Most of last week was spent preparing for the national race in Dundee. I finally applied the sticker kit, serviced the bike and got everything sorted.
Using only the best!
It was again Hentie and me from Upington that raced, driving close to 1 100km on Thursday.
After the previous race in Lichtenburg, were i didn't finished, we were hoping for better terrain and a proper race.
The day started of overcast and cool, which was actually very nice. The time trial started smoothly, and went OK, except for getting lost a bit. I am supposed to be good at navigating, but apparently useless at reading stickers!
My qualifying time was not very good and I started quite far back in the field. Hentie also had a few problems during qualifying, and was only about 6 or so places in front of me.
The race started and it was a relieve, the terrain was much better, with a good variety. First lap went smoothly, apparently a bit to smoothly as i was caught halfway through the lap. Gert catch me in the technical stuff and me catching him again in the open parts. He was on a 250 two stroke, and there were flat out straights on closed of district roads, so it was a bit unfair to him
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When I got tomthe dsp after the first lap ate everything I could find, and crammed my cheecks full of biltong to eat on my way tomthe start line. Unfortunately i started chocking right when Inhad to start the 2nd lap! I nearly died! Had to stop shortly thereafter just to get everything sorted out. Idiot! Got passed by 2 guys there
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Rest of the race went better, it started to rain and got quite cold and very slippery. Managed to complete the race without any crashes, had a few close ones though! Bent my rear wheel a bit.
Unfortunately no photos from here on as we had to pack everything in the wet and cold.
I managed to get a 5th place (I thought Gert beat me as he started behind me and finished in front of me?) and Hentie a very good second place, both in the senior class. Bolly van Rooyen better whatch out for him at the dessert race!
All in all it was a good weekend, with good racing. Next up will be a practice day in the Kalahari, a 4x4 event and bike race there after, and then the big one, the Dessert 1000! Thats the one we are looking forward to! O yes and my wife have to give birth, I just hope its not going to interfere with one of the races!
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Topic: Willem du Toit Dakar 2018 (Read 17826 times)
