Prolog

Today was a long day of waiting for my start … first approval of all documents and so on, then technical approval of the bike, of course everything went fine of all no chain no gain members!

Later on we had a bike corso along the coast and a foto shooting … it is definetly to warm already for sitting on running bikes with full protection clothing for 2 hours.

Finally we got in the back country for the qualifing. The start is always with one minute delay of each rider and the last years best riders are the first 10 then they went on after the starting numbers we got. Luigi was 7th, me 65th and Peter 66th (the number of the beast – nearly)

Peter and I had a sensational result. Peter finished at 30th out of 85th and I finished at 29th palce – although I missed one turnoff and had to do a uturn at the next crossing when I realized that this is the wrong way;-)

Due to the fact that this is the starting row for tomorow I have on more hour time to start. Slowest from the day before have to start first.

As you see in the pictures section the road book for tomorrow is enormous! It looks like that tomorrow will be the longest distance (we only get next day roadbook after we give back the old one). We have an offroad way of 280km for tomorow with 2 special tests/sections!

Once again good night Nik

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