A very very bad start to the day
I'm still coming to grips with my accident yesterday
No not on the bike ..............................................................................................
just a complete brain fart on my way to Eastern Creek for a track day with the rice rocket.
Half asleep ,sun not up ,in a hurry.
I was in my wife's Mercedes diesel Vito van all loaded up with track day "Mise en place "
In the servo I pull out the jerry can for bike fuel put it in front of the pump then took the fuel cap off her car
being very efficient time is of the essence .
Grab the hose from the bowser and instead of filling the jerry I put 80 Lt of premium in the van
Go back to the bowser to hang up what I thought was the diesel hose and huhh why is there no empty spot.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG FUCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.
Van is now completely make the beast with two backsed cant start it cant move it , now blocking the bowser in now what is peak hour rush
for all the suits needing fuel in there diesel VW golf's in St Ives.
Short story long rang a mate who was on his way to EC also and was just up the road.
After waisting half an hour moving the van and attempting to squeeze to race bikes onto a micro trailer
gave up took all the bikes and gear out then rented a servo trailer and off we go nearly two hours behind scheduale.
All the way out im on the phone renuing my wifes NRMA arranging a tow organizing a mechanical solution
with Benz as the car is needed first thing in the morning.
Okay take a big breath sweating from adrenalin lets focus on the track day , so by now we have concieded to
missing most likely two sessions.
At the track park do the paper work bikes through scrutaneering find an empty pit box empty the trailer set the bikes up .
Then we get the 5 min call for our group holly shit we are up , we havent missed any sessions
warmers on for 5 minutes bearly enough time leathers on and hit the track.
I had so much adrenalin going I was sure I would crash first corner.
But I didnt and we had an epic day with for me some of the fastest sessions I have ever done.
Lots of bad crashes though , I had one guy under take me on the dog leg before the last corner before the main straight then with him two meters from my front wheel watched him try to make the corner.
I was so transfixed by watching him sliding across my path in a shower of sparks I nearly target fixated and followed him into the litter. But didn't .
The end of the day was a nightmare getting trailers back bikes back to their destination thanking my mate Pete sit down and
crack an ice cold
Coopers which never tasted sooo good.
but it could of been way worse at the Merc dealer this morning he told me of an owner actually driving their diesel
with petrol in it and having a $12,000 repair bill
My mate who is a tow truck driver sais he gets 4-6 cars a week with this happening........so I feel a tiny tiny weeee bit less stupid.
Friday rant ....had to get that off my chest.
