After scoring his first ever world championships points with 12th at his home British Grand Prix, 15-year-old Repsol Honda rider Bradley Smith repeated the feat at the following German Grand Prix - and this is how he did it...
Monday after Donington and my first points score, and I’m back at school and into the real life…it was a complete change over from the day before, but good to get back to reality. Some of the guys at school knew that I’d scored my first world championship points at
Donington, whereas some obviously didn’t. But the surprising thing was that some people whom I thought weren’t bothered in actual fact had taken an interest, so that was flattering. My GCSEs are taking place next Spring / Summer so I’m going to end up doing the odd exam at some tracks such as Chaz Davies had to do a few years back, but for the time being I’m cramming in a great deal in order to keep up.
The weekend off was great as I got onto a motocross bike again. We’ve had this Honda 450 CRF sitting in the garage at home since the start of the season. Brand spanking new and never used! A friend popped around and we prepped it up to be ready to ride by Saturday at the local track. Just myself getting back in tune with the off road thing really, not getting caught up in racing or quick laps, just trying different things again in the sport I used to do. My back was hurting a little come the end of it all through the impact of the bumps, but it was good to get back on it.
Going to Germany and the Sachsenring was another new track for me, but the first thing I had to overcome was the sheer temperature of the place. Thursday was so hot - it almost felt as if it was hotter than Qatar - and then I couldn’t believe there was no air con in the hotel room! The weekend off at home saw hot weather in the UK with 29 degrees being the norm, but it was much more humid in Germany and that’s what was uncomfortable. Oh well…
Dani Pedrosa was in the same place so at least it was all the same for us!
Fortunately come Friday it was much cooler. The day actually started off with a short rain shower so that was a great help to take the heat out of the place. Anyway… out on track and the first job was to find a racing line around the Sachsenring. The team had really drummed into me that it was very important to find the best thread. I thought they were going on a bit at first, but even after a few laps I understood what they were getting at.
