Frustrating day for James Dunn at Culham
By Sean Lawless on 4th Apr 18
British Motocross Championship Culham James Dunn
While his GL12 Racing KTM team-mate Mike Kras was streaking to a double B2S win at Culham, James Dunn started the day looking strangely subdued.
Off the pace in qualification, James then struggled in the opening race at one point he appeared to be touring and could only managed 18th. In moto two he had an early crash before re-finding his mojo and carving his way through the field, setting the fastest lap as he moved from 16th to fourth to place ninth overall.
A very frustrating day for me, he said. I felt good in the morning and was actually feeling confident in the tricky conditions. I had a terrible start in the first race and really struggled to find any feel at all. I was not myself.
I had to reset mentally for the second race I had a much better start but dropped it on the first lap and went back to pretty much last. I really got my head down and came back to fourth with fastest lap of the race.
Overall Im looking at the positives from the day and Im happy that we turned it around for race two.
Team boss Bob Buchanan was delighted with Mikes performance and, understandably, frustrated by James form.
Mike is solid this year, he looks like the Mikey Kras of years ago. Hes the one to beat if anyone wants to win anything the pressure is on me to get him to the races and keep a bike underneath him.
Jimmy D is an enigma. If you can keep him in the zone you could rule the world but he has days when he just isnt there and he had one of those at Culham.
Its frustrating for everyone but you live off the special days when he is breath-taking.
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