Oulton Park, June 2009, Round 4

Unfortunately my will to write Oulton up was interrupted by the sad demise of my friend Shaun Brownsey in a bicycle accident out near his home in Thailand. RIP my old friend.

Was a great weekend and ended up losing a dice every bloody race with the pesky Jennings! It was scorchio the whole weekend, and the format was slightly different to other rounds being a one dayer. To get our usual 4 races a whole 18 of us entered the F400 class, swelling their grid to the point that THEY were able to dual class with the Thunderbikes. Something they were very appreciative of. Glad to help out there boys!

So Friday was much practice - a whole 6 sessions worth by 1pm. In that heat. On that very physical and fantastically grippy track. As my powervalve controller went tits up in session 2 (interesting powerband without one to say the least!) I ended up scrounging one off Ken and missing a couple of sessions. Then there was F400 qualifying in the afternoon. I had my new exhausts so with the loan of a set of tailpipes from Moose I was able to fit them and was rubbing my hands together to see what difference they'd make...

Morning scroot, and then two practices sessions let me know they worked fantastically well, massively torquey and made the bike VERY fast out of corners. Yeehar! Big grins all round. Still hot n humid though!

Race 1 400s came in 22nd, fastest lap of 2:06.4, with a 0.24s split between me and Craig - a big crash in the first lap left a whole heap of people trackside gaining us about 3 spots. Race 9 400s 23rd, fastest lap of 2:03.8; the pesky Jennings got me by 0.3s (with Tony Hoare between us!). Race 7 YPMs 13th and a best lap of 2:04.9; pesky Jennings 0.12s ahead this time. Race 15 15th and a 2:04 dead - pesky Jennings got me by a whole 0.9s (with Chris Wallace and Adrian Grove taking up the slack space between us that time)! That was a battle royal with 6 of us crossing the line within 1.5seconds. That's what I call racing.

Still, I'm now riding with people I didn't have a prayer of keeping up with in the first two rounds so things have come together in a big way and it was proper racing between us all in those groups. Ace and more Ace 8-)

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