24/01/2021
WA STATE TITLE
Definitely a night to forget for us. It started with going upside down on the first lap of practice (rider error). The boys went to work fixing the broken bits while we went out on the spare bike. As soon as we hit the track we noticed the bike was extremely flat, would not even turn the rear tyre at full throttle. We decided to park it up and focus on the main bike.
First heat it ran ok, the track was super slick after some water so we cruised it home in 2nd place.
Second heat she struggled to come off the line, but seemed to clear up and run fairly reasonable. Another 2nd place.
Heat 3 we managed to get the win but the bike was struggling, it was on and off like a light switch, limped it home.
We went to work stripping and cleaning the fuel system, thinking we had it sorted we took it out in heat 4.
Heat 4 we went from last to first, back to last, back to first, and ended up second. Once we got it back to the pits we realised the fuel pump was stuffed so that was the end of the race bike.
We jumped on the spare bike for the B final, knowing full well we had about 1/2 the horsepower it should have.
It came off the line...just. A lot of clutching to get her moving! From last we managed to roll the inside and claw our way into second, which we were both happy with. From there we noticed the leader continuing to run wide, and we managed to sneak up the inside on the last lap. We held on after a final corner dive bomb to take the win.
Coming out of gate 4 with a bike not running properly was never going to end well, we circulated for a 4th in the final.
Massive congratulations to Darren Nash & Ash Shield on a well deserved win!
After the meeting we realised both the battery and charging system on the spare bike were not up to scratch, so we think that may have been the problem.
I can not that my team enough. My old boy Mick from Road & Race Motorcycles put a ridiculous amount of time, effort and money into giving us the best chance possible to win this meeting. Unfortunately a crash in practice, and some faulty parts lead to a shocker of a night but we are safe and ready to fight again in a few weeks time.
We will come out swinging at the Gittus memorial 👊🏼
Cheers crew 🤙🏼
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