In his latest update for Crash.net, rising 250 GP star Chaz Davies reviews rounds twelve and thirteen of the 2005 world championship; the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang and Qatar Grand Prix at Doha - which would see the 18-year-old collect a solid points score, but be hampered by mystery mid-race fatigue...
After the Japanese Grand Prix we left Motegi on the Sunday night for Tokyo where we stayed in a hotel close to the airport ready for a flight on Monday afternoon. We flew from Tokyo to Singapore which was about 6 ½ hours and then from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, which was about 45minutes.
As normal the weather in Malaysia is the first thing you notice as soon as you get out of the air-conditioned airport. It’s normally mid to high 30s but with 100% humidity and you feel it as well, but it’s a good warm up for Qatar.
On Tuesday I went running in the morning in the bushes that surround our hotel for miles. I was a bit scared because it was properly tropical brush, the sort of place where you’d expect a few snakes to be hiding out! There was a couple of times where I heard a slight noise and just leapt as far as possible but didn’t see any. It was a good run, sweating like crazy!
In the afternoon my team-mate David, his friend Johann and I went into Kuala Lumpur to do a bit of sight seeing and do the normal Malaysian ritual of buying loads of fake DVDs etc etc! We tried to do the tour where you get to go up the Petronas Twin Towers but it was fully booked which was a bit gutting. They are seriously impressive and I never get bored of looking at them!
On Thursday we went to the circuit, looked over last year’s data, went for a run around the track and then went back to the hotel.
Friday started really well. I felt good and the bike felt pretty good and it didn’t take me long to get down to decent times at all. I did a 2mins 11.0secs at the end of the session which matched my best lap time from the whole weekend last year.
