This is the first post of the year, and even beeing a little bit late, I want to wish you a happy 2008, full of dreams and projects.
As almost everybody, at the beginning of every year I like to review what I did during the previous one and at the same time, I like to make new purposes for the new year. Personally, and regarding motorbikes, 2007 has been a very exciting year for me.
During 2007 I worked for the very first time in a racing team, in the road racing Spanish Championship, in the Formula Extreme category. I worked as a telemetrist. Thanks to this job I learnt some things about motorbikes setup, data adquisition and also about how a racing team works. The experience has been very positive and it allowed me to increase my know-how. I really wanted a lot to acquire some real experience in the racing world, so I am very happy in this aspect.
This had also a negative side, as I didn’t had almost free time, because I combined racing with my normal job as engineer in a medical X-ray systems company, and it meant that I couldn’t dedicate time to work on the Morlaco project.
During 2007 motorbikes gave me another great satisfaction, because I raced my first road race, as a rider. The best of all was that my team mate was Tony Foale, one of my “heros” and favourite motorbike designers, together with Antonio Cobas, John Britten and Claude Fior.
15 years ago I raced in several motoX races with a Yamaha YZ 250, but I didn’t have experience on a road track, so last December I did something a little mad asI went to race without any previous experience!
The race was the last one of the season, of a Spanish aficionados championship called MAC90. It was in the Cartagena circuit. The bike was Tony’s Suzuki SV 650. Thank you Tony!. I don’t know the laptimes I did, for sure I was the slowest by far, anyway it was an amazing experience that made me realize again about how much I love motorcycling.
Also, during 2007 I decided to change the bottpower website and create this blog, which is something I find very stimulating because it allows me to share my ideas with other people with similar interests as mine.
Regarding 2008, I think it is very likely that I work again in the Spanish Championship. I also would like to train and prepare myself as a trackday rider, and try to race the whole MAC90 championship (in 2008 it will have 4 races).
I also would like to find time to finish the Morlaco, right now that is my unresolved matter.
And of course, I want to continue writing in this blog at regular intervals.
So, that’s it.. let’s go for 2008! 🙂
[tags]2007, 2008, racing, telemetry[/tags]