Top Weekend Out at Cadwell

Firstly I will apologise for the short write up, although some of you may be thankful of this, as I am due to fly off to Honk Kong on Tuesday so time is a little limited.
We had an absolutely top weekend, the new 440cc motor Roger Middleton had built for us, it was absolutely flying and it made the bike probably the quickest on the grid. This provides both good and bad points though, firstly it gives us a better chance of winning but secondly it means I don't have any excuses anymore!
I qualified 3rd on the grid which we were all happy with as it means a front row start which is ideally where you want to be. The two races on the Saturday were absolutely corkers. They both came down to a duel between myself and Alex Heaton (the miserable looking one) on the Knight Racing 800cc Ducati. In both races we were passing each other a couple of times each lap and in the process we both went 1.2 seconds under the existing lap record. The lap times we were doing would have put us in the top 7 of the 600 race and the top 4 of the GP1 race. The outcome of the races was that I won the first race and Heaton took the second.
Sunday was expected to be much of a repeat of the day before but on the 3rd lap of the first race Heaton crashed out at Mansfield corner. This meant I had a relatively comfortable victory, with Danny Murphy posting the best times of the Aprilia 450's and coming home in 2nd place. Danny is another young lad that is going places and will probably be at the sharp end of British Championships in the not too distant future. The 2nd race saw the battle recommence between Heaton and myself, I led for the first few laps until he came past on the brakes into Park Corner. There was quite an amusing tale about Park Corner, on this corner they have 300, 200 and 100 yard braking markers. Now we normally brake around the 200 yard marker, well imagine our surprise when on the first lap charging up to Park past the 300 yard marker, looking for the 200 yard marker only to realise that it was not there as you approached the 100 yard marker. For some reason the marker had disappeared. I am not sure how we managed to stop for the corner but it just goes to show how late you can brake ! Although not one I want to repeat. Anyway, back to the story, I followed Heaton around for the last few laps and was contemplating having a go but then I remembered Pippa had come to watch by now and if it all went wrong and I missed the flight to Hong Kong she would probably kill me, or just have gone on her own. Due to this I decided 'discretion was the better part of valour' and came home in 2nd place.
This now means we have extended our lead in the championship from 5 points to 25 points. This sounds good but there are still 400 points up for the taking from the last 4 rounds so it is still up for grabs.
One of the funniest parts of the weekend was seeing Ian Popplewell throwing a big girly sissy fit in Parc Ferme after the race when he had been black flagged from the race due to a smoking bike. He only needed to start jumping up and down on the spot and we would have had the full shebang!

I get back from Hong Kong on Thursday 27th August and drive down to Brands Hatch on the 28th, I hope the jet lag is not too bad?