Riders lucky to escape without serious injury

Report by Steve Turner

Published 24^th March 2009 

The second round of the Maxxis British Championship took place at Langrish, Hampshire on 22nd March and both riders were fortunate to escape without serious injury as they both had big crashes on the under prepared, extremely dangerous track. Jordan ended the day with a dislocated ankle but it could have been a lot worse and both riders were lucky not to have ended up with season ending injuries

Qualifying

Jordan was impressive in qualifying posting the fastest time of any rider not doing GP’s leaving him with 6^th gate pick for the races. Nez was looking relaxed and confident during the free practice but just as the timed qualifying got underway he suffered a massive crash on one of the big drop-offs at the top of the circuit wrecking his bike in the process but unbelievably not himself. After limping back to the pits he managed to pull himself together and proceeded to achieve 24^th qualifying position albeit with his confidence severely dented.

Race 1

Jordan exited the first corner in 6^th but somehow Nez had managed to rail it right around the outside and come out two places ahead in 4^th. By the end of the first lap Jordan had moved up to 4^th and Nez had settled into 8^th but on the second lap he hit the deck at the end of the pit straight dropping him down to 13^th and after recovering to 11^th on lap six he went down again, this lime leaving him a lap down to eventually finish in 28^th.

Jordan looked pretty secure in 4^th in the early stages but as at Culham the week earlier he started to feel extremely tired after only ten minutes and was lucky to finish the race in 10^th as he struggled to hang onto the bike in the closing stages.

Blood tests have revealed an iron deficiency which he can start to treat and hopefully get himself back to full fitness for the next meeting.

Race 2

Jordan had a poor start by his standards and was only in 13^th at the end of the first lap. On the second lap as he made a move on Tom Church in the horrible valley section at the bottom on the circuit he came to grief, bashing his ankle on a post, ending his day in the process.

Nez had made an awful start and was down in 29^th but to his credit he battled throughout the whole race trying to survive without crashing whilst trying to make progress through the field at the same time. He eventually brought it home in 18^th place and was happy to drive away from Hampshire knowing that he wouldn’t have to ride the circuit again this year and looking forward to attacking his favourite track up at Brampton in the 3^rd round.