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This weekend was the Ducati Club Race in Assen. The 27th time the event was there. In the past riders from all over the world, have participated. So was there the Britten a few times to name one. A lot of raceclasses are Ducati only, but there has always been space for other Italian makes. Two classes with a lot of international participation are the Sound of Thunder and Supermono. Both are part of an international championship.
In the past there have always been Moto Guzzi´s in the Class named BEARS. There was the
Swallower Guzzi, The Dr. John prototype, Jens Hofmann with his Dynotec Guzzi, Raceco> Daytona and others. What has changed over the years is the way bikes are build. Now the bikes out of the shop are so fast you can win a race with a good driver on it.

Last year the MGS01 was for the first time in Assen. Guaro had a few laps training on the track and went to third place, a very good result considered that other bikes in the class were much more expensive tuned and had drivers that have been often on the Assen track.
The Assen track has a new layout this year, everyone has the same track, in the past the Moto GP had a longer track. So this year the Dutch Guzzisti had great expectations.
The first training started, Guaro finished it sixt place, 3.5 seconds behind. Then the second training, Guaro was only 1.6 seconds behind the first. That was promising.
End of the day there was the third training, but after 6 laps, Guaro had to stop. The MGS01
didn´t work anymore as it should. After the engine cooled, it didn´t take long to find that there was no quick fix, and there wasn´t a spare engine. It´s not a big problem, but if you don´t have
the parts, it stops. As papa Guareschi pointed out earlier this day, the engine was complete
stock, and didn´t have any problem before.

I had a race myself in the Thunderbears class. There are no Ducati, they have their own class. What there was were mostly RSV Mille. My Daytona has the same power as an MGS01, only I´m not a driver like Guaro. So I had the last starting position on the grid. My start was very good, and I was halfway the field after the first corners. There is a long straight, and the Daytona was as fast as the RSV´s. After that, in the corners, I´m a bad driver so they passed me, but some needed 4 laps before they could pass me. In the end I left 2 behind me, and had a fastest lap, 5 seconds under my training best. It made my day.

All times and results are here:
http://www.tt-assen.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=129268