after qualifying on saturday in brilliant sunshine we were all called to the staging area just after 9 am on sunday for the first round of eliminations.

then it started raining. and raining.

i ended up with a bus full of racers sheltering from the rain in shifts between braving the weather to buy styrofoam cups of tea. (amid protestations from certain racers girlfriends of ‘it’s nice this is, why can’t you race a bus?’)

the rain and cold weather meant that there was a delay of nearly four hours while the track was dried and prepped ready for racing. luckily while i was waiting in the staging area behind the start line i pulled the curtains and pulled out the bed and got another half hours sleep in the back of the bus.