World MXGP team certainly can’t be described as boring. Every weekend something seems to have happened, keeping me on my toes and making sure the press releases that I write don’t ffit in with any sort of pre-built template. It’s been both exciting and emotional.“Never send a man to do a boy’s job. That’s the moral of this Asian adventure that saw me jet to the other side of the world and strip to my shreddies for a boxing-style weigh-in, in preparation for the fourth round of the SAC. It wasn’t one of my life’s highlights, stood in a swelteringly hot pitlane with an audience of onlookers, with the verdict being my 75kg of mass meant I was some 25kg heavier on average over the 14 adversaries I’d be swapping paint with around the Sentul race circuit. “After my first session of free practice, in which I took the accolade of finishing last of the 15 riders on track, I grasped the minute I left pitlane that I had a hell of a lot to learn. I was pitifully slow. I didn’t feel too shabby going into bends, but my head was holding me back from grabbing at the throttle until I’d started picking the bike up, as if I was having it out with a 200bhp Superbike. This was costing me big time. By the time the chequered was out I’d clocked a 2m 8-second lap, which still meant I was six seconds off the pole pace, but hey, it was progress. I decided to ride the bike in the upper rev range, which Yukio came and told me was the wrong thing to do. “These bikes are not good with revs, change sooner, go faster.” Instead of shifting after I’d crested the redline on the rev counter, Yukio wanted me to change 1,000rpm before it, at 11,000rpm. Who was I to argue? “The next day, I got right to the front when we were queuing to join the track for that day’s qualifying session and blew caution to the wind when it came to scrubbing in my bike’s shiny new Dunlop 20tEAM SUZUKI rACInG nEwSIdentical Suzukis line up.2017 Issue #3 - Winter‘AFtEr MY FIrSt SESSIOn OF FrEE PrACtICE, In wHICH I tOOK tHE ACCOlAdE OF FInISHInG lASt OF tHE 15 rIdErS On trACK, I GrASPEd tHE MInUtE I lEFt PItlAnE tHAt I HAd A HEll OF A lOt tO lEArn’“My first year with the Suzuki
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