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NPS Round1

Crash Test Dummies Round 2

On the up lift to my race run I was still in two minds whether to run the gully or not . When I went past the track crossing on the fire rd, we saw they had put a pallet in the hole which had been created after the steep off camber. When I came down only 30 minutes later it had gone again, no mention from the marshals of any changes. I came flying round the corner to find the bloody hole there again, really that is shit and not to mention dangerous. We heard that the Elite riders had a Gentlemen’s agreement that they were all going to run the gully, so Andy Williamson and myself agreed to do the same, in for a penny in for a pound. Which I have to say really paid off. After my race run I thought I’d have a walk up the track to speak to some of the riders and spectators and I have to say there were a lot of pissed off people. I have to say the spectators loved it, if you like to see carnage and destruction then Rugog Farm really had to be the very best…….  
 
If you wanted to cane it down a hill at 35 mph, then you’d have more chance on your arse. I have to say it really wasn’t the track to run at this time of year, people said it hadn’t bedded in enough, I say some of it hadn’t been frigging marked out before. Saturday night so how could it bed in????  I love the fact that it’s a new venue and that it’s another track which could be great in the summer fair play!!! I spoke to Dai Evans the farmer a couple of weeks back and he said he’d been wanting an event here for four years. Jason had approached him but wanted to dig a track and the national park wouldn’t allow it. I saw on the dragons web site that he’s complaining that this race could scare the hill side. Well wouldn’t "digging a track down the hill with a 360 excavator and surface it" do that, really I feel there is an element of bias in his comments or is it just me?  I have to say Dave Morgan needs to get his act together, even a simple thing like getting my sponsor correct was too much trouble and I even wrote it down three times, once on my entry form, I sent him an email from that awful contact page he has the cheek to call a web site and again when I signed on and still he got it wrong. Please how hard is it? I now see that posted on the web sites that i'm sponsored by Corwen Carpets just as well I know the company.
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