Brendan Roberts

Hi

Seen as I’ve not written on my site for a while I’d thought I’d give you all a quick update. Firstly Happy New Year to everyone, the days are rolling into one and it’s already mid January! I’ve had a few messages via my site about what I’m doing this year and I can confirm that once again I’ll be riding for the Ducati Xerox Junior Team in the 1000 European Superstock class again.

I’m looking forward to this year and hopefully it will go without any hitches unlike last year. 2007 started off badly for me as I broke my wrist in February last year and all season I was fighting with being fully fit and still suffer with a fair bit of pain in my right wrist, something I’ve been told by the doctors that I will suffer with it for a long time.

My wrist is much stronger than what it was last year and I just want to get back out and race and get back to the form that I showed during 2006 and visit the podium a few more times this season. I would like to thank all the people that stood by me whilst I was injured and also all the guys at the Junior Team for being so supportive and giving me another chance to prove myself this year, it also gives me more time to add to my expanding Italian vocab! I’d also like to say a big thanks to all the Buildbase Ducati crew for allowing me to race with them back in the British series and the win at Cadwell is a memorable one!

I’ve been back home in Australia since the week after Brands and it’s flown by. I’ve been doing a lot of training plus I took some time out over Xmas and New Year to chill out a little bit and spend time with my friends and family. Luckily it’s summer over here so I’ve been making the most of the sun, water ski-ing, cycling and motocrossing. It’s been good to spend some time at home and in the sun as we didn’t see much of it last year!

Whilst I’ve been back home I was given the opportunity to ride an old classic bike, which was a good laugh even though the weather was mega hot and I was all fully kitted out in my leathers. Felt a bit strange riding it and definitely different to my Ducati, good fun though but I was worried about dropping it, thankfully all went to plan, have a look in the gallery at the pics.

Well I leave Aus next week and head back to the UK, I’ve been told to bring plenty of jumpers and coats as hearing it’s not quite the 40oC that I’ve been used to the last few months. I have my first test with the team at the end of January in Spain and hope that I can get some strong results this year for my team manager Serafino and his team, fingers crossed.

I will keep you posted on how my test goes and no doubt I’ll be at some of the BSB races again this year as a spectator.

Speak soon
Brendan #155

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