What can you say, Leigh has not won a race before and was beginning to think it would never happen but what a place to do it, at the MotoGP at Donington Park. Now before you all get carried away he didn’t actually win the MotoGP race beating the likes of Rossi, Stoner, Pedrosa et al but the Minitwin support race with an equally impressive line up of Boland, White and Jones etc.Leigh managed to qualify 4th quickest Minitwin just half a second down on Boland and White with Jones on Pole. Qualifying was held in dry conditions but come the race it was lashing down. This seemed to suit Leigh down to the ground and after a flying start pulled out a gap of 10 seconds over the next Minitwin rider which he held onto the finish.
He appeared to be in a state of shock when he returned to the paddock and was informed of the good news.
The funny thing for me was I nearly won the Junior Powerbike race only losing out by 0.005s after coming from 3-4 seconds back, but the first thing Birdy had to say to me when I returned back to the paddock was ‘your kid had a blinder of a race’. Thanks John ?
Still the day was Leigh’s and he proved the saying to be true ‘That Winners are Grinners’.
well done to both of u mate, good to read ur both riding well. Richy Rich
ReplyDeleteCheers mate, looks like you have had a few good rides too, and a couple hiccups!
ReplyDeleteProud of you both
ReplyDeleteBy the way whats that little sack of spuds doing in the background
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