update and a broken promise

Hello everybody,

after more than 4 weeks I am online again! Not back in racing, but on my way to. A heavy injury (back problems after a 6 hours (real life) race) was reason for my absence for the last EUSL III races. Aaaah, I was very disappointed and sad, but there was no chance. I wasn’t able to sit long, neither to stand or to lay. And that few days before our holiday trip to Texel.

Wow, I can tell you, that it was a “not easy” drive from our hometown to Texel. In an car with an camping van. Well, after arriving, all went well. I had to rest a few days in the sun and then my back was okay again. We had a absolutely great time. Peace, sun, time, family, playing and laying in the sand, …… and I never slept so much like in those 3 weeks.

First day at home everything was like before. One call and I was on the run again. Business trip to Berlin. From Sunday to Friday. No chance for racing and no for training. And after one week in hotel, we built up the room from my son. He is not a kid anymore. He is now a teenager. 

And for my love and wife I built up a new cheap racing setup in my homeoffice. There I only have a little monitor and not such a TV, and the place, height, distance to monitor and pedals is also less comfortable, but ….. we have now a living room again.

My first rounds in forza were terrible. I have to learn new. Looking, pushing,…… due to this long period of no racing and to that unknown setup. But I will make it. I lost my speed, but it is good for our family. One thing is very bad for me. I will have to break my promise to buy and use a microphone. In future I will have to drive with headphones, because my son and my wife will sleep only few metres away. Our rooms are all together in the 1 floor. So my talking and speaking with you would be too loud.

Today I won’t race my first EUSL IV race with you. Yesterday I drove some rounds and ….. Well, my time is so very behind all of the rest and I felt not good during driving. I don’t want to make mistakes during a league race and don’t want to cause problems for other drivers. So I will train a little bit alone and not online. Only for some minutes, because tomorrow early in the morning I will leave to Berlin again. Again for a whole week. And next weekend I will work in Hamburg. So …… again no race for me.

I hope, that life will calm down a little bit in October and I will try to change some things in my setup. I will come back.

I miss you!

Bye and enjoy your races!!!!!

JDANKERT