Port Mac 12 hour [ finally i get to race my Carbide]

So i have been talking the Telegraph Point track up so much over the last 12 months since racing there last year that it was definitely going to be a must ride for this years' race schedule, and this time we would be recruiting a much bigger Brisbane contingent.



This year i would be once again racing with Michael Reedy from Action Cycles, and seeing as we came in third last year we were back this year to take out the top spot in the pairs division.



So, Friday before last, Sean Bozza Bekkers came around and we loaded up the big yellow Vito with way more crap than we needed and set off south. We arrived at Telegraph Point a bit after 9pm and set up camp next to the lads from Seans work [Australian Aerospace].



At about ten o'clock i wandered up the track a bit and then called out to the guys to come and have a look at the finishing berm into transition. For some strange reason we kept on walking and arrived back at the camp at close to 1am after getting a bit excited and walking the whole 9.6km track. Why would we do that ? Just excited i guess. The track was so awesome that as we made our way around the course we would find sweet little sections and have a "middle of the bush" discussion about the best way to hit that particular corner, berm or log.



So the next day was a bit of a bludge after an early morning runch around the very newly groomed Tele Point Track..... and before you knew it it was 12 midnight and the race was on.



Sean and i got a good start on the rest of the field and were the first riders into the single track. It was good but for the first few klms i could not do anything right, overshooting corners, picking nasty lines that i wouldn't usually try; let me tell you, it was messy! And it wasn't until Sean said "hey mate just relax", that i actually just chilled out and started racing........ properly. From that point on in the race i couldn't do anything wrong. I came into transition about 10 seconds off the leader and Mick was there ready to go. Mick put in a good time for his first lap, and after our first lap each we decided to do double laps until a couple of hours from the finish line.



I couldn't agree more with what Sean wrote in his blog; that this race was just a 'big ring' smash fest. When i was relaxed and having a good time i could then concentrate on just how good my Carbide Sl performed. With the Onza Canis rubber wrapped around my rims and my new Ay-Ups blazing away, those port boys were going to have to pull a bunny out to catch us. The bike felt wicked....................


The Port Guys gave us a pretty good run throughout the night but with our good mate Shannon Jansen giving us splits back to our competitors we were pulling away and then maintaining a pretty decent lead.

By the end of the race we had a lap and 15 minutes on second place and was still feeling pretty damn good just really hungry, all that training paid off.

So thanks to Bozz for getting me down to Port mac, thanks to mick for smashing himself, you rode well bro, and thanks to Supersports for the for my sick Carbide sl [just cant wait to race it again] and Ay Up for the best lights ever. fitz out