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6-7
Sept 2003 中國珠海摩托車賽第4場
趣味花邊
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Nick Winthrope Racer's report |
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I pitched up on Thursday morning,
there were a few issues with my GSXR1000 that needed careful
attention and I wanted to be well ready for Friday practice.
On Friday morning I did a couple of practice sessions. The
bike felt good with the set up I had but it has started to
jump out of 5th gear, not so unusual for a 3 year old race
bike, anyway I was feeling good and confident that I was
going to Kick Jimbo's arse in the race on Sunday.
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however, disaster struck! Jimbo was buried in the tyre wall
at turn one! (Click
here to
see Jimbo racer's report) I stopped in the pit lane and then made my way
over to the crash site. What a mess, Jimbo looked like a mud
wrestler the marshals and Steven Tsui were digging him out.
The bike was outside of the circuit but Jimbo seemed
relatively OK, still talking and moving, thank God.
Saturday
Qualifying went well; it was raining so I used the time to
practice my wet riding skills. I have only raced once before
in the wet and that was in 2001 but I found it quite easy
really, just needed to concentrate harder on what I'm doing.
Results from qualifying; Pole for the open class, 5th for
600SS class, times were 1:54 and 1:56 |
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Sunday
I didn't bother with warm-up as I felt ready to race and I
wanted to relax a bit, stay cool.
Race 1, Open Class. Paul why got a good start and went into
the lead at turn 1, I think I was about 4th overall the. My
main objective was to stay on the bike so I didn't try to
keep up with the leaders. Half way through the race a couple
of 600's came past but my confidence was growing so I pushed
to get back past them. I came second behind Paul why and
third overall, I later learned that I had put up the fastest
lap of the race, I'm really happy about that. |
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Race 1 600SS class; I came in 6th after a good
battle with Jimbo, we were really having fun which was good
considering he'd had such a big crash on Friday. Actually Jimbo
would have beaten me if he was fully fit, still, we both enjoyed
it a lot. |
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Race 2, Open Class; I was looking forward to
this one, the track condition was dry except for a small river
running across the track at turn 7. I got a good start and led for
the first lap. Huang Shi Zhao got past on lap 2 so I decided to
follow him for a few laps to see where he was faster than me. On
lap 5 I pushed harder and took the lead back, by lap 9 I had a 4
second lead which was cool so I slowed down at turn 14 and pulled
a wheelie across the line, just like Rossi ha ha ha. Very Happy. |
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Race 2 600 SS class; A bit boring really,
finished 6th, Jimbo didn't start as he was feeling pretty bad so
we could re-inact our epic battle. It's going to take a lot more
work to get up to speed on the GSXR600, need to work a lot on the
bike set up as well as a different riding attitude. |
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