06/06/2018
Cadwell Park.........started off the weekend with a very successful test day, Petes times were good hitting 1.34s pretty much all day and feeling good on the bike despite this being only his 1st full weekends racing at Cadwell Park . Qualifying was going very well ,Pete was sitting in 4th place for much of the first half of the session again with times of mid 1.34:s but he crashed out of the session and dropped down to 8th on the grid, still pretty respectful considering his lack of experience here. Team Riches then spent the next few hours frantically rebuilding the bike which had quite a lot of damage getting him on the grid for race one with 5 minutes to spare, but it wasnt to be ..his throttle was jamming and he had to pull off the grid.Race 2 the bike just didnt feel right after the crash and he finished way down in the points .By race 3 the whole weekend so far had taken its toll on Pete and the bike and he was way down the pack and after getting pushed off track by another rider it rounded off a pretty unsuccessful weekend as far as points go but Pete has come away feeling pretty good that he has learnt a lot and put in some pretty good times. We would like to thank Len Sharp for his contribution this weekend which goes a long way to making this possible and is much appreciated, Team Riches ... Steve Riches, Mark Riches Tony Riches for getting the bike back on track and Sandra Riches and Zena Riches for manning the pitboard and all the rest of what it takes to keep Pete on track.
We now look foward to Mallory Park and the next few tracks which are some of Petes favourites