First time on Zolder with good weather. Due to many riders saying the have fast laptimes the fast group was full. So we had to start in the less fast group and that was not very nice. The first session there was already a red flag and the second session to.
You might be thinking, hey is this the 5 hours of TT Circuit Assen? And yes it is. But why don’t I see pictures of them? Well, that is because Peter the other rider was ill and not able to race.
The last day was also with a cold start. Although in the beginning of the last (my last) session it all went wrong. I thought I turned into the corner correctly but it was to soon. Had to correct and start the corner again but I had way to much speed. I needed to bailout of the corner because the tarmac was ending and went into the gravel. So far so good, BUT! The wall came way to close where I had to drop the bike in the gravel and came to a stop.
The second day was as cold as the first one at the start. But the racetrack was a not new anymore. Did many laps but it is a difficult and technical racetrack. So worked a lot on which line worked and which didn’t.
When we arrived we drove through snow and freezing temperatures and not the 20+ ℃ you would expect from Spain. The circuit is in the middle of nowhere but easy accessible from the main highway. The hotel Trackdudes arranged had nice rooms.
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!