Worcester 18/4

First meeting of 2010 after all the rained off early meetings, it was nice to get there and find a nice dry day and the track in perfect condition, both the 250 & 500 JRM's had no winter testing plus Harland last sat on a bike at the beginning of Oct 2009 so the nerves were jangling to say the least.

Practice showed that both bikes were flying and Harland looked as good as if he had ridden the week before, but as the meeting wore on it showed that all the winter gym training is no substitute for being race fit.

Harland and the 250 JRM were untouchable in all their heats and final, with straight race wins through the race card, this gave us the coveted
"Worcestershire Three Pears Flyer" 250 Trophy.

The 500 class started well with a first heat win, followed by two second places in the remaining qualifying heats, this gave us third gate choice for the final, it was now starting to show that Harland was physically tiring fast.

The 500 final consisted of just about all the countries top national, plus a couple of UK international riders.  As the tapes went up the race was led by international Martin Sturgeon, closely followed by Tim Nobes, Jamie Rogers and Harland all in very close contention, Nobes and Rogers managed to pass Sturgeon and a now tiring Harland finished a very creditable 4th.

For the first meeting of a new season we could not have asked for more (well perhaps a podium on the 500 would have been nice) the gearing was set at the beginning of the meeting and a spanner was not raised to both bikes for the rest of the day.