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lapousmor Jul 30, 2006

Dear all,

Time now for you to discover the afters of a race for a team who reached great ranks.

When a team is used to good ranks, controllers can get really annoying and will find every excuse to get very bad.

First a few words about how the races end.
Once this is the end of the race, a marshal show the end flag to the pilots and all the pilots direct themselves out of the circuit in a closed area where they have to leave their machines alone for the last check up.
the machines owning to the winning teams are checked much more seriously so kept more longer.

So back to what happened last race to "our" team.

the controllers asked our team to remove a few parts of the scooter and to remove the cooling liquid too.
first thing they became annoying with was the noise of the scooter. They were saying the scooter was too noisy but they did not follow the instruction for the checking of the noise: they placed their captor too closed to the scooter and they did not ask for the right acceleration level. so as a result of course, it appeared too noisy!!!!   
Then what drove all of us mad if their stupid behavior concerning the cooling liquid. Instructions were: forbidden to put any sugary or greasy component inside the liquid. Our team did put a blue additional component known to increase the cooling capability. this component was not sugary or greasy. BUT these stupid controllers kept saying it is greasy because they were thinking that blue colour was related to a greasy compound!!! they did not even know hom to check a liquid was greasy!!!! Oh dear what a story they did with that!   
What is the most strange is that if there had been something wrong with the cooling liquid, we would have been told BEFORE the race during the first check up!
so basically, our team was accused to cheat! We could not believe it! And some people watching were obviously beginning to believe it when hearing the rumor!

Here are the pictures i took during that stupid control after the race:

Here you can see the bad man (yellow shirt) first contesting about the noise of the scooter. The man with the white shirt is Claude. Thierry has the black shirt and Malko the green shirt. 

Here Claude is releasing the cooling liquid.

Here are pictures I took during the argument around the blue cooling liquid Thierry and Claude put in their scooter.

François and Lacen wondering when this argument will end.

Anyway, things eventually quieted down and we got our trophies.

The unfair point in that story is that the motorbike that won the general race was not checked like our scooter because they had planned to do the race the following day! So that means they have not been annoyed at all!!!

And i kept the best time of the day for the end: the podiums!

Enjoy!

A table full of cups!

We finished second at the general race (means all machines together): we got a trophy the shape of an helmet!  :dance:  :dance:  :dance: The winner was a motorbike 125 cube cm:

See: Lacen is playing with Valentino!!!!   

And we finished first in the scooter category!  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance: :

Our pilots were showing everybody wide smiles while they suddenly got attacked by dangerous terrorists with strange water guns!!!   

Didn't you recognized Bruno, who piloted with François and Lacen in a former race in Le Mans? The guy with the blue cap and the water gun!

And a free shower for everybody!

Poor Valentino got showered too!

To finish: 

Valentino and me: 

Time to go back home: we keep the nice trophy in an helmet shape to put it in the shop!

I hope you enjoyed that report!

Beary hugs,
Sophie.

SueAnn Help Advisor, Banner SponsorJul 30, 2006

Sophie . . . what an enormously fun report!!!  So glad that Valentino got to go to the races!  The photos and the story that goes with them are really interesting - thanks SO much for sharing the race with us!  LOVE that picture of you - you're so cute!

lapousmor Jul 31, 2006

Thanks so much!

It was a great fun to make that report.

Beary hugs,
Sophie.

clare14 Aug 5, 2006

Sophie I have so enjoyed reading all about your scooter races, and very well done for winning your trophy!!   :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:

Thank you for sharing with us!!!  :hug:  :hug:

sarahjane Aug 5, 2006

Sophie..thank you for your reports..it all sounds like so much fun!!!..Valentino looks like he fits right in.

Carolyn Green Aug 6, 2006

Hi Sophie,

Thanks so much for sharing your Scooter race photos and story.
Congratulations on winning the trophy.
What a fun day you must have had and it was good to see your smiling face and Valentino.

Hugs
Carolyn

Tammy Aug 6, 2006

Great pictures Sophie.  Sorry to hear about all the trouble after the race !!!  I am happy that it turned out o.k and congralations to your team on winning the trophy.  It looks like you all had a terrific time.  Thanks for taking the time to introduce us all to scooter racing !   It was fun  :dance: