The weather had improved slightly but the track was still wet, no standing water and i'd backed off the suspension and was feeling confident.Lights had changed and we were off, again it wasn't a great start but not too bad, i'd slipped into 5th going into Gerrards but as i powered out i was on the tail of 4th and you guessed it i was through on the brakes into Edwina's and back upto 4th, so now i was back to 4th and i was determined to get 3rd.
The bike was handling much better and was holding the gap on 3rd and slowly gaining ground.
I felt more confident in the conditions and was pushing harder and harder, lap by lap i was gaining on 3rd, the adrenalin was pumping and this was it. I was a couple of seconds from 3rd and as we passed the start finish line the last lap flag was out, i had one thing on my mind and that was 3rd!
Round Gerrard's and i clawed even more ground back, upto Edwina's and now i was right up behind him nearly touching distance, through Edwina's then hard on the gas then..........
I had high sided coming out, i had only one thing on my mind to get into 3rd and i'd just tried to hard.
I'd landed on my right shoulder and to be honest my first feeling was i'd broke my collar bone and the back of my left hand felt like it was bleeding, and my right heel was killing me.
After about 10 mins or so i was finally lifted into the ambulance, i was more concerned about my brother watching, he must have thought the worst as i had the medics holding a sheet around me so no one could see what was happening.
In the medical centre they thought i'd dislocated my right shoulder and told me i was to get myself to A&E.
Re united with my brother and speaking to my girlfriend on the phone i reassured them i was fine, as we were putting things away over the loud speaker i heard that i had won the Novice of the Day trophy!!!!!!!
I was in agony but was really happy i'd won a trophy but deep down gutted because i knew i should have had a 3rd place trophy as well.
