WALKER
WHANGANUI ROUND THREE
Round 3 was held at the legendary Whanganui Cemetery Circuit . It started off hammering down with rain and was extremely slippery for the first two practices but dried nicely in time for qualifying . I was feeling pretty good , getting a nice flow going and rode at a comfortable pace . To my surprise , I qualified a in 3rd which I was over the moon with . Going into Race 1 I was feeling really good and got an awesome start sliding into first for a little , but hit the curb and slipped back to 4th . On that same lap I pushed hard to take back 3rd at Robert Holden , then by the second lap the leader had fallen off slotting me into 2nd , which I held for the rest of the race . I was pretty much speechless going from 10th to 2nd within a week , and I knew I had a good chance at taking the overall . In Race 2 I pulled a wheelie off the start line which pushed me down to 5th , but felt good and overtook a few more riders at Robert Holden to take another 2nd place . While I was passing the winner of Race 1 , he tried going around the outside of me and crashed , and the winner of the Race 2 fell off in Race 1 , giving me the overall win for the day . I found the track like a motocross track on tarmac and had so much fun . I could not believe I went from 10th overall the week before to 1st overall , and this was only my seventh day ever riding a road bike . What an unbelievable weekend !
WALKER