Kyle
30th January 2007, 20:32
Well in round two i pretty much burgled clubmans on my 94 cbr600, so i went and got myself an 01 cbr600 and entered F2 and F1 for the first time. (number 157)
Ok so round three. Taupo track, old half. Never done just the old half, this could be interesting.
So we get there and the track is wet due to rain over night, thats cool, ive got my wets on already. Come briefing time the track is starting to look very dry, and they decided to run one 10min practice instead of two 5min, so the mad rush was on to swap over to dry tyres before the first practice session started, F1 was up first.
Made it with whole minutes to spare and spent that time weaving up and down pit lane, trying to scuff in a shiny new pair of metzler racetechs. Well the practice session was good, i managed to fully scuff in the tyres and not crash. I think a gsxr went down in that session, turn four. F2 practice went better as the few puddles had dryed up and i was getting used to the track.
So first race, line up on the grid, now im getting nervous. got a below average start and ended up near the back going into turn one, boy that pack looks dense from back there. race went well (i didnt crash) and i managed to place 9th out of 14 i think.
And that pretty much sums it up for the rest of the seven races, 9th 10th 10th and 11th in F1. something like 14th of 20 in F2 i think, still waiting for the results. There was lots of crashes over the day, i think at least one in every race, one or more on every corner (there is only four corners) And one guy managed to crash twice in one race, and it wasnt a motard. Thats not bad considering 6 laps dont last long at 43 seconds each. 43.06 was my best lap.
Acheived my primary goal, race in f2 and not crash, and my secondary goal, to beat my boss on his 02 cbr600. Got him 3 out of 8 times, that`ll do me.
heres some pics from the day. 1: my shiny new machine, 2: Goblin and the rest of the F3 swarm, 3: opps, 4: another opps, 5: me chasing my boss and a trx850. 6: me in front of my boss :yes:
Ok so round three. Taupo track, old half. Never done just the old half, this could be interesting.
So we get there and the track is wet due to rain over night, thats cool, ive got my wets on already. Come briefing time the track is starting to look very dry, and they decided to run one 10min practice instead of two 5min, so the mad rush was on to swap over to dry tyres before the first practice session started, F1 was up first.
Made it with whole minutes to spare and spent that time weaving up and down pit lane, trying to scuff in a shiny new pair of metzler racetechs. Well the practice session was good, i managed to fully scuff in the tyres and not crash. I think a gsxr went down in that session, turn four. F2 practice went better as the few puddles had dryed up and i was getting used to the track.
So first race, line up on the grid, now im getting nervous. got a below average start and ended up near the back going into turn one, boy that pack looks dense from back there. race went well (i didnt crash) and i managed to place 9th out of 14 i think.
And that pretty much sums it up for the rest of the seven races, 9th 10th 10th and 11th in F1. something like 14th of 20 in F2 i think, still waiting for the results. There was lots of crashes over the day, i think at least one in every race, one or more on every corner (there is only four corners) And one guy managed to crash twice in one race, and it wasnt a motard. Thats not bad considering 6 laps dont last long at 43 seconds each. 43.06 was my best lap.
Acheived my primary goal, race in f2 and not crash, and my secondary goal, to beat my boss on his 02 cbr600. Got him 3 out of 8 times, that`ll do me.
heres some pics from the day. 1: my shiny new machine, 2: Goblin and the rest of the F3 swarm, 3: opps, 4: another opps, 5: me chasing my boss and a trx850. 6: me in front of my boss :yes: