I bought my bacon butty at the rustically named 'Cottage Grill' fast-food shack here at
Thruxton. There was brown sauce available in a grubby looking plastic bottle on a shelf. A coffee - just the instant stuff in a plastic cup - cost £1.20. So £4.20 for the two. Fair price? I'd say £2.50 max.
What do
Crash.net visitors think of racetrack food? Or am I just being stingy?
Sunday AM - Who will be BSB's Jorge Lorenzo?
I phoned Shane Byrne earlier this week, and found him walking his dog on a mountain in Spain. The 31-year-old Airwaves Ducati rider now spends most of his time there or in Switzerland, one of the rewards for being a star in the Bennetts British Superbike series.
Byrne reckoned that the two days of practice and qualifying at
Brands Hatch earlier this month, before snow wiped out the first day of racing in the championship, only reinforced what he had learned about the 1098 and the same-for-all Pirelli tyres as he had during earlier testing in Spain.
"During practice I could go as fast on my 25th lap with the same tyre as someone going out with a fresh tyre. That's what we wanted to achieve - consistency," he said.
Byrne has recorded his second pole of the season at Thruxton, and starts as co-favourite for the title with Leon Haslam, HM Plant Honda's highly experienced 24-year-old. But will there be a
Jorge Lorenzo - a maverick who shatters every pre-season forecast - in BSB?
If there's going to be one, it's most likely to be Cal Crutchlow, the 22-year-old HM Plant rider who claims he's on a two-year mission to win the BSB title. 2007 was his first season, and it passed without a win, so Crutchlow has to deliver victories early in the season if he's going to achieve his target.
If it sounds a bit of a mouthy ambition, remember that Lorenzo hadn't even raced a
MotoGP bike before this year, and now leads the points table in his series.
