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    Quote Originally Posted by richban View Post
    350. Stroked and bored.
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    Quote Originally Posted by richban View Post
    350. Stroked and bored.
    No surprises there.

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    welllll????????????
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    what a ride so far!!!!

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    OK .... that was Te Puke, Well run by the organisers and the track itself is a realy great track, very tight, lots of elevation changes and hair pin corners. The weather was fine Saturday wet Sunday, and rained all day long but great racing and times in the wet were much the same as the dry. Saturday nights socialising was fun and started with Port a Corner then went on late into the night.

    And Tokoroa was no fluke as Av managed

    Placings were:-

    Race 1 Av Gav-V Rick and Kel 4th, riding the Beast .....

    Race 2 Av Gav-V Rick and Kel

    Race 3 Av Gav-V Kel and Rick

    I think this leaves Kel, Rick and Av tied for points and Gav-V very close behined, this could be a nail biter to the end.

    So three 2-Strokes and Gav-V's FXR at the pointy end all day, roll on Taupo, only two weeks .......

    There were quite a few bikes, lots of FXR's and quite a few other 2-Strokes running TF engines so a very interesting mixed bag.

    Hopefully someone will have a more complete list of places as there were many very good rides and people were going astoundingly fast in the wet conditions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TZ350 View Post
    OK .... that was Te Puke, Well run by the organisers and the track itself is a realy great track, very tight, lots of elevation changes and hair pin corners. The weather was fine Saturday wet Sunday, and rained all day long but great racing and times in the wet were much the same as the dry. Saturday nights socialising was fun and started with Port a Corner then went on late into the night.

    And Tokoroa was no fluke as Av managed

    Placings were:-

    Race 1 Av Gav-V Rick and Kel 4th riding the Beast .....

    Race 2 Av Gav-V Rick and Kel

    Race 3 Av Gav-V Kel and Rick

    So three 2-Strokes and Gav-V's FXR at the pointy end all day, roll on Taupo, only two weeks .......

    There were quite a few bikes, lots of FXR's and quite a few 2-Strokes running TF engines so a very interesting mixed bag.

    Hopefully someone will have a more complete list of places as there were many very good rides and people were going astoundingly fast in the wet conditions.

    That's a great result. Was it a little closer than last time? She romped away at Tokaroa. Yeah bring on the GP should be a blast.

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    Quote Originally Posted by richban View Post
    Was it a little closer than last time? She romped away at Tokaroa. Yeah bring on the GP should be a blast.
    The Te Puke starts were up hill so a wee bit harder with a stroker and she got swamped on the start in the second race and had to work for it, but pretty much a repeat of Tokoroa as she romped away leaving at least half a lap between her and second place in every race.

    Not surprising as she was sledging the front entering the corners, getting her knee down and power sliding the bike with both wheels drifting exiting the faster corners. She rode like an angry young woman keen to get home and into some dry warm clothes.

    Then second, third and fourth circulated as a tight group with a bit of a gap back to the main body of riders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TZ350 View Post
    The Te Puke starts were up hill so a wee bit harder with a stroker and she got swamped on the start in the second race and had to work for it, but pretty much a repeat of Tokoroa as she romped away leaving at least half a lap between her and second place in every race.

    Not surprising as she was sledging the front entering the corners, getting her knee down and power sliding the bike with both wheels drifting exiting the faster corners. She rode like an angry young woman keen to get home and into some dry warm clothes.

    Then second, third and fourth circulated as a tight group with a bit of a gap back to the main body of riders.
    It was nothing like Tokoroa. There was no oil slick to avoid. There was a slight petrol spill on Saturday, but no oil.
    Umm, after fourth, someone came fifth. Then someone sixth and all the way through to last place. Kamil was usually in last place, unless he pulled off the track. He ate a dodgy pie this morning, honest.

    Rick had problems with some traffic a couple of times, but Av rode like a chick possessed. She was awesome to watch and made it hard to flag - especially when trying to watch other battles and the area I was flagging, but everyone behaved and there wasn't much carnage.

    A huge thanks to Mr Bennett for an awesome series so far, shame it's coming to an end, but looking forward to Kaitoke

    Little Josh has gelled so well with his FXR, he's riding awesomely. He won't be with us in C grade down at Kaitoke. Rick is not allowed to get Will a 150, maybe put him on Josh's old bike or something (actually then he can go in B grade and leave me in peace lol).

    Thanks to NigelA for coming across and reminding us what he looks like

    Basically a fun event (again), and shame about the weather.

    Mark - how is the thumb? Broken? Hope you'll be sort of right for Kaitoke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by richban View Post
    That's a great result. Was it a little closer than last time? She romped away at Tokaroa. Yeah bring on the GP should be a blast.
    the last race was shortened to 15 laps not 30 and Av had trouble catching 2nd 3rd and 4th for there lapping (but wasent far behind)
    after the race she was asked weather she was tryingh to lap everyone again to kep the sponcers happy . Her answer was "no it's cold and wet and i if I finishes faster I can go home sooner"
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    Awesome weekend again. Thanks to everybody involved, shame about the weather but there was still a whole heap of close hard racing.

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    Buckets4me's Photos.

    Front runners, I think in race two, when Av had to work her way to the front after being swamped at the start.

    The racing was close and there were groups all through the field battling it out like this.

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    21 Av, 52 Rick, 33 Gav-V and 14 Kel on the Beast. 2-stroke 2-stroke 4-stroke 2-stroke

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    Av riding the Motard up the longest straight bit on the track, not much room for the strokers to do their stuff in the F4 races, Taupo whith its longer straights should be very interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TZ350 View Post
    Buckets4me's Photos.

    Front runners, I think in race two, when Av had to work her way to the front after being swamped at the start.

    The racing was close and there were groups all through the field battling it out like this.

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    21 Av, 52 Rick, 33 Gav-V and 14 Kel on the Beast. 2-stroke 2-stroke 4-stroke 2-stroke

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    Av riding the Motard up the longest straight bit on the track, not much room for the strokers to do their stuff in the F4 races, Taupo with its longer straights should be very interesting.

    in that second photo , is that track going up and down as in Whoops , and jumpy stuff??

    suddenly excited

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    Very interesting track ,I think it's my top track would have loved more dry laps,in the wet it was grippy but hard to pass and not a lot of run off ,I thnk Av had over a second on us but Gav Kel and me were very even .
    Great work Steve and Nig for the meeting to go so well cheers fellas
    The one thing we might have to think about is people running slicks in the wet and people on wets in the same race as the lap times are like b grade and a grade in the same race .
    I under stand that it cost money and time for wheels and tyres it was years before I got my wets sorted ,not sure what we could do ,it was probably the track that highlighted it because it was hard to pass .
    Saturday night was great fun with port and cigars ,you guys rock !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by TZ350 View Post
    The Te Puke starts were up hill so a wee bit harder with a stroker . . . .
    pah! try racing at Kaitoke with a serious up hill & you're launching a peaky 50 & every other buggers on a 150. Now I have a 100 its like cheating (when it goes).

    Congrats to Av. Yes Taupo will be interesting.
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    Just saw the results for Auckland on the weekend. 4 in F4 3 in F5 and 7 in b grade. Looks like most of Auckland went to Te Puke this weekend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick 52 View Post
    The one thing we might have to think about is people running slicks in the wet and people on wets in the same race as the lap times are like b grade and a grade in the same race .
    I under stand that it cost money and time for wheels and tyres it was years before I got my wets sorted ,not sure what we could do ,it was probably the track that highlighted it because it was hard to pass .
    I have never heard Rick complain about anything! this could be serious....

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