In his latest update for Crash.net, rising 250 GP star Chaz Davies reviews the sixteenth and final round of the 2005 world championship; the Valencia Grand Prix – an event which would begin with some four-wheel BMW track time, before set-up and engine issues with his GP machine produced a disappointing end to the season...
After the Turkish GP it was nice to come home since I’d been away for just about 7 weeks. The only thing that I wasn’t enjoying too much was the weather! It pretty much rained everyday I was home until I had to leave for Valencia.
Another thing was that it was getting dark much earlier than when I left for the fly away races. I went out cycling one early evening (admittedly quite late) and I’d only been riding for 20minutes and I was having to squint my way through the darkness! But that aside home is home and it was good to see friends and family and ride my minibikes etc again!
We left for Valencia on Wednesday before the GP and arrived in the early evening. We went straight to our rented villa that we stayed at last year, which was about 20 minutes away from the circuit near the town of Bunol where they have the huge annual tomato fight (which is something I’ve been wanting to do for the last few years and will definitely do one day).
On Thursday afternoon we went to the circuit and looked over the data from last year and from testing this year, which were both very successful outings and the bike setup that we were going to start the weekend with was exactly the same we had used in the test in February.
On Thursday afternoon there was a BMW test where all the riders and the team personnel are free to try any car in the BMW range apart from the ‘M’ series car.
They had the ‘M6’ there which obviously everybody wanted a go in but instead you had to sit in with either the
MotoGP safety car driver or a lady who has the fastest female time around the Nurburgring.
