Breaking news…tipping into turn one I was following 2 Kawasaki’s and they almost stopped in the middle of the corner leaving me no where to go. It was the very end of turn one and turns sharply, I had to runoff the track and lost the front end. Ended up bouncing over the ripple strip and broke my ribs, medical won’t let me race anymore this weekend so that’s it. Disappointed isn’t a strong enough word at the moment and I’m really sorry to all those who helped me get here that I’m not able to race… I know that’s racing but I expected better luck than this, a lot of people have put so much time and effort and money into this and some talentless riders riding dangerously took that away, only one lap later the same rider did the same thing to someone else….anyway I won’t go on but thanks again to everyone who helped get me here this weekend and for everyone’s support. I hope for better luck in the future.
To all those that were asking, I was told that there was one Rider punished by having two ride through penalties (riding at 60 km/h through the pits while everyone on track is averaging 160 km/h) during the race, he also got slapped with a further 2 ride through penalties for doing the same thing to another rider the very next lap. Unfortunately this didn’t un-break my ribs and give me a shot at the race but it would have ruined that Kawasaki riders very expensive Australian round and his team would not have been impressed. So there is some justice unfortunately I now have another huge repair bill $$$$ caused by an absolute rabbit twice in one month. Physically though i’m not too bad and hope to repair the bike in time to get some track time at Morgan park ASAP.
Thanks again to all those who have contributed and or just followed and commented it has been a great support in very tough times in a very tough sport
cheers Sam (see the gallery for photos of the weekend)
