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Today was a long day. It seemed like it dragged on. Not to mention I don\'t know where my head was today. I was running around taking pictures for the site, and when I went to download them, I had no compactflash card in it. So I was NOT taking pictures at all. It helps to check it sometimes, I had to run around and get the same ones again. (BTW, I got a new camera from Andorrs. Gemma got it for me, tax free whoo-hoo!)
John was already in pain from the crashes yesterday, and nothing was on his side today.
The race was red flagged with 13 laps to go cause\' of rain. So we had to go back out to the grid and do the whole grid thing again for the \"second\" race. Talk about a mad house! They have this new rule, where if it\'s red flagged, the riders must stop and go back into the garage. Then, we have to re-grid, cause\' you know they want a show put on, so we go and re-grid. It was a 13 lap race. Can\'t you just go in for 5 minutes, switch a tire and go back out. Must we all go back out? But hey, what do we know, or what do I know. I know it would abit easier for everyone to say the least.
Anyway, in the second race, Alex was in the lead. Olivier, Max, and Tohru had to start from the pit, but they ended up placing well. Alex was in the lead, and Sete took over. Then it was Rossi and they were all going back and forth. Alex ended up dropping back a bit but he got third. Vale and Sete were battling on the last lap, on the last corner. Vale ran abit wide and Sete came underneath him and it was almost a photo finish! Good battle. But before that, John crashed. He highsided again and landed on his injured shoulder. I hopped on the scooter and drove to where he was at, I couldn\'t get in though cause\' there was a gate. One guy was nice enough to open it and let me through so I could pick him up. When I called John, he was a bit dizzy and was walking funny towards me. He banged his head pretty good.
We rode back to the garage and watched the race, that\'s where we saw the battle with Sete and Vale. After, we went back to the motorhome and I helped John get out of his leathers, he can hardly move. It\'s just one of those shitty weekends.
The whole \"2nd\" race started because rain decided to start coming down for about 5-10 minutes, and then it went to sunshine again. What kind of crap is that? It was a strange day indeed.
Anyway, I\'m happy Gaz scored some points, he got 9th and deserved it. Kenny got 16th. Colin and Nori ended up going alright here so the 2nd race was in their favor. I guess it\'s favor or enemy here at this track cause\' it seemed to be John\'s this weekend.
Well I have to go check up on him, and hopefully we will fly to Austria tommorrow. He was suppose to test, but I highly doubt it now. Tuesday is our itenarary to fly but guess what? There\'s a strike, what\'s new? So like I said hopefully we\'ll fly out tommorrow, cause\' if that doesn\'t happen we fly on Wed morning. That\'s too long.
Talk to you later.
Des
