I was unsure how this weekend was going to go, the weather apps forecasted weather changed on a daily basis. It was dry and sunny when I loaded up on Thursday evening, but I packed the wets and stuck in a spare pair too (just in case).
Friday was warm and dry, so I headed off in a positive mood. I had high hopes for this weekend as I was running in my main class of Ultra where I would be competing with garage buddy Simon, as well as the Powerbikes class where our whole garage crew would be competing. I was hoping to tag onto the guys and get a good tow and take a few seconds off my lap times.
The journey to Snett wasn’t promising, driving through a couple of big rain storms, when I got to the circuit the sun was out, but by the time I had set up and signed on, the rain had come.
Testing was just wobbling around with wets on to make sure the bike was running OK.

Sat
Woke up to blue skies but the clouds were coming, my qualifying session was about 10:15 ish I still had wets on, I actually hoped that it would rain so I didn’t have to change the wheels. Jezza came in from his qualifying and called it dry so the garage went crazy changing wheels. I kept on wets as there were still loads of standing water. Wobbled around just to set a time.
My 1st race was Ultra just after lunch, and very wet, glad I kept the wets on. Felt very stiff and nervous as it was 1st race of the year, but managed to finish the race, quite a bit off the pace.

Powerbikes race 1
It was still spitting, and then whilst waiting in the holding area a downpour.
On the warm up lap, I couldn’t see a thing so pulled in and sat out the race, turns out there were 10 fallers in the race.
Due to the amount of crashes in the races, the timetable was behind so Ultra race 2 was carried over to Sunday.

Sun
Ultra Race 2
The rain had stopped but the ground was still wet, so wets it was. Got a good start, but was overtaken during the race as I was too slow, came home 22nd.

Ultra Race 3
Finally dry and warm (ish)!!
On with the dry wheels, and a new rear tyre. Got a good start taking a few places, but the lack of laps, plus all the mucking about with settings, the bike felt a bit wallowey. Came home 22nd

Saw Matt Wren about my suspension, and dialled in a new setting ready for the powerbikes in two races time.

Powerbikes Race 2
Got a OK start, took 2 places, and managed to stay on the back of my garage chum for the race, managed to take 6 secs off my weekend best time bike felt much better. Came 11th in class.

Ultra Race 4
Got a good start and took 5 places, but just wasn’t aggressive enough and lost all but 2 in the first few corners. Managed to take 5 seconds off my grid time and finished 19th in class.

Powerbikes Race 3
My best race of the weekend! Got a good start, but a collision in front meant I had to take avoiding action so I lost drive and places.
Stayed with the next two riders for a few laps and took no 66, who then got back past me. Managed to take no 274, but got lapped by the leader on the last corner so was denied my last lap. Brought it home 12th in class.
Looking forward to Donny to improve.

Shouts out to Andy receiving the rider of the day award for fantastic riding in the Powerbike race in atrocious conditions.

Thank you to Tracy Fagg, the garage gang, everyone Bemsee and all the supporters / sponsors.