were going in the right direction. bike still not right top end so we came down on the jetting and dropped one tooth off the back sprocket for the next race i am still learning the bike as we went to standard Honda cylinder an head due to the problems we had a Mallory park.

here we go last race we take to the grid this time i got a great start buy the time i went in to the mountain i was up in to with or sixth in the front pack the bike was working well even on the straight . I moved up in to second place and could see firs place rider so i put my head down then sam hornsey came past i tried to get past him a gain a few times but noticed the leader was getting a bigger gap so i sat behind sam and followed him then on the tenth lap the breaks lever came in the clip on and would not stop so i put it down on the grass not the tyre wall.so that was that got my lap time down to 1.39 which was third fastest so we now move on ???