2006 Australian Superbike Championship (YMF Loan) - Round Four - Queensland Raceway

Anthony West Day 3 Report

No points for Kiefer BOS Racing at the last race of the 2006 season in Valencia. No luck for Anthony West and Dirk Heidolf. Dirk finished his race in the tenth lap, because his engine has no more power. Anthony West had a good start and wants to fight for a better result. He passed Aleix Espargaro but he was too late on the brake and took the way int the gravel. He did'nt crashed, but he came back into the race on the last position. Now he takes place by place with laptimes sometimes as fast as the top three riders... after that, he finished the race on 19. place.

Anthony West (#14) finished 19th position
"The start was'nt too bad. I start with harder tyres and after about five laps started to feel good and I felt a bit faster than the other in front of me so I started to trying push and I passed Espargaro and I was looking to catch up Poggiali but Im coming in a tight corner too fast it is a little bit bumpy there and I hit the ripple strip and nearly crashed. I picked it up and run across the gravel to race till the end."

Dirk Heidolf (#28) did not finished
"The bike had no power, that was the problem. I ride only with a maximum of 12.500 revs. The whole weekend was bad, I crashed two times and I'm dissapointed, because I want to improve my position in the championship. I did'nt want to leave Valencia like this, this is a big shame."

Stefan Kiefer (Teammanager):
"This weekend we had a complete 2007 Kit in Dirk's bike, but sadly it does'nt worked. Yesterday when we changed back to the 2006 engineversion we had ofcourse no data for the enginesetup. But we tried it... sure, it's disappointing for Dirk, but it could worked also. With one crucially mistake, Anthony did a great job today. After he was in the gravel he did a very fast race with laptimes, sometimes better than the top riders who were fighting for the victory."

Result:
Anthony West: Place 19
Dirk Heidolf: Place did not finished
Winner: Alex de Angelis / RSM / Aprilia