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Drama For Reid At British Opener

Drama For Reid At British Opener
The fantastic Grand Prix Circuit at Porters Pit, Desertmartin, provided the venue to kick-start the 2010 Goldspeed ACU British Quad Championship at the weekend, Quad Racing Ireland promoting a double header and rounds 1 and 2 of the series on Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th of May. With most of the best riders Europe converging on the beautifully prepared circuit and clear blue skies overhead, the stage was set for some thrilling action as the thirty-two strong field battled it out over the two days.
Travelling the relatively short distance from his base in Comber to the challenging sand based track, Reid and the Justwin Racing team had their sights firmly focused on a good start to the season at their home event, but unfortunately for Reid a freak incident in the opening race was to ruin any chance of a good result.
Lining up in 7th position on the grid for heat one, Reid got fantastic drive off the line and rounded the first corner 6th as the field charged out on the first lap of the twenty minute plus two-lap moto, and using the excellent handling of the Justwin Racing Can-Am from the outset began to work his way towards the front to complete the first full circuit in 5th. Gradually increasing his pace as the track came to him, Reid set a blistering pace taking 4th fastest time of the race in the process as he fought his way towards the front, involved in a furious battle with Paul Winrow with the pair swapping positions twice on lap three, before Reid made 4th position his own and began to pull away from the current champion. Finding new lines and constantly closing in on the leading trio ahead, Reid was poised to move in to a podium position with four laps left to run, when disaster struck, one of the leading group stopping dead on landing over the fast step up with Reid already airborne on the same line and unable to avoid the resultant collision and crash. Quickly getting to his feet and with a lot of pain in his wrist, a quick survey of his stricken machine showed the impact had completely sheared the steering tie rod preventing further participation in the race, a quick trip to the medical centre to get checked over ruling out any further racing for the weekend with a suspected broken wrist.

Reid
‘This has been a nightmare start to my championship campaign. I got a pretty good start from the extreme inside of the gate and was surprised at how good my pace was as I’ve been recovering from a broken scaphoid that I picked up during the winter Supercross series. Paul Winrow came past on the second lap but I was able to pass him back on the next lap and pull a bit of a gap. As the race progressed I was just concentrating on riding smoothly, as I knew that this was going to be a long weekend with 6 races in 2 days, but I was closing in on 2nd and 3rd places. With about 3 or 4 laps to go I really started to push but as I crested the uphill double I saw Holmes sitting stationary right where I had spotted to land. My quad hit his before I had even touched the ground – so there was absolutely nothing that I could do to avoid it. I’ve broken my left wrist and also fractured a small bone in my right wrist so I’m afraid I’ll be sitting out the rest of this weekend. It’s seven weeks to the next round so it’s doubtful that I will be up to speed by then but the main focus is on getting healed properly now and you never know!’

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