The team were also pleased with the result. It’s also good for the privateer championship as neither Debon or Guintoli finished, so I gained some points back on them.
On Monday I left the circuit in the afternoon with Shakey (Byrne) and his friend Wag in his motor home. Shakey had already pre-booked the ferry from Genova to Barcelona and asked me if I wanted to come with him so I jumped on the band wagon. You’re always guaranteed a good laugh with Shane, and his mate Wag is pretty out of control so it was highly amusing!
My team-mate, Martin, rang me on Tuesday night and asked me if I wanted to go Supermoto riding the following day so I took him up on the offer. I was up pretty early Wednesday morning and met Martin. We then went to meet a bunch of his mates and then loaded up his bike, a Suzuki RMZ450, and headed for a track about 1 hour away.
The weather was seriously hot and the circuit looked very cool. I’m only used to riding on my dad’s track, which is quite a bit different, so it was a nice change for me. Martin and I shared his bike and were doing pretty similar times. The track had a really good layout, but it was quite slippery and bumpy compared to my dad’s. We rode for about 4-5 hours and we were all pretty stuffed by the end of the day.
On Thursday I did some laps around the track with Casey again, and an Italian TV commentator was racing us! Two years ago he turned up in the paddock on crutches and in casts from head to toe! He broke his leg in two places, arm, collarbone and some other stuff that I don’t remember in a scooter crash and after riding with him we could see why!
After looking over last year’s data and the data from the test here, it was time to head to the hotel and get an early night.
