James East Donington Park Race Report


Practice

5th 1:37.997 James settles in to the Donington Park GP circuit after not visiting the circuit in 2 years. Had some trouble with the bikes handling in the session though.

Qualifying 1

7th 1:37:137 James improves but had troubles throughout the session, the clutch on the R6 has began to break up and wasn’t engaging properly making it very difficult for James to get in to the turns.

Qualifying 2

7th, The clutch problem is solved on the bike but James has a crash on lap 4 of the session at Craner Curves, he’d not be able to re join and stays in the 7th spot for the grid, 2nd row.

Race 1 ( Oulton Re Run )

In a manic effort to get the bike repaired in time for the race on Saturday afternoon, James just makes it out for the race in time but has to start from the back of the grid.

Easty makes up 9 places on the first lap and another 6 by lap 3 but on lap 4 the rear brake on his Yamaha had boiled up and locked on solid forcing James to retire at the old hairpin.

Warm Up

James puts in 5 laps and has no troubles with the bike at all, with a few suspension changes Easty was confident for race 2.


Race 2

Starting from P7 James gets a decent start holding his line on the inside in the first corner.

Easty moves up to 6th on lap 2, in a close race around his championship rivals James makes a pass on lap 6 to move in front of Russo, and lap 10 moves ahead of Keith Farmer at McLean’s, but re passed after a small mistake at Starskys bridge. Farmer made a mistake the same lap again and James fired through past Deane Brown also up to 3rd place on the exit of Goddard’s.

After all the hard work with catching up with Brown and Farmer, James had worked up some painful arm pump making it very difficult to feel the throttle.

After a small mistake at the Melbourne loop Wainwright and Brown come past and James would finish the hard fought race in 5th place.


James- “ After a seemingly disastrous weekend I am happy with the result of race 2 and happy with the way I rode, even though It was very difficult to push through the arm pump, I kept everything as smooth as possible and maintained my pace. I will be working on my fitness between now and Silverstone where I’m going to be pushing for my first win. Thank you to everyone involved. “

Homechoice Carpets

Economy Motor Spares

GHM Services

Idaq.com

R&G Racing

Cougar Leathers