SDA Rd.1 Innerleithen
On Friday I walked the track for the first Scottish Series race of the year. The organisers did a really good job with taping out the track, they decided to use the gold run, a flat out track with some pretty sick sections, there was were some cool turns, and some good breaking bumps which always make it a bit more fun for riding!
I woke up on Saturday morning to the rain on my window, it had been raining quite a lot in the night so I got out the RRP and headed up for practice. The track was quite muddy and slick but it was still running really fast which was good. I did a couple of runs in the morning and then some in the afternoon after the track had roughed up a bit.
The track was quite long with a lot of turns to remember but luckily I’ve ridden at Innerleithen quite a bit, so memorising the track wasn’t an issue! On Saturday night it rained even more but throughout the day on Sunday the rain held off so the track started to dry out but the mud got thicker and the track got a little slower.
In my first race run I had a pretty smooth run apart from smashing my knee off of my stem right before the pedally section at the bottom!After the first runs I was sitting in 2ND with a time of 3.03. My second race run was pretty smooth with just one mistake in the middle section, and I ended up getting the exact same time so I finished in 2nd Place which was a good solid start to the 2012 Scottish series!
JC