Late on Friday I found out that I had a free ticket to the BSB round at Silverstone on Sunday (many thanks to MCN). I've never been to any racing of any kind before so I was really excited.
Sunday dawned bright and clear, I got up horribly early and had a lovely run down to Silverstone. I'd carefully noted down my route from google maps (A45 - A5 - A34) but all I had to do was get on the A5 and join the first big group of bikers I saw (I'm glad they really were going to Silverstone or I could have ended up anywhere). I got there early (shock!) and had to hang around before hooking up with some MCN forum regulars.
We went to the pits and had a look down the pit lane. The best bit was when I mechanic said we could take a short cut through a pit lane garage and we came out behind the riders giving autographs! After seeing the pit lane we settled in for a day of racing. I enjoyed the Super Sport racing where Carl Crutchlow won the series.
After Super Sport we watched round one of the Superbikes, I must say I was gutted when Leon Haslam chucked his Ducati down the track, I've been rooting for the lad for the majority of the season. Kionari took the win easily once Haslam was out of his way.
Between round one and round two we went and had a beer with Time Stewart of MCN who had arranged the tickets for us. Good chap and very passionate abut his job.
Round two was another Kionari walk over with Haslam dropping to third behind his team mate Lavilla. Let's hope he wins at Brands next week to take the championship.
After round two we decided to head home. At this point it all went a little pear shaped for me. First of all it took ages to get my helmet back from the Riders for Health helmet park. Then I thought my bike had been pinched as I couldn't find it. Turns out I was looking in slightly the wrong place but this put me in such a flap that I tried to ride off without taking of my disc lock... Bummer, I dropped my Zed because of it. Virtually no damage fortunately, just a couple of scratches on the engine covers.
Still, apart from this minor mishap what a fantastic day I had. I'd like to make Brands Hatch but it's not likely as I'm skint.
