The first Aston Hill race for 2010 was to be held on the famous Black run track. Here is my report of the race.
The black run was built many years ago by the well known track builder, Ian Warby. It is definitely the toughest track at Aston Hill but I would say the best one there. As most of you may have seen in the recent helmet cam of the track, it has fast sprint section at the beginning of the track with some high speed berms, this takes you over to where the hill starts to get steeper and has some of the best and well built corners I have ever ridden. A short but tough track for sure.
The black run was built many years ago by the well known track builder, Ian Warby. It is definitely the toughest track at Aston Hill but I would say the best one there. As most of you may have seen in the recent helmet cam of the track, it has fast sprint section at the beginning of the track with some high speed berms, this takes you over to where the hill starts to get steeper and has some of the best and well built corners I have ever ridden. A short but tough track for sure.
One of the best sections of the track.
Aston hill does not have a uplift but you can push up right next to the track which makes it really good for practising, making it easy to section and look at lines. I felt pretty confident with all my lines after Saturday’s practice. I had done a couple of full runs as well to see what the bottom section felt like after pinning the top section and it feels pretty good and I was not too knackered. After practice we retreated to race organizer Richard Abbott’s house for some of his finest home made Lasagne (best I have ever tasted) and some DVD action, We decided to hit the hay early and get a good night’s sleep ready for Sunday’s race.
We woke to a fresh but sunny morning. Before practice, I still had to finishing dishing over a new prototype 120 point engagement Superstar wheel I am testing. I had a few other tweaks to do on the bike but we were soon ready to go. I spent a bit of time looking at the first section of the track to see if there was any sneaky lines that straightened out the track and also looked for smother lines over some of the roots.
Chilling in practise with the man behind the tracks upkeep, John Holbrook
I tried not to practise too much to not wear myself out as it was a demanded track and 2 race runs. My first run went ok, I had the top section good but missed some important lines further down. I noticed this in my time as I was 3 seconds back on Nathan and 2 on Harry. My second run was a lot better, A couple of hesitant moment but apart from that I didn’t make any big mistakes. My run felt amazing and with everybody shouting on the track made it awesome. Final result was me 3rd with a 1.34.68, Nathan 2nd with a 1.34.50 and Mr Molloy 1st with a 1.34.16. All within 0.6 of a second made for some close racing in the Expert/Elite category. This was cool and it is always a good race against those two.
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