This is racing....

CIV 2011

ROUND 8

MUGELLO 20-23 s

Sunday 23-10-2011, race

It is not the end of the season we was expecting, but... this is racing baby... Vladimir Leonov lost the possibility to win the Championship in the middle of the last lap, just in the beginning of the second sector, of Mugello, the sector in wich he demonstraded during all week-end to be the absolutely faster rider...

He was second in that moment, preparing the attach for the victory, when the crazy Gregorini, fourth, tried to attach third and second position in one shot in the most difficoult point of the circuit, the Casanova-Savelli esse in downhill... He overtook the fourth rider, but doing it lost the front of his bike, hitting the rear tyre of Leonov, pushing our Vladimir out of the asphalt.

We was not sure to win the race, we was not sure to win the championship, but it is not the end we was expecting...

It is sad, to write this story today. It is sad to talk about race and results just one hour after the Simoncelli dead. 
We was prepared to an happy party. We cannot do it. Not because we finished the race in seventh position, loosing even the second place in championship (gone to Russo, second after the new italian champion, Lombardi).
We cannot do it because all team is astonished of the Simoncelli dead.

But one thing we wanted to do and we did: to celebrate this emotional and fantastic season of Yakhnich Motorsport team with the t-shirt prepared for the eventual championship winning.

Because for all of us Leonov is the champion, and Yakhnich Motorpsort team is the best.