Misano CIV 21-23.8.2009

Míra was looking forward with a respect to his firs “adult” GP race in Misano. He received a wild card for this race. He was playing a racing computer game in Misano racing course, so he will get faster in familiarizing with the real course. This finally turned out as a good solution and at the end of his getting known trainings Míra was performing very good times as a newie to this course. In the first qualification training on Saturday Míra was trying to make some fast laps, but in the first sector he was always one sec. slower, which was quite much. Even though he finally managed to get 13th position 1,8 sec behind the leader. Míra wanted to be better for the second qualification, so we modified his gearbox slightly. This finally turns out as inappropriate in the complicated 1st sector and Míra did not manage to get faster. Finally he got the 14th place (fourth row), which was fair. We modified the gearbox back to its original setting. On Sunday Míra was told not to break the motorbike, so he was 22nd. The Sunday´s race was Míra entering quite nervous, the reason was, that he was not sure about the Start on Aprillia, which he did not manage in the last junior´s race. Short briefing of right usage of the clutch and gas was given to Míra in the box during the lunch time by the manager and team chief. This was finally a good decision and Míra managed the start very well. In the first half of the race Míra was among the first 13 riders and tried to keep in the group. He lost much time and energy in the second half of the race while making the same mistakes nearly in each lap and finally tried to catch up all. This was on account of the fact that this was his first time on this course and of course early beginnings on Aprillia GP. Finally Míra managed to create a jump and he was waved as 7th. The delight and joy was huge, our goal when arrived to Misana, was to get qualified and not to be laped. Míra managed to achieve shorter time during the race by 0.1sec, so he performed better than in qualification. This was also nerve racking for me as a parent on a box roof, when I saw his drives out to grass behind curbs close to fall. Finally Míra managed all well and I could go downstairs into the box and congratulate and get my trembling legs into the right shape.