Posted 7 months ago (May 7, 2009 - 5:24am)

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Description: Oops, I got a bit ambitious there on the 1st lap of a 10 lap race. One make Honda CBF150 race at Tianma Circuit in China. I crashed on Friday practice bruising my ribs and spraining my thumb, which hurt the following days but did not slow me much. I Qualified 7th out of 13 in the wet (it was Class B for Superstock, modified bikes were at the front of the grid in Class A), I am too heavy for bikes with just 14 horses, the chinese guys weight about 50kg, I am 95kg. It makes me a bit slow on the straights and tougher to corner. In the race I got a goot start off the line and only lost a little distance because of my weight, I really stuck it into the inside of Turn 1, ran a little wide, then lost some ground up the long straight but gained it going quick through turn 2, and with higher corner speed got up the inside of one guy for T3. Then I kept the throttle wide open through T4, gained into T5 where 2 guys sat up and got unsettled and I took them both on the inside and was right behind my teammate, but one guy snuck past me under acceleration. Then into T6 I was trying to not let the guy stay in front and went around the outside, but too far, I couldn't get it turned ran wide which had me clip the grass before T7 and there was no way I could get it leant over for the long sweeping T7, I tried to hammer the brakes but couldnt get it stopped before slipping over on the grass, I could not get it restarted and the race was over. I was briefly in 5th place, just for a moment, on the 1st lap. Next race on my Triumph 675 is June 20th, and next Honda 150 race is in July.

Keywords: motorcycle, race, crash, superbike, honda, paul, martin, kwiktigi, china, shanghai, tianma, bg, performance, cbf150, cbf, moto 1 \crf150r

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Location: Shanghai, China