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Dave Lyne wins first round at Tattershall

December 5, 2006 on 9:24 pm | In Jetski | Comments Off

Well I have to give a little space to my friend Dave, who’s just started jetski racing again after a few years break. He entered the beginner ski class on his newly aquired Kawasaki SXR. Here’s how Dave recounted his weekend’s success.

Well I entered the British Winter Series and went to the first round today at Tattershall. I got up at 4:30am to drive in 100 mph winds and torrential rain to the lake!! I shat my pants as I needed all three lanes, but I still got the van up to 120 miles an hour, no cars on the M1 of course!

The organisation’s still poor though. I got there at 7am as asked, to sign in and fill out all entry forms, but they weren’t ready until 8:30! What a waste of time!

Anyway, I warmed up with some laps then straight in to my first race, and bugger me I won by well over half a lap…. and I fell in…. and I got cramp in my calf as we were in the cold water for ages waiting!! (no change there either then - Rich) My god it hurt, I had to stand straight up. It looked comical as I was slowing to stretch out my leg then getting a bit of a squirt on.

In the second race I missed the start by a mile so another rider got the holeshot. He had a fast ski and he rode really well so I just settled in to the race. Then he missed a green splitter buoy so I kept to the course and he took the deviation buoy, by this time I was on the pace as I knew we would come on to the red buoy together, so I just held my line next to him and nailed it round two buoys. Then when we turned round a tight yellow by the club house I nailed the throttle again and pushed him until I got round him whilst taking another bouy and flew past in to the lead, then stretched my lead to about 5 buoys!!

It was the best overtake I have ever done and apparently it looked really spectacular!! Kev (Pope) and Will (Eatwell) were amazed. I won both races!!! Wicked!! I didn’t think I would come close!!

Well done Dave, roll on the next round for some more butt kicking.