Big Plans!
By TMX Archives on 10th Jan 06
Well it's back to work for yet another season and, hopefully, it'll be a great one! Happy New Year and all that and I hope you had a good one. Well it's back to work for yet another season and, hopefully, it'll be a great one! Happy New Year and all that and I hope you had a good one. I've had a few nights out which have been a good laugh but now the party's over...I must say that after working in the shop since November I'm itching to get back on the bike again. At the moment my plan is to ride three days a week and be in the gym for another two. I just hope we can have some decent weather so that I can ride as much as possible. Bikewise at the moment I have a '06 CR250 just waiting to be ridden and ridden. The plan for me will be to get bike fit in the month of January before testing and racing in early February.I'm fairly lucky that this is my third season with Honda so there isn't too much I don't know about the bikes. For 2006 I plan on having small motor mods and suspension work but otherwise that's pretty much it. I'll just get on and ride the thing.Also right now I'm still trying to sort out my GNCC stuff in the US with all my other sponsors - they are pretty much all the same and have agreed that racing in the US is still good for them. The plan for '06 is I will try and do as many UK events as possible and I'll also try to do some special European events such as the indoor races, Hells Gate and hopefully the big one - Erzberg - which I'm trying to talk Team DBR into doing! I'm sure they will be up for it!Anyway, the riding front is pretty much sorted and with more help from PAR Homes and Honda it should make life easier. Last season was very hard and not doing the last two WEC races due to the cost of travelling was a tough decision to make - but at least '06 will be better on that front.On to the race series and we've got some big changes happening - first of all Putoline have come on board as the title sponsor of the championship which helps us put some financial support into the '06 race series. It's looking like we're also going to be focusing more on the Clubman and Expert classes in the way of prize money and product support. Other changes are the introduction of a Novice class and losing one of the Expert classes in favour of just Expert two-stroke and four-stroke. The Pro class will again have five out of six races to score with the championship prize fund down to 10th in the overall standings.All that is left to do at the moment is to confirm two venues which we hope to have finalised by the end of January ready for the entries being released on February 1. That's pretty much all for the moment other than I cannot wait to start practising and racing.See you at the events and good luck to all racers for the new season. Enjoy it!Words by Paul Edmondson