Highsides and Turn 5 aside, I had a rollicking good time. I saw 261KMPH on the speedo, which is surely out of touch with reality by at least 10%, but still. I scraped both knees many times, which is not something I often do because I don't hang off much. Most surprising was scraping my knee at Turn 4, the downhill right hander. I have never particularly liked this corner as you have to brake hard downhill and it really loads up the front tyre. But on this day, on this bike, I was consistently nailing the inside line here, with my knee on the ripple strip. I wasn’t even scared of Turn 9, that scary down-hill right handed U-turn and cheekily undertook a few people through there.
Lap Times? Bah! don’t know, don’t care. I was faster than a few, slower than many. What I do know is that I had one of the biggest grins in the paddock that day (certainly bigger than the folks who crashed their hired S1000RRs in the first session!). And that’s priceless! For everything else, there’s Masterchef. or something…
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