04/06/2025
Round 3 - Croft
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Friday Testing: solid test day, straight onto PB pace and only made a few changes through the day. Focused on carrying speed and improving line choices.
Quali: arrived a little late to the box and subsequently got on track in heavy traffic. Couldn’t get a clear run for the whole session until the final lap, I was behind another rider in sector 1 but got through and ran a solid sector 2 and 3 putting in a ⏱️ 1:27.07 placing me P2 on the grid.
Race 1: didn’t get quite the start I wanted and over rode the bike in the early laps trying to get into P2, I ran a good pace despite not hitting my markers and put in a 1:26.4 early on which I am happy with. My pace dropped a little as I couldn’t get settled and then when I hit lapped traffic later on I didn’t make a good job working through them. On the final lap I was passed for P3 by another rider and came home P4. A good ride but poor race management have to take the positives from this one.
Race 2: a downpour before put us out on wets, the track was very patchy and the start was delayed. I got away well and held P2 until the lead rider high sided out of the chicane. It looked as though he was going to stay in the track so I sat up and hit the brakes, couldn’t scrub speed fast enough and ran off track for a low speed tip off and a DNF. This is racing and I would rather this than have risked hitting another rider on track.
Race 3: starting from the back of the grid following a DNF I made it up to 5th in class battling through slower riders from start to finish. A fun ride although I would like to have gone a little further but I got unlucky with traffic a few times and the cards didn’t fall my way on the day.
Overall not the results I wanted at Croft but I’m very happy with the pace and set up we have found with the bike and enjoying my riding most importantly 🏁