Points, pics and placings
11 Aug 2010
Updated points tables, photo galleries and results are now online. Check them out around my website. More photos to follow.
Cadwell race three
08 Aug 2010
I won! And my friend Sam rode amazingly in the first CB500 race to get third in an incredibly exciting ten-bike battle. He was also promoted to second in yesterday’s race after several riders were found to be cheating. We’re all so proud and happy for him. In my race I got a great launch […]
Cadwell qualifying
07 Aug 2010
Second – by 0.18s! The pace is scorching here with the top three all in mid 1m36s. Chris Matthews pipped me in the last few seconds of the session to take pole. Andrew Plaskitt is third, just another 0.2s behind me. It’s going to be a close and exciting race. Both of them live very […]
Cadwell race one
Third place – even though I was first over the line. The reason was a 10s penalty I’d picked up for overtaking under a yellow flag. Obviously I hadn’t seen it but it’s been confirmed that it was there so I guess it’s a fair cop. I got away second and stayed there for a […]
Cadwell race two
How do you make sure you can’t get a penalty for overtaking under a yellow flag? Make sure there’s no one to overtake, that’s how. I won by 7s having led from the start. Along the way I set a new lap record of 1m35.72s, a time I wouldn’t have thought possible yesterday. It more […]
Cadwell Park preview
04 Aug 2010
This weekend the ThundersportGB championship returns to Cadwell Park for round six. For me, there will be one crucial difference this time around
Racing at Brands Hatch
23 Jul 2010
I’ve used our summer break between race meetings to pack in some good training and even get in a race on the Brands Indy circuit ahead of ThundersportGB’s visit there mid-August.
Pics, points, TV times
06 Jul 2010
New pics now uploaded to my website, points tables updated, and results PDF added. Check it out.
Oulton Park
26 Jun 2010
The ideal preparation for a race weekend probably doesn’t involve an 80-hour work week, massive sleep debt and a 4am start. It’s unlikely you’d choose to miss the practice day and sole qualifying session on the Friday, as you’d rather not be last on the grid. Nevertheless, that’s the situation I’m in this morning. But […]
Oulton race 1
It seemed especially unlikely, but from 31st on the grid I won the first race. I crossed the line at the end of the first lap in third place and knew then that a win was possible. With the BST wheels fitted, the bike is fantastic. I’ll need to push hard to have a chance […]
Oulton race two
Second. I went faster but Chris was on it from the start and I couldn’t reel him in, so well done to him. More later – 3hr drive home now.
Cadwell race three
31 May 2010
After a difficult start the weather today turned out to be fantastic. The same can be said of my race. From 32nd on the grid I had to battle hard to make up ground but came up smiling with another second place. That was especially pleasing today we’re doing eight laps not nine. I don’t […]
Cadwell race four
After a blinding start and first lap, at the end of which I was already in eighth, the race was stopped for an accident. At the restart not only was my initial hard work undone but, because of the delay, the race was cut to four laps, halving the time I had to make up […]
Cadwell Park
30 May 2010
This weekend will be remembered as one where little went to plan. We’ve just had thunder, lightning, hail and now rain. I had to miss the test and first qualifying because I was working until 2am finishing a magazine deadline on Friday, the end of a 90hr week, then in this morning’s second qualifying I […]
Cadwell race one
I needed binoculars to see the lights from the 11th row and there were so many slower bikes in front of me that I had to keep rolling off to dodge them on the way to the first corner at the start. It was soaking wet too. Somehow I made up 22 places to be […]
Cadwell Park race two
Unbelievably, I was second, from 32nd on the grid! The red mist was down, big time. And just to make it harder, my seat unit broke on the third lap and I rode the rest sat on the battery. My dad, over for a month from Canada and seeing me race for the first time […]
Little things
18 May 2010
It’s always the little things that make a big difference, but often it takes someone else to point it out. Had my bike died a death beyond saving when it mysteriously conked out last weekend in my garage? No, a main fuse, located away from the others and which I didn’t know existed, had blown. […]
Snet race three
03 May 2010
The weather is playing havoc as one shower after another whips overhead in the gale force winds. It rained ten minutes before our race but was drying in places again by the time we went out. I’d been strong in those conditions in second qualifying so I felt confident. Another good start from 13th on […]
