The last day on the track and what a present! Sun shining brightly and the temperature was climbing fast!
Yet another day on Zolder. The weather was more or less in the early morning. The first session I went out and came back in without passing the finish. The reason for this was that the track was still wet from the rain that fell last night. Some riders stayed out but there was no fun in riding around the wet patches and the back part of the circuit was completely wet.
And yet again back on the track. The weather was nice but it had rain in the forecast. Little but it had. The sessions went fine and had a reasonable rhythm but not a very fast one. The other guys that I drive with where just faster. Not by much but enough to loose them.
Code yellow was the rain forecast and yes it did get bad. But we had a good 2 morning sessions with nice speed. The first session was a good one but it was HOT 🥵, despite there was no sun it was very humid and which made it extremely hard to ride. But the speed was there and had some nice laps.
And here we are in The Cathedral of Speed (TT Circuit of Assen) 🤗
Yet another day in the same wee as we visited the TT circuit of Assen. It was yet a nice day with lots of sun and a cool breeze. Because we already had the Assen day everything stayed in the van. This made it easy and we just needed to appear on the track and take everything out. We where the first ones of the tay in the expert group (fast) and it went fine.
We went the day before because Assen is a long drive. But we met with some new friends which we had a nice evening.
As always, even with all good things it comes to a end. But not before we had more fun on the track!
You can see that the video’s of the previous day and also this day are not the usual. I have prepared a custom project of the KIXZ app with 2 camera’s. One for the front and one for the back. GP style 😀. This is still in experimental phase and as you see some improvements needs to happen. The colors, duration and sound need more love. But it has some cool footage that I want to share. Due to cable connector issues the recording button stopped to work after the 1st session of the day. Since I didn’t want to take the seat appart this was the last video of the trip but we still have the photo’s!
And here we are back in the Spanish sun! Left The Netherlands where it was raining and 6℃ for the 20℃ sun. It has been some time since I rode the last time. And that was when the gearbox of the bike broke. Preparation did not go all that well. When I was preparing the bike the bike showed error code on the screen. Brought the bike back to MVR Racing and he tried to find the issue. Back on the track the issue appeared again but also the quick-shifter and blipper where not working because the traction control light stayed on. But there was no quick fix far away from the garage but we went out to have fun even though I had to learn to shift again 😅.
The day was a nice and hot. Did some nice laps and had a lot of fun with Peter. Some good overtaking actions and decent speed. Unfortunately in the middle of session 4 the bike started to make a lot of noise in turn 1 and 2 and I decided to slow down and finish the lap. Back in the pits the engine was making more noise then a coffee machine and I had to call it a day.
It has been a week since we went to Circuit Zolder that was halted very quickly by black flags due to the noise. So today we “tried” to avoid it.
A very sunny day and a lot of fun to come! After the 5 hours of Assen I had to change the breakpads. They where completely gone. With the new ones I had to break them in for a few corners. After the session the break leaver was on the handlebar but that was fine. I always do the first session in a slower pace to feel hoe the bike and track is.
WE ARE BACK! The 4 hours of Assen got upgraded to 5 hours 😯 but we where up for the task.
We where in Spain but the weather was not like Spain. It was cold 8℃ and the people of the team told us to skip the session. It was to cold, little grip and it could only end up wrong. So we did. As I mentioned we had 7 sessions in a day so we didn’t care much.