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Reid Podiums At Drama Filled Opener
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Reid Podiums At Drama Filled Opener
After a long winter in preparation for the 2010 race season, Comber rider Justin Reid and the newly formed Justwin Racing team travelled to the outskirts of Desertmartin recently, Ballymoney & District MCC promoting the opening round of the six round 2010 Nutt Travel Ulster Premier Quad Championship at the spectacular Grand Prix circuit at Porters Pit on Saturday the 3rd of April.
Despite heavy rain and snow in the week prior to the event threatening to postpone the meeting, the sand-based circuit held up well in less than optimum conditions to provide the large crowd in attendance with some exciting racing throughout the day.
Taking part in his first competitive Championship action of the year, Reid was quick to show that his pre-season preparations had not suffered adversely from an eight week layoff with a broken Scaphoid, taking the Justwin Racing Can-Am DS450 Xmx to 3rd fastest time in qualification just five hundredths of a second off pole. Getting good drive off the line for the first twenty minute plus one lap moto, Reid gated 5th around the sweeping right hander and immediately began to work his way through the pack, moving up to 3rd as he broke the timing beam for the first time. Pushing hard in the difficult conditions and battling for the lead, Reid moved up to 2nd with just over five minutes gone and was well placed for the lead when disaster struck, the left front wheel catching a soft patch on one of the fastest parts of the circuit and pitching the quad sideways, Reid battling to save the situation but unable to do so and taking a nasty spill. Working furiously to pull his quad from a deep drainage ditch alongside the circuit, Reid lost two laps to the lead before getting underway in 25th position, but showing true guts and determination battled through to 20th at the chequered flag for an all important championship point.
A fantastic start to the closing race of the day saw Reid take the holeshot and lead the field out on the first of twelve flying laps. Quickly finding his rhythm and setting a blistering pace at the front, Reid became involved in a three way battle for the lead and held position until the halfway point, moving in to 2nd with the three becoming two in the latter stages, Reid pegging the gap to the leader to two seconds as he pulled a twenty second lead over 3rd, taking the Justwin Racing Can-Am DS450 Xmx to the chequered flag after twenty-two furious minutes for a superb podium finish and 9th overall on the day.
Reid
‘Although I’ve been training hard, the weather conditions haven’t allowed for much riding in the last couple of weeks, in fact it’s a wonder that there was racing at all here today, so I definitely felt a little rusty. The club however did a fantastic job to make it happen. The fall was totally my fault in the first moto – the track was just very hard to read and I got sucked into a soft patch and over corrected slightly.
I really should’ve won the second moto but I was a little tentative after the fall in the first so I’m happy enough with the points for second.’
Results
Race One
1st – David Wray, 2nd – Michael McAneney, 3rd – David Cowan, 4th – Jonny Kelly, 5th – Terence Mackin…20th – Justin Reid (Justwin Racing Can-Am)
Race Two
1st – David Cowan, 2nd – Justin Reid (Justwin Racing Can-Am), 3rd – Sean Goss, 4th – David Wray, 5th – Jonny Kelly
Championship Standings after Round 1 (of 6)
1st – David Cowan 45, 2nd – David Wray 43, 3rd – Michael McAneney 37, 4th – Sean Goss 35, 5th – Jonny Kelly 34…9th – Justin Reid 23
Next Race: Saturday 17th / Sunday 18th April 2010 - 2010 GOLDSPEED EMX Quad European Championship Round 2, Langrish MX Circuit, Near Petersfield, Hampshire
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