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ALEX GAULT - MAG SPORT RACING 2007 - Scottish Super Sport 600 Championship
I have got to say this was not very enjoyable, High winds over night meant a severely damaged awning and no sleep for me, and seen us work out of our trailer on race day as the weather was a mixture of sunshine and showers and blustery winds gusting to 50mph.
They say “what goes around comes around”!
I remember finding it very funny when the Kids were baby’s we never made any attempt to be quite when they slept, loud music, telly, I even remember pushing the Hover up to Alex’ head once; when he’d fallen asleep on the floor! “Ho! Ho! Very funny”! He never stirred!
Who’s laughing now? He can sleep through a force 5 Gail, while Dad’s out trying to rescue the Awning at 2 in the morning! J
We were using this meeting to test some tyres we had been using Metzlers and we wanted to try some Bridgestone’s. If you think I can moan? You want to hear Alex when he’s on one! “The Bike was Sh1te”! “Every thing “about it” was wrong”! “It’s slipping about all over the place” Whinge!......... Whinge!............ Whinge!
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Wet Tyres Shredding on the Completely Dry Track |
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He was a mile of the pace in warm up, a few suspension tweaks for qualifying and he got 8th.
Race 1 was? Dry?? ..... Wet???........ Didn’t know which way to go?
We decided on a wet set up and he was back onto the tyres he knew, however WRONG!
It dried through the 12 lap race and by lap 4 it was completely dry, the front 3 had went with a dry set up and stretched there lead Alex held on to finish 4th on a Knackered set of tyres.
Race 2 All the bikes had a dry set up, in the assembly paddock minutes before going onto the track, a down pour!........And the race was declared wet! (This gives every one the chance to change to wet tyres)
So back to the trailer and a frantic change to a wet Set-up, emerging from the trailer I couldn’t believe my eyes. In what?...... Maybe 8 or 9 minutes (the time it had taken us to change to a full wet set-up) it had completely dried…..but was another rain cloud coming?
Every one hates this kind of day. If it’s raining? It’s raining! If it’s dry? It’s dry! This type of weather turns racing into a lottery. I quickly hedged my bets and replaced the rear with a dry pattern, so front wet! Dry rear!
Again in the race, it dried…….. That rain shower never came.
Out front Bob Grant who had gone with a similar set-up to us and Phil Stuart who had went out on a dry set-up. On lap 6 Bob lost the front and crashed out at Scotsman’s corner, promoting Alex to 2nd place, and that’s how it finished.
This was a good run for Alex the front wet tyre was completely Cooked, Alex did very well to finish the race, never mind in 2nd!
A trying and expensive weekend, 4 sets of tyres and an Awning!
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Ken Christie
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