From the 16th to 18th of May, Yamaha Deutschland were at the East German circuit of Oschersleben. Also present at the race was Micheal Schumacher, an up and coming motorcycle racer and former car specialist.
Other aspects of the meeting remain hazy, since for the last 3 and a half weeks I’ve been on a bit of a racing binge. What I do know is free practice and qualifying were often interupted by rain, leading to us entering the first race having not been able to test some of the new tyres Dunlop had developed. This meant we chose a tried and tested compound that we were pretty sure would last the race. This theory served us well as Jorg finished 2nd from his 3rd place on the grid. However the rear tyre was clearly wrecked and a plan was hatched to run a slightly different pressure in the 2nd race to help the tyre last.
The second race was much like the first, with Bauer again taking the win, as he has done all year, and Jorg taking 2nd, as he has done all year. This finishing order was by then wearing a little thin, and by shedding some weight and upping engine power via some technical development in the workshop, we hoped to get ahead of Bauer.
After unloading the truck at MGM’s north German workshop, I was on my way to the Isle Of Man where I was to work with Phase One in their first TT attempt.
