Valencia - circuit Ricardo Tormo - training 21.2.2009

…after almost three months of not being on circuits was Mira called at the end of February for the first tests. He started getting known with a new motorbike Metrakit 125 PREPG. This year the winter brake was colder than usual,it took two monts and the average temerature was ten degree Celsius and the often rains moved trainings to the south of Spain. Initially the training should take place on the Albacete circuit, it is one of the hardest circuits in Spain, which was good for us. The trained kilometres and experince from such a circuit are always useful. After the arrival to Barcelona, the owner of the team, who picked us up at the airport, informed us, that we had to move to Valencia. More suprising was, that Mira hadn´t recieved the new motorbike from Metrakit, the new 125ccm, so he had to ride this training on his last year’s motorbike 80ccm. Our first reactions on these changes were a little bit negative, but how kilometres to Valencia run, we got used to it. Finally it was good, because we could compare last and this year’s times. Saturday’s sunny beautiful morning and temperatures about twenty degrees of Celsius were for us nearly Eskymos after the long white winter in The Czech Republic, like when you tank the full tank of your car. Trainings began according to the owner´s request gradually,“no press, slowly accelerate, you have the whole day for it“. Míra rode almost 300km in the whole training day and he imrpoved the time approximately by 0,5s per a lap. That was a very possitive new, this was his first time after such a long brake, and he managed such a time! It was more than pleasant. Test’s would had finished very well. Unfortunately in the last training heat, in one curve came another rider on 600ccm motorcycle, who was probably too long for his brakes and hit Mira from the inner side so tightly that Mira was knocked down and the rides himself ended in the cowlick. Fortunately Míra was ok and his motorcycle was only scratched, but otherwise a needless stroke.