Fort William World Cup 2012

Last weekend was round three of the 2012 World Cup series at Fort William in Scotland. This is my third visit to the venue for World Cup competition and I was excited and nervous. I really like Fort William as a venue and a track. It gets the biggest crowds of any World Cup races and had over 30000 visitor tickets sold this year.

I really enjoyed practise on the track. I was dry for Friday and Saturday and the track was running supper fast and rough. I had a great qualifying run and came down with a 4.49.084. This put me in to 49^th place. I was so happy to have such a good result in qualifying and was excited to be riding in Sundays final.

Rain over night was pretty exciting as I love riding in the wet. The rain dose weird things to the track in Scotland. It makes some parts of the track grippy and some more slippery. One thing for sure is that the muddy woods section is very slippery!

Unfortunately I had a mechanical in my race run and lost my chain about a third of the way down so had to role the whole of the bottom section. I finished 55^th with is a great result for me with no chain. I have now moved up to 49^th in the overall World Cup rankings.