CEV: Aragon Race

The race day at the Motorland Circuit in Aragon Spain for Round 2 of the CEV finally saw a day without the high winds that had dogged the practice and qualifying sessions.

Brad had only been able to gain, for him, a rather lowly 26^thplace on the grid aboard the Larresport Honda and his warm-up pace was hampered by rather worn tyres and he improved only marginally over his previous times.

With the race now starting in near perfect weather conditions, his best hope was to try for a good start and get through to as high a position as possible, something that is not so easy but occasionally aided by others misfortune, crashes or machine failure. Things went partially to plan as at the end of lap one he had made 6 places, but from then on it was a lap by lap improvement that saw him at one time through to 15th place only to lose 2 places on last few laps and drop to a non points scoring 17^th. All his race lap times were better than qualifying and he set his fastest lap on the last lap trying to get back that 15^thplace. Some consolation was to be gained from the fact that he was one of the highest placed Honda machines with KTM dominating the front end of the field.

The next round is at the Albacete circuit onthe 21^stto 26^thJuneso a bit of a wait. Fortunately Albacete is a circuit not endowed with very fast straights so perhaps that will level things a little for the Hondas.