Went to the TT yesterday and had a great day (dispite the rain during the rain).
Met a mate of mine in Den Oever and we rode to Assen over the
afsluitdijk. We went to the rear entrance as this was closer to where we wanted to be. Anyway parking is free but it's all in fields so we had to make sure that our stands wouldn't sink in the ground. Luckily we found an old can which my mate used (I had taken my own plastic "stand holder").
We sat at Mandeveen (top of map), the place where Rossi overtook Marquez last year
Well the weather had been pretty good uptil now.
We got settled just before the Moto 3 race started. The weather was fine for this race. During the Moto 2 race, which had been declared a "dry" race the rain arrived
Anyway the race got stopped with the current positions counting as the result.
The Moto GP race was declared a "wet" race but started as normal. It was really slippery, and several people crashed out. Lorenzo was extra careful after a crash he had during practice and was quite far behind. Yes it was wet (the rain was coming down quite hard by now), but when a couple more people crashed out the race organisors decided it was too dangerous to race on, so they stopped the race. They waited a while until it got dry again and then restarted the race, for a while it was unclear as to what was going to happen. Riders were lined up on the grid in order of position (when the race was stopped), which I thought was unfair as there had been quite some distance between some of the riders, but this was not accounted for.
Anyway off they went again. Well although the track officials had been sweeping away the surface water it was still really wet out there which resulted in a lot of people sliding out, among others Rossi, who slid off in front of our noses. Rossi tried together with the track officials to get the bike working again but to no avail. After that he was taken back to the pits on the back of one of the track officials bikes (see photo).
Well after the race we stayed to watch the red bull/KTM championships race, and then we went back to our bikes. As the weather was now sunny we decided to head to Lemmer via the backroads. After having a meal here we went to Stavoren, and then directly home.
Here are a couple of my better pics :
Rossi
Andrea iannone
Three on a bike
Rossi fails to get his bike started.
Rossi riding pillion
