Hi all, hope your loving the new site as much as me! (thanks wayne!) My preperation for 2012 is going well, just a few meetings to wrap things up and we’re good to go!

I’m pleased to say that most of my sponsors from previous years are continuing their support which i’m so gratefull for and  hopefully a few new sponsors aswell.  I will list all 2012 sponsors when their all confirmed.

For now it’s back to testing the new machinery,

speak soon

Daryl

The first rounds of the sprint went OK for me, after a not so good ride at the muntjack I really wanted to get back to how I should be riding. The first day wasn’t going to bad until a big crash left me seeing stars and I lost 2 minutes in one test, the second day went OK, I had a sore neck from a bit of whiplash but managed to get 4th so it wasn’t to bad.   I felt good at rounds 3 and 4, it was a bit of a shame that the course was so fast in places as I think my pace was good and I was only loosing out on the long straights.

Since the sprints I was lucky enough to find a new practice area which is local to me, it was built and is used by a top MX2 British and World championship rider and with the lighter nights coming in hopefully some speed training is going to benefit me.

I’m feeling good for the next rounds of the British sprint championship so hopefully things will go good and we will get a good results.

See you at Rogershill Raceway in 2 weeks,

Daryl

Hi all,

I haven’t managed to keep up with the website recently due to being very busy at work, and also I moved house I didn’t have the internet for a while.

Anyway the the pre season training went really well and the new bike is awesome, the first British champs at the Muntjack didn’t go to plan, I can’t put my finger on what went wrong but everything I done seemed to go against me and the harder I tried the worse I rode, it was a case of damage limitation and put it down to a bad weekend and take away any positives we can out off it.

I rode a track n trail last weekend and after the Muntjack I made a few small changes to try and help and they seemed to of worked. The new venue at Matterly Basin was awesome, The first hour I was racing around with Matt Ridgeway and where the course went in the woods it was difficult to pull time with the slower riders, but as the field thinned out I managed to put in some good laps and started to ride like I should be riding, hopefully I can continue this into next weeks sprint enduro at Monmouth.

Daryl

Hi all,
The start of the winter break didn’t go so well for me, I rode a race at the beginning of December as a bit of fun and managed to do three laps before I caught my foot and ruptured a ligament in my ankle. I was told by the doctors that I had been lucky to get away with what I did and had my Gaerne boots to thank as he said that they save my ankle from getting smashed up.

So after 7 weeks of being ‘good’ and not riding I finally picked up my new 250xcf the other week and had a good ride at the under 23′s training weekend. The new bike is absolutely amazing, I can’t believe how good it is as a standard machine, I’m really looking forward to doing some testing over the next few weeks and can’t wait to get to the first round already.  The bike as a whole with the new fuel injection, the linkage and new chassis works really well together, it feels so good to ride.

The next few weeks will hopefully be positive and we will make the right moves towards the start of the season, the KORR team is now a direct team for KTM UK and therefore we have some sponsor changes which I will put on when I get their logos, we also can have a select few personal sponsors so if your interested in helping me out and getting involved with a British and European championship winning team then drop me an email.

Daryl

Hi all,
it’s taken a while to get this last report out as its been busy enough with the bike season coming to an end and having to arrange all sorts of things for next year, but also I had a major work commitment that I had to do.

Firstly the Natterjack, I knew it was going to be a hard event as Paul Eddy wanted the British E1 title as much as I did, and I wanted it bad!  I was asked to help out in a digger and after the army plotted the test I put in a few Jumps and berms, which everybody enjoyed I think.  The event was my favourite of the year, I like the sand and both tests were really good to ride, and good for spectators!

The racing was also good, me and Paul were fighting for every test, he would beat me, I would beat him, it was a case of who was going to make the first mistake and yes, I made the first mistake, a small encounter with a hidden stump made me overshoot a corner and I lost 8 seconds to Paul.  The next couple of tests we set the same times so for me it was all or nothing on the last enduro test where I had a near perfect run through the woods and won the test outright but I didn’t quite get Paul, I beat him by 7.7 seconds on the test but on the day he had me by 0.3 seconds and in doing so the championship would be won or lost on the last day.

For the second day they reversed the enduro test but the rest was the same so the gloves came off and we went at it again, there was nothing between us, if I beat him by 2 seconds he would beat me by 2 seconds on the next test, again it would be who made the first mistake, we were racing on the limit and it was hard not to make mistakes but nearing the end of the day I was 4 seconds up, we went into the last moto x test and I was given the signal Paul was on flyer and 3 seconds up on me before the halfway in the test, I just went for it as hard as I could, I mist a corner in the wooded bit and when I got to the end I was expecting to play catch up in the last test, but this time Paul had made the mistake and had a small crash and we ended up setting the same time, again! So it was the very last test of the championship and there was 4 seconds in it, for the spectators it must have been great to have a championship so close, for me the pressure was on, we both set of and I rode 100% and just prayed I didn’t make a mistake, I had a signal from Julian about 400yards from the end I was 3 seconds up and just as I took a sigh of relief I clipped a root 3 corners from the end and bashed into a tree, luckily I didn’t crash but knew I had lost time, I got to the end and ended up beating Paul by 0.3 of a  second on the test, I eventually retained the British E1 title by 4 and a half seconds.

Massive thanks to everybody who has helped me to win this year, its been a great year and a great team effort.