Thanking AMCC RND 3

[Dreama]

Just want to offer my thanks and appreciations to all the AMCC guys and gals that were involved with the meeting yesterday.
Officials, marshalls, time keepers, track workers etc ... thanks to you all. I was really impressed with the whole event. From the lovely young lady on the dummy grid who kept smiling right through a long hot day to the poor sods who had to sweep up and remove copious amounts of oil, dead bikes and debri ... cheers to you.
Awesome day despite some unfortunate incidents.

[Matt Bleck]

Hell yeah, thanks guys it was choice bro! :yes:

[CHOPPA]

Yeah it was a great day, obviously they had it sorted from R1 and there oil clean up skills were great cheers guys

[Biggles08]

Yup....two well run meetings in a row! Better be careful you will make a habit of it!

Really good to see some changes made for the better....the #1 being transponders being used. It makes it an expensive day out but you certainly feel like you get your moneys worth and helps make the show run smoothly. :yes:

One complaint though...someone who now owes me a beer put the white flag out a lap early in the first F1 race...I made an overtaking move on Karl M (an awesome one I might add:innocent:) on what I thought was the last lap and we were side by side dragging to the finish line and were too busy (trying to pull up before the sand) to look for the flag which apparently was another white flag!? I went around the rest of that lap thinking the race was over and was confused as I raised my hand to pull into the pits when everyone carried on! It was too dangerous to pull back out again thought so I got a DNF.....hmmmmmm....anyway, it was a fun race regardless.

[racer40]

wot lots of oil, Choppa & no sidecars in sight..........

[Kickaha]

wot lots of oil, Choppa & no sidecars in sight..........

I'm sure he can find one to blame anyway :bleh:

[Mental Trousers]

Compared to the first round this round was 100 times better. Glad to see the AMCC got over the initial teething problems with racing at Hampton Downs, even though it's STILL a building site.

Thanks to all involved. It was a great day.

[CHOPPA]

I'm sure he can find one to blame anyway :bleh:

lol yeah it sorta just rolls nicely off the tounge.... it was the next best thing a pos classic

[Cr1MiNaL]

For one of my first few meetings I am starting to get a little spoiled! Good work AMCC. Thanks to everyone involved, & MNZ's Trevor - your not so bad after all! Good oil clean up job, didn't once have an issue even though I did once brake on it as I was all over the show trying to figure out braking markers.

Like Biggles said, please try and sort the flags out, R1 had me slow down and loose a spot because I got shown the white flag twice. But that aside, good show. Loved it and can't wait for R4 - it seems like ages away.

Firestarter Racing.

[Sidewinder]

For one of my first few meetings I am starting to get a little spoiled! Good work AMCC. Thanks to everyone involved, & MNZ's Trevor - your not so bad after all! Good oil clean up job, didn't once have an issue even though I did once brake on it as I was all over the show trying to figure out braking markers.

Like Biggles said, please try and sort the flags out, R1 had me slow down and loose a spot because I got shown the white flag twice. But that aside, good show. Loved it and can't wait for R4 - it seems like ages away.

Firestarter Racing.

the race only ends under the checkerd or red flag

[Shaun]

the race only ends under the checkerd or red flag


well said sidewinder, Race to the checkerd flag guys

[Toast]

Awesome day, well run, thanks guys!

[Sidewinder]

well said sidewinder, Race to the checkerd flag guys

yup it happend at the nats this year a few times in the south island and out came the rule book and it doesnt matter how many times the white flag goes out

[Sidewinder]

im rather suprised that all the races where done with a few of the big hold up after a few of the races. good work guys

[Kiwi Graham]

Had an awesome day and thanks for an excellent event, well organised, prompt action on clean ups with minimal delays and we still got all three races in.

I wish Brendan a speedy full recovery after is massive off.

The best rule to follow is always race until the chequred flag.
The piss poor standard of bike numbering must make it damb near impossible to judge who's coming at ya if your on the start finish line. Its been debated over and over again re the concern of visability of numbers.

[angelindisguise]

the start/finish guys did do a bit of a blunder with the white flag... they were having problems with the lap counter and wernt too sure what lap it was on. so sorry bout the dnf and to the other rider that lost a position.

apart from that, it was fantastic racing :D

[prettybillie]

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I wish Brendan a speedy full recovery after is massive off.

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For all of you who are enquiring - Brendon Holland, who crashed on Sunday, is recovering well. He has a fractured skull, eye socket, cheek bone, shoulder and hand. He is currently still in the neurological unit at Waikato hospital. The AMCC has been in daily contact and he knows all of our thoughts are with him.

[Dreama]

Oh man, that's terrible.
Hope he doesn't have his own business which will suffer too much, let alone family.
Here's to a speedy recovery brutha.

[Biggles08]

For all of you who are enquiring - Brendon Holland, who crashed on Sunday, is recovering well. He has a fractured skull, eye socket, cheek bone, shoulder and hand. He is currently still in the neurological unit at Waikato hospital. The AMCC has been in daily contact and he knows all of our thoughts are with him.
Thanks PB.

[Biggles08]

Had an awesome day and thanks for an excellent event, well organised, prompt action on clean ups with minimal delays and we still got all three races in.

I wish Brendan a speedy full recovery after is massive off.

The best rule to follow is always race until the chequred flag.
The piss poor standard of bike numbering must make it damb near impossible to judge who's coming at ya if your on the start finish line. Its been debated over and over again re the concern of visability of numbers.
All very well IF you can see the chequerd flag..in my case I was on the outside and concentrating on beating Karl Morgan to the line followed by trying my hardest not to do a Craig Sherriffs into turn 1...didn't see any flag just thought it was the last due to seeing the white the lap before. Anyway, as I said all will be forgiven once I have a beer in my hand:drinknsin

[Kiwi Graham]

All very well IF you can see the chequerd flag..in my case I was on the outside and concentrating on beating Karl Morgan to the line followed by trying my hardest not to do a Craig Sherriffs into turn 1...didn't see any flag just thought it was the last due to seeing the white the lap before. Anyway, as I said all will be forgiven once I have a beer in my hand:drinknsin

All good mate.
Think its going to be an inherent problem with HD if your diving for the line turn one is always going to be a problem to get round without a drama its simply too close even now.
I've got 296 as my top speed according to my dash gizmo, your coving a lot of ground a second at that speed and sitting up and hitting the picks is challenging to say the least to make the first turn without dramas.

I know they have moved it back, it could go back further in my opinion, how about as far back as the pit entry?! make some impressive pics of bikes diving for the line cranked over at full chat!

ps your were flying mate well done. I'm going to have to invest in some track time and figure a quicker way round that upper body strength sapping track!

[scracha]

GWS Brendan.



The piss poor standard of bike numbering must make it damb near impossible to judge who's coming at ya if your on the start finish line. Its been debated over and over again re the concern of visability of numbers.

Perhaps if MNZ didn't change our numbers randomly every year we'd invest in some large decent signwritten ones. Sent them an email about this and got the usual silent response.

Also I counted 3 other bikes using my MNZ allocated number last year....so what's the point?

Doesn't help that the NZPCRA use their own numbers for some unfathomable reason.

[CHOPPA]

Doesnt really matter what number you run just make it big. I run whatever number I want haha it was important when there were people called lap scorers instead of transponders