08.20
Round 6
Atlantic Motorsport Park – Shubenacadie, NS
August 8-9, 2009
Friday morning, after four days of relaxation at the beach and eating lobsters, Raphael was in great shape and ready to race for the 6th round of the Parts Canada Superbike Championship …
Raphael won the CBR 125R Challenge race at Atlantic Motorsport Park last year, but this year, after his first practice session, he said …
« It is really not the same, it’s felt like I was not on the same track! »
Saturday morning, after a long night of preparing the bike, I was ready to go back on the track. In the practice session, we tried to put a taller gear, but it was a little too tall, so we changed it just before the qualification…
Saturday afternoon, we were ready, but not exactly sure about the setting … finally after 25 minutes at Atlantic Motorsport Park, we were third ( 1:13.214) with 0.071 second from the pole position !
Sunday morning, after a final touch on the rear suspension, the bike was completely ready! This time we had the perfect set up
Raphael won the race by 0.197 second and almost broke the lap record of Cody Matechuk (1:12.551) with a time of 1:12.592 !
Raphael is now the points leader with 42 points in front of Rob Buzby, so to win the championship he needs to be in the top 16 for the Round 7 of Parts Canada Superbike championship at Shannonville Motorsport Park.
Here is his plan for the next and the final Round of the 2009 championship …
“All I want to do is just go out there and play hard. If I do that, good things will happen. It’s as simple as that.”
We would like to thank our sponsors … Picotte motorsport, Elka suspension, Accelerated Technologie, Sunoco Race fuel, Hindle exhaust, Performance friction brakes, Hotbodies, Dezo air brush, Pirelli and Suzuki
Team Archambault Racing
