That was close!!!!!

I've got to say, i'm feeling pretty full of myself right this minute, i'm sat on a flight out to Spain for the next round of testing for this season, it's funny in a way, it literally feels like i never got the chance to go home, i guess in some ways i didn't because no sooner was i back from the last Almeria test we jumped in the car and headed down to our house in Spain for just under 2 weeks, then we got back to the UK late last Friday, i headed pretty much straight up to a Mac Tools function at Silverstone Saturday evening, back home early hours Sunday, spent the day with the kids on Sunday then today, Monday i'm back on a flight to Spain again, why though am i feeling pretty full of myself, well let's just say this trip nearly got off to a very  bad start, about 8-30am i went online to check in for my flight and whilst the website accepted my advanced passenger info etc it wouldn't let me pick a seat or actually check in, simply saying collect at check in desk, well, moving on, i went to said check in desk only to be told by the lady in orange, sorry sir, that flight's overbooked and because you didn't check in online you can't actually fly today, you'll have to be A, re routed or B get the next flight whenever that is, NOT GOOD!!!! Long story short then, after the same conversation with the customer services guy i managed to get myself on the flight despite him also being adamant i couldn't fly too, at best i could only be a reserve if somebody doesn't show, the long and the short of it was after being told "don't worry there could be up to €250 in compensation" i explained that wouldn't go very far towards the probable €15-20,000 my team would want in compensation after booking tests, paying to send trucks and staff etc, as i said, long story short i'm on the flight, it's all good!!!    

This test is going to be pretty interesting for me, whilst we don't have our "full on" 2015 bike as such there's been a lot of hard work done since the lat tests and going straight back to the track where we tried all of the prototype stuff will give us a definite answer and direction going forward, then, on an even more positive note we get to back to back the new stuff at two more tracks, Cartagena and Guadix, the latter from memory being far more like a BSB type of track even though it's probably been about 8 years or so since i was last there!!!

I'm going to try, i promise to update you guys after all three of the tests so for now i'm gonna kick back and look forward to riding tomorrow, talk to you soon, take it easy, Shakey#67