In his latest update for Crash.net, rising 250 GP star Chaz Davies reviews rounds fourteen and fifteen of the 2005 world championship; the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island and the Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul - which would see action and incidents on and off the track, plus two more solid points finishes...
Australia
After the Qatari GP it was time for a 10 day break before the next leg of the fly away races in Phillip Island and then Turkey. During the 10 days we had off I decided a couple of months ago that there was no point in coming home for a few days, then all the way back out to Australia, so I flew from Qatar to Brisbane and met some friends.
It’s the first time that I’ve been to the Gold Coast and you can see why a lot people move there. The weather was spot on and there is so much to do. My original plan was to fly to Brisbane, buy an old car for a few hundred quid and then drive down to Phillip Island, I would have made sense to rent a car but to do that you have to be at least 21-years-old.
I was going to do a bit of sightseeing and spend a couple of days in Brisbane, then Sydney and then just have a steady cruise down to 'The Island' but I was enjoying it a bit too much up at the Gold Coast so I stayed there.
When I went to the Tour De France in July I met a couple of Aussie guys who were seriously entertaining for the week in France and I met up with them where they live just North of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast.
After coming from Malaysia and Qatar with it feeling so hot there you tend to feel a bit invincible when you go anywhere cooler and I got caught out because the sun is a lot stronger in Australia than anywhere else.
I went on the beach at the Sunshine coast and fell asleep for about 40 minutes and got pretty sun burnt. The funny thing was I had my ipod on and I had a really obvious line down my neck where my earphones had been!
