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鈥淎fter missing the Scottish round last year, I was determined to make it this year.

鈥淭he track was a tight and technical motocross track with lots of jumps. We were running the track backwards this year, and the jumps were not ideal for hitting fast, so a little more thought had to go into choosing lines.聽

鈥淲ith the track being tight and overtaking difficult, a good qualifying position was essential.

鈥淚 managed to get a couple of clean laps in early before I started hitting traffic, but felt that there was definitely a few more seconds to be shaved off in regards to lap times once I got up to full race speed. Unfortunately, traffic and the rain starting put paid to any cleaner laps.聽

鈥淚 qualified second behind my teammate Mark McCann in his Turbo. I was happy with that 鈥撀爏etting the fastest time for a non-turbo in the Open class.

鈥淢e and McCann got away well in race one and gapped the rest of the pack and I had a steady drive to finish second.

鈥淚t was more of the same for the second race, with McCann and myself getting away from most of the pack and Tom Welbourne pushing hard behind us in third, keeping us on our toes. I even had a little scare when Tom got past me when I jokered, as I was unsure if Tom had used the joker lane himself yet, but he hadn鈥檛 and I got past him when he jokered on the next lap. I finished this race second.

鈥淩ace three was a carbon copy of the previous races, only this time I managed to build a gap big enough on third place to make sure I could do the joker lane without losing any places. I once again finished second.

鈥淚 finished second overall on the day behind McCann, gaining some well-needed championship points to move me up the table after missing the last Open class round.

鈥淭hanks again to everyone that has helped me.鈥�