News: 2010
Winter Training
Over the christmas holidays I went snowboarding in the french resort of Les Arcs. It was great fun and some good training for the hard season ahead. I am now looking forward to our first race test which is now only a month away.
2010 Season Highlights
NGRRC Award Presentation
Saturday 27th of November was the NG Road Racing Award Ceremony. I receved Three awards the Steve Lynham Motorcylcles F125 Class Champion Trophy, the Gerry Gardener Junior 125 Trophy and the Team Mixed Grill Rider of the Year Award. I also receved £250 prize money from Steve Lyhnam Motorcyles and a framed photo from EDP Photography.
All info on NGRRC and the F125 series can be found at
2010 Aprilia Superteens Season Review
It was an up and down year in the superteens, I have learnt alot and am looking forward to next year. The first round at mallory park I qualified 17th and got two 15th places. At pembrey I struggled in qualifying and ended up 23rd, I had problems with gearing all weekend and only scored a best of 16th. Snettorton we had engine problems, especialy in qualifying where I was down in 27th but I still managed to get a 14th finish.
Oulton park was another up and down weekend after another bad qualifying I finished 14th in the first race but after running off track at the end of the second race finished down in 19th. Cadwell was a much better weekend I qualified 16th and scored 13th, 12th, 11th and 10th finishes breaking the previous lap record. Brands Hatch was a dissapointing weekend in which I only managed a 13th finish.
We only raced on sunday because I was racing at oulton park on the saturday. I had to start from the back of the grid(32nd) and in the very wet weather I had water get in the engine in race 1 which meant I had to pull out. In race two I battled through the pack to finsh 13th. Mallory park was the best meeting of the year I qualified tenth and had a best finish of 9th having hard racing all weekend. The final round of the at donnington I only arrived on the sunday because of racing at silverstone NG, I started last (33rd) on the grid and had crash in practise and only managed 16th in the first race and in the second race I raced through to 11th place.
Additional info on the Superteens can be found at
http://www.apriliachallenge.com/
2010 NGRRC F125 Season Review
It was a great year in the formula 125 class at NGMCC, clinching the title at the last round. It was a dificult year with a bad start a Brands that included 5 break downs but I managed to salvage a 2nd and 3rd finish and sat 3rd in the standings.I had more setup issues at Cadwell but a bad start meant that I was down field, fortunately I beat series leader Tom Williams (#116) and closed the gap in the championship to 9 points and was now in 2nd spot.
Pembrey was a hard fought weekend, I took the victory and the fastest lap on Saturday, then on Sunday it was the aniversary meeting in which I won best F125. Finaly on Monday I qualified on pole but was just beaten to the line by Tom(#116) which meant the gap stayed a 9 points.
Snetterton was a fun weekend and on Saturday I made a last corner move on Tom(#116) but got out of controll a ran across the grass and ended up third, Sunday was a much more successful day I qualified third and in the final made an overtake around the outside into turn one to finish second closing the gap to 6 points. The second Pembrey was a stong weekend I went 1.5 seconds faster than ever before and claimed two 2nd places, I also took the series lead on Saturday and extended it to 10 points by Sunday.
Anglesea was the hardest rounds of the season I suffered 2 break downs due to throttle cable issues, I also had two crashes but managed a 2nd on Saturday and on Sunday only managed a fourth. Oulton was the best round of the year I qualified on pole lapping 3 seconds faster than anyone else, in the final I won by 53 seconds with the fastest lap. Thruxton was a hard race I battled it out with Tom(#116) for the whole race and made a bid for the win in the last few coners but ended up second. The final round at Silverstone I qualified second, but in the final I took the lead in the early stages and won with the fastest lap and took the F125 title.
Final championship standings can be found at http://www.ngroadracing.org/results_data/2010/championship_table/f125.pdf
