Well what a day. Missed breakfast this morning as the African way of eating finally caught up with me through the night, so decided to rest my stomach. Head off to the track for FP3 only to find that 5five mins before our session the rain began to pour.

After amusing ourselves in pit lane on the painted lines, to see how slippy it was, it was finally time to go on track and try the changes we made through the night. Two laps later and the rain began to pour again, ending FP3 down in 21st spot.

Confident of the changes we approached Qualifying on bike No2 having the stronger motor, and setting the 5th fastest time on a 19 lap used tyre we encountered an electrical misfire. Back onto bike No 1 while No 2 was being fixed and moving up to 4th was encouraging.

In the box and taking No 2 machine with more changes and a new rear tyre, moving  up to 3rd spot. Four laps in and 5mins remaining, we still had 1 tyre left and decided to take the decision to fit the tyre to the No 1 bike and call Eugene into the garage with 3 mins remaining.

Jumping on the spare bike and completing an out lap Eugene crossed the line with 2  seconds remaining on the clock to then go onto doing his best lap, moving up to 2nd spot and the fastest Honda, only to have the lap taken away on the slowing down lap, claiming that we had missed the flag.

When challenged upstairs in the offices we missed the lap by 0.0199 so was knocked back to 3rd. Happy enough with the front row still, and having the data of the second fastest lap should put is in good form for the race. It still would have been nice to be top Honda  on the sheets, but its the race that counts.

In-between qualifying here and watching the NW200 on a live feed, big up to Honda UK for winning the superbike and supersport, and our own PTR rider Keith Amor who finished 3rd on his superstock, but sadly did not finish the supersport. Keith and the team will get it right for the TT as the bike looked strong and rider was riding hard.

Ciao

Brains