Nomad

Here I am again and it has been another couple months since I posted a blog. But it has also been another few months of hectic schedules and crazy traveling for me also. Since I last wrote I have raced my first gncc, been to spain, portugal, france, bulgaria, germany, austria and of course almost every part of the UK, raced a GP, and flown in a fighter jet. Among a bunch of little things along the way. 

 So first things first. I did in fact enter a GNCC race in Florida. David made me go at it full serious also with hand guards and giant gas tank. I felt pretty funny being full on woods racer for a day but it turned out to be worth it. I managed to win the thing by about 5 minutes and got to race in whooped out sand for two and a half hours in the process. Suprisingly it was really enjoyable and I might just do it again next year. 

  After that I flew back to Europe and attended the first two rounds of the world enduro championship. It was really interesting to see what an enduro is actually like since I honestly had no clue what those races were all about. They seem like they would be fun to race because it involves so much different stuff and you really need to know how to ride your bike in everything. I don’t think I could ever learn how to do half the stuff those guys have to do on their bikes just to race an enduro. So I’m thinking I’ll just stick to the motocross thing.

 After that we headed to Bulgaria for the first GP. That is a country that really makes you miss being in America. Or anywhere that actually seems like your safe. We arrived on Friday and had to drive well over two hours to get to the track. Once there we made sure my bike that I was getting from the Utag Yamaha team was ready, as well as signing on and walking the track. On saturday we had two 30 minute practices. In the first practice the fastest times were between me, lancelot, and laier. I was able, on the very last lap, to put down the fastest lap, but that didn’t count for anything unfortunately. It was the second practice that was for qualifying position and it was down to us three again. But again I went out on the last lap and started putting down my fastest lap. I was close to 2 seconds quicker on the first half of the track but on the second half I got caught behind a slower rider and then a yellow flag was out and I missed pole by less then half a second. I ended up taking second position in qualifying. That is where all the good stuff ended for me though. We had our first moto at about six in the afternoon on saturday, due to the live TV broadcast on sunday. Around the first corner i was about 6th place but somehow i got hit from the side and it locked my front brake on and i came out well near the end of the pack. The first lap was chaos back there and it ended with me getting landed on off this big uphill jump. It was my fault entirely because I got cross rutted going off the jump. That was caused by the fact that I couldn’t see any of the ruts because the sun was blazing my eye balls. That pretty much ended that moto for me even though I did manage to work back up to 14th with a bent up bike and all. The next day was not good for me either. I could barely move at all and I just had to try my best. I was near the front off the start but I had no strength in my body to make any passes and settled for 6th. Still I had the third fastest lap time behind lancelot and laier. I’ll just have to wait until portugal to see how I can do actually racing against them. With a better start I hope.

  When we left Bulgaria we flew strait to Austria to visit the RedBull headquarters. The city they are located near is Salzburg and it is one of the coolest cities I have ever been to. Not to mention it seemed like RedBull owned the majority of the stuff there. The coolest thing we got to do was visit Hangar 7. This is a hangar at the airport that they have open to the public and is full of F1 cars, Indy cars, jets, helicopters, a ton of paintings and a load of other stuff I can’t even remember. When we were there we had the priviledge to go up in one of their fighter jets. That’s right I said one of them. They have about 4 amongst a bunch of other old military aircrafts. It was insane and one of the best things I have ever done. I felt like Goose up there looking out for german bogies. Top Gun style. 

 Now I am back in America and its nice to be home. While I am getting used to the Euro style of doing things and learning to eat what you can get, I really enjoy being back here. It won’t be for long though since I’m flying back across the pond on Saturday. I have to race Portugal and then spain the first couple weeks in may and then its strait to glen helen for round 1. wish me luck, hopefully good. TG