Chaz checks in: Shanghai.

Saturday, 7th May 2005

In his latest update for Crash.net, rising 250 GP star Chaz Davies reviews round three of the 2005 world championship; the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix at Shanghai, which saw the Aprilia Germany privateer lose out on a potential top five finish through no fault of his own...

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I crawled around the rest of the lap and then pulled in the box at the end of the lap. The team were obviously well disappointed and immediately started looking for answers as to what went wrong. After stripping the bike there appeared to be nothing wrong so we put it down to water in the electronics somewhere.

It’s was very unlucky and if I was struggling at the back end of the points then it wouldn’t have been so bad but I knew I was in for a top 5… or crash, but at least I’d have been pushing.

All in all it wasn’t a bad weekend with qualifying and it’s left me confidant for Le Mans. It’s a circuit where I seem to go well at so I hope it continues. Between now and then I will be back at home and I am going to buy a road bicycle hopefully and then maybe when I get a bit of time off, do some racing on that. It should be good fun.

That’s all for now and I hope I have better things to report the next time I write!

Chaz#57