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General => Brammo Racing => Topic started by: Brammofan on May 23, 2012, 10:40:51 AM
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Posted on the Brammo Blog (http://www.brammo.com/blogs/general/the-racing-season-begins-kind-of/)
Round 1 of the 2012 season kicked off the first weekend of May and arrived with great anticipation. Problem was it didnt last long - for me at least. Four and a half laps to be exact. A great four and a half laps, but still, only four and a half laps.
That was the point at which the rear end let go exiting Turn 7 and sent me for a ride of a lifetime - and not in a good way. It was a massive highside, one which took the top of my right index finger off and fractured six of the vertebre in my back - from which I'm now 1.2cm shorter! Like I really needed that at a towering 5' 6" already - thanks a lot Mr. Empulse RR! All joking aside, looking at the data showed nothing different than the lap prior so we're not too sure what happened.
On the plus side, my fourth lap was already over a second faster than our track record from last year. But half way through lap five was the end to my opening round. For this reason my second update of the season is a short one. As in that's all folks (laughs)...
Thankfully I'm healing ahead of schedule and by no means are we giving up on defending our Number 1 plate. With four rounds and two races at each left we will be back in the hunt quickly - mark my word. So stay tuned for the next update following our next test in a few weeks. Hopefully it's a bit longer than this one!
SteveO
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Good news! Though I am baffled by the missing finger tip, not sure how that could have happened... Not as bad off as this fellow here: http://www.gixxer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=242261 (http://www.gixxer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=242261)
Yum... ;)
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That Steve is recovering OK is good news, but that sure sounds like it was a nasty accident. I don't think I would want to see it happen.
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SteveO has a new blog post...
http://www.brammo.com/blogs/?p=1538 (http://www.brammo.com/blogs/?p=1538)
Gavin