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Photo - What is the image that Kurtis Roberts is showing DA?
Not far from San Diego California was the 6th round of the American
Supermoto Championship, set up in a parking lot of the Del Mar Fairground. This is how my weekend went.
TIME QUALIFICATION - 7th
HEAT RACE - 4th
FINAL - 6TH
COMMENTS:
It rained really hard from 1am in morning till 8am and practice was delayed
for 2 hours so the AMA officials could drain the water from the track. In my
heat race I got a 4th place start and worked my way closer to battle for 3rd place. I tried to pass into third on the last lap but ran wide and went back into
4th.
It started to rain a little before the start of the final so we were unsure
which tires to fit in the bike for the final. I took the chance and went
with the slicks.
As I was on the second row I started not to bad but in the second corner a
rider went down and I got stuck on his bike. Once I got going I was in 8th place and within 3 laps I was up into 5th and just on the fight for 3rd position. I was
pushing hard but could not stay with Dymond and Carlson and with 5 laps to
go French rider David Baffeleuf passed me along the start straight and I
finished 6th.
I was happy to finish 6th and am now back to 8th in the Championship. As
this is my first year racing this sport. I still feel I can be on the
podiums, but I just need to work a little harder the next 3 weeks before the
final round in Las Vegas.
Thank you to all of you for your suport.
Kind Regards,
Darryl Atkins
Team HMC KTM
