Dusty Track 5, the fifth edition of this unique dirt track event, took place last Saturday, September 12th, in the town of Maia near Porto. This time they surprised us with the location, a racetrack with a 1 km circuit length; you can imagine the speed you could reach on the straight. Due to the number of bikes passing through all day, the corners started to turn into pure sand traps rather than a track. But this didn’t make it any less fun, even if visibility was practically zero when you had a bike in front of you. The race being blessed by the local parish priest gave us quite a bit of peace of mind, as safety wasn't exactly the event’s strong suit. Despite the heat and dust in even the softest spots, we had a frankly fun day with our friends from the neighboring country. There were several heats with different categories: scramblers, pitbikes, choppers, urban, modified, etc... One guy even decided to find a heat for his MV Agusta and take it onto the track, something better left unseen by the priest, given the profound sacrilege. We suffered a small mishap with our bikes when a kamikaze kid on a quad crashed into one of them, creating quite a domino effect with several others nearby. Thanks to the priest’s blessing, nothing happened to the kid, but the same could not be said for the bikes. We left happy with our results in our category heats (though we're not sure if they were the right ones): first place in the first and second place in the second (just two meters away from clinching the win... hehe). Due to lack of time, we couldn't contest the following ones, but the results would have been very close with the "hell rider" who was ahead of us. We would like to thank Dusty Track for their great event and la urbana bike, Honor motorcycles , Adrián Otero (and his wife), and 5special for their company. Also thanks to Flip Ribero for the penultimate photo and to Nuno Feliz for the last one.
