The journey from small guy to teenager...

[Dodgy69]

Is James happy with todays arrangements. ?

[weeksy]

https://my.raceresult.com/340451/results

[weeksy]

Is James happy with todays arrangements. ?

Not quizzing him too much until Tonight but he seems happy

[Cousin Jack]

He's a lucky lad, and IMO you are doing a fantastic job as a Dad.

You obviously spend a lot of time, energy and money is supporting him, yet you are also able to step away and encourage him to make his own decisions.

Well done!

[millemille]

He's a lucky lad, and IMO you are doing a fantastic job as a Dad.

You obviously spend a lot of time, energy and money is supporting him, yet you are also able to step away and encourage him to make his own decisions.

Well done!

I'll second that, from the sounds of things you're playing it spot on...

[weeksy]

He's in p10 after seeding with a couple of fast lads getting a rerun due to crashes. But he's happy with his run. The wind picked up about half way through the Cat and made it trickier for the back half of group. But overall, we're finished happy.

At least I think it's still 'we'

[MingtheMerciless]

#Josverstappeninthepits

[Yorick]

So the weekend has taken a bit of a twist/turn and I've become redundant. One of the bigger paddock teams have requested the boy pits with them for the weekend, they'll give him full paddock support, spannering, setup, repairs etc. it's a team we've known for a while and had some discussions previously but this is the first time doing this. There were some discussions last night between us all
It does mean I have no job now other than chilling and drinking coffee.
I have made up a sign to hang around my neck "will spanner for beers"
It'll be an interesting insight for him into a more professional world and as to whether that's something he wants to go down as a scenario. As always at the moment, I'm trying to stay out of it and letting him decide if it's yes or no. But as he's getting older, it's not on me to make all these decisions.

Interesting times

I suppose being a parent has a few tough times when you have to let your kid go, so to speak.

Be proud and be happy for him. Now more time for beer and pizza for you

[weeksy]

Morning done and he's chilling now until race. Last run was 2s quicker than yesterday seeding run, so that is good. He's been trying and hitting some new lines. 

Race time 4.15 roughly 

[weeksy]

Excuse me for crying, but he only bloody finished 2nd

[Count Steer]

Excuse me for crying, but he only bloody finished 2nd

Must be the spannering.



Well done Weeksy Minor (and team).

[MingtheMerciless]

@Weeksy , please pass on my congrats to James and a Chapeau to yourself for the support you've given him.

[weeksy]

IMG_20250511_183212 by steveweeks59, on Flickr

[millemille]

IMG_20250511_183212 by steveweeks59, on Flickr

Bloody brilliant!

[Nordboy]

Excuse me for crying, but he only bloody finished 2nd

Outstanding result, well done James (and yourself and Mrs W for supporting him on his journey)

[Taff]

Excuse me for crying, but he only bloody finished 2nd

Holy moly, that's a brilliant result, well done team Weeks

[Skub]

Awesome stuff.

[Numnut]

Bit late, but awesome stuff - well done!

[weeksy]

Well as a start point the weekend has just cost me £3000 as i'm now never ever ever allowed to sell this Session frame LOL. On pain of death will this be sold. His ideal is that it ends up mounted on the wall of his house... whether his wife/whoever would allow that, only the future can say... but i can't really argue with him considering what him and it have been through and done together, especially with this weekend of course.

As for the other tricky decisions, well that's a whole kettle of insanity right there, but obviously as i've said previously with some things, there's very little i can put on here, at the end of the 2024 and into 2025 we had our hearts set on something which was honeslty a bit life-changing for him, but at the last minute it fell through and he was totally gutted about it all (as was I) but thats the nature of the sport and the industry at the moment there's ups and downs, good and bad, and this one came bad in the end. There was another option which we didn't feel was quite the right timing, but looking back in hindsight, may well have been the correct timing after all.... but we learn from this and we keep plodding on. It's complicated but in the very very best kind of way i guess.

We've got some major bike decisions that we're weighing up, but that's also potentially been put on hold. It's been suggested the Session is too small for him, but how can i possibly argue that point now after the way he's going... he loves the Session and unless something pretty dramatic happens in the coming months, it'll be staying as the race bike for this year.

He spent a lot of time this weekend on the Zerode, but only playing in the paddock, it's the latest generation G3 version with Smart Shift and lets just say, it felt superb and both of us are pretty taken with it, but it's a massive chunk of change to find (especially now i'm not part-funding it with the Session lol) and that's needing a fair bit of discussion before we take a leap... They're nice though, really nice.

This weekend we're at Dyfi for the day and testing an A200 and an S200 with a potential discussion on one of those as well.

But, we can't jump on any of these discussions currently of course lol. I have some opinions of my own on things but i don't know yet how his take on things are with it all. One thing i do know is, he has to make some of these decisions in his own time/way. He's a bit weird like that where if you pressure him for answers he'll just not give a lot, but if you let him sit on things then it's a bit easier... it's just a question of how long that can sometimes take that's an issue.

His forks and shock are out now and off to TFTuned for a full service and rebuild.

I'm pretty sure it was straight before the weekend, but clearly 11 runs of Fort William is about it's limit lol. It survived the race run, but how many of those were present before the race I'm not sure. I did the spoke tension just before his last run, but I must admit I wasn't much looking at the rim. If it stayed up, it was good enough.

Glad we're away from here for a few months now, I need a new wallet!

IMG_20250512_163220 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

IMG_20250512_163249 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

IMG_20250512_163300 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

IMG_20250512_163240 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

[Count Steer]

What was the recipe for success? Just 'everything came together when it mattered' or was there something major changed? Looking at the time for the race run he'd have been respectably placed in some of the top level stuff.

Awesome.