Hello to all bikers and motorsport-freaks out there,
my dad droved in his young years semi rally championship, so I grew up with motorsports. My first experience with motorsports was in the early 90s when my dad took me to several stockcar, speedway and rally races. At this time the impressions changed from astonishment to passion. My brother, my dad and me went to nearly 20-30 events a year and looked how my father droved those cars. We also helped setting up this cars/bikes so we all gained a lot of experience in that and I never forget the smell of the boiled hot oil, the heated engines and the exhaust gases. When I was old enough, I think it was 5 or 6, my dad bought me a little motocrossbike to learn how to drive, this was greater for me than all what I have been there before. I learned very quick so with my eight birthday I droved my first race not very competitive but with much dedication :). My mother was never on the tracks she always gots angry when my dad took us to those events and when she saw that my dad bought me a bike she freaks out and we leaved for about two weeks our home and we lived with my grandparents. When we leaved I knew the marriage of my parents is fucked up so the divorce is the logical conclusion. My addiction to motorsports never stopped and I counted the days to get my driving license, when I was 15 my first legal vehicle was a speedfight. I droved with this scooter in one year about 12.000km and at my next birthday I got a another license to drive 125ccm 40hp(ps) bikes so the decision was a Cagiva Mito 125 EVOVII. This was a really nice bike, it is built from several parts from Ducati and it looks like a small 998 it has hardly the same chassis. I`ve worked and tuned this bike for months by myself this was a great satisfaction because my two best friends also got one :). We worked saturday for saturday to keep up our bikes at the highest level. My friend pushed his mito so hard that he gots 50hp in a bike which weights only about 110kg, I even can remember the cagiva slogan "Cagiva Mito, the road burnes!", with our bikes this slogan was true. But everything got a negative side, we all had accidents and injuries because we always raced at the limit. We all grew old but the passion never approved. Nowadays me and my friends all got very strong bikes but we all drive more responsible then we did in the past. When we meet together we often talk and laugh about old stories and injuries but this ain`t funny if you had to feel the pain on your own. I`m glad and I thank my father doing this to me because if I wouldn`t driven long time before I started with big bikes - I would be dead. I guarantee if anyone got a bike with 180hp from the beginning without any experience, within two months he either wakes up in hospital or he`s six feet under and his friends can meet him on the gravejard.
This shouldn`t frighten people in case of motorsports but this is the reality. Please collect as much as experience you can and please didn`t make the mistake which I described.
own the racetrack!