In his latest update for Crash.net, rising 250 GP star Chaz Davies reviews rounds eight and nine of the 2005 world championship; the British Grand Prix at Donington Park - Chaz’s home race - and the German Grand Prix at Sachsenring - both events which would end in painful disappointment, but before that there was a trip to the Tour de France...
Well things have been pretty much non stop for me in the last month. After the Dutch GP I went home and for our first month long break of the year. Whereas
MotoGP gets to go to Laguna we get to sit at home and watch it on the TV, great...!
Aside from all the bumps and the bit too close walls it looked a really cool track and properly suited to 125/250s. It looked a right handful on the bigun’s! Fair play to Hayden as well, he was on it all weekend.
Tour De France
The first two weeks of our break I clocked up quite a few miles on my road bicycle and was addicted to watching the Tour de France which started on July 3rd. Like I said in my Assen update, the plan was to drive down to the French Alps and watch the main mountain stages.
So on the 10th I loaded up my bike, sleeping bag, all the essentials, e.g. energy bars, tools for the bike including spare tyres/tubes and that was about it. I set off from home on the Sunday night and drove to Dover to catch the ferry across to Calais. Just to drive to Dover from my house is 4 - 4 ½ hours!
I caught the next available ferry which was at 1.45am, slept on the ferry a bit, drove until about 4.30am the other side and then found some services and slept for a few hours in the back of the car. My car is pretty good because all the seats come out so I left the back seats at home and the front passenger seat and I could stretch out perfectly!
