June 2011

will try to get more photos of my actually riding Erzberg over time ... thanks in advance to Jo Wolframm / dr-dirt.de for this one! THis one is of me conquering 'Dynamite' section - one of the last nasty sections, so I was pretty exhausted!

and thanks to Red Bull for this one where I look dead ...

Race day, the big one, is finally here. It's been raining all night and shows not much sign of letting up to be honest! We are all pretty nervous. I am feelin good but man, those rocks and those wet, wet forest sections look tough as all hell.

I guess that's what we should expect but Erzberg is a racet hat definitely gets harder each year! Me, Darryl, Riaan and Scotty are all on the front row which is a good thing.

THink fast thoughts for us, we are just going to give it our best and all finish!!

So we are on Saturday of Erzberg now, I've completed the prologue, both attempts and am feeling good. No crashes - which is great, as heaps are crashing out on the second run today.

What else - the weather has been very 'Aucklandish' - rain, cold, then sun ... but we are pretty happy still. Hoping for no rain tomorrow for main race day - not even I want rain!

There are some big names here this year - Taddy, Cyril, Letti, Lampkin, Taichi, and of course me (hmmm).

Thankfully the right people have spoken to the right people and the wrong people are no longer doing the wrong things to the right people.

Everything has come right and me and the rest of the SA guys are now able to race Erzberg without fear of loosing our race licence's. Obviously this is a huge weight of my mind and I can now concentrate on conquring the iron giant. A huge thanks to the people involved in resolving this and to everyone who sent messages of support.

Its raining heavily here at Erzberg, lovely!