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Toast
20th November 2007, 11:15
Short 'n sweet:

Was a mint day, no rain.

Awesome to see so many people out there competing, and quite a few spectators as well (in spite of the unreasonable, in my opinion, $10 charge for entry). The last AMCC meet I went to there were about 8 bikes in F2 or something like that. This time there were about 20, with the F1 field being even bigger.

The goal was 1:03's...

Practice F1: The big arse slick that I had to drop 2 teeth at the rear to fit in had made my rear ride height miles high, and it felt like the front was gonna tuck, and the rear was gonna spin out...bit dodgy! Dropped my nuts on the first high speed entry to Jennian and decided that I'd better come back in and change something. Best of 1:08.7.

Pracetice F2: Two turns less preload at the rear and it seemed to work a treat. Not only was the bike sitting very nicely, turning in well but still as stable as a bike with no damper on Pukie can be, and the rear was handling the bumps entering Jennian a lot better than before. Started to get more confident but then got stuck behind a bike coming out of the hairpin, through the left handers and had to jump on the brakes to avoid going up his arse. Best time of 1:06.5. Could've been better, but wouldn't have changed the race results by much anyway if it was, so not too fussed with that one.

Race 1, F1: My fave race of the day. Was stuck behind an '06 R6 for the first 6 laps. Coming up on him in the corners but losing about 20 bike lengths on the back straight and about 10 straight out of the hairpin. The CBR isn't THAT slow, but the new way too tall gearing from the big rear Pirelli exposed the not so ballsy engine a bit. Finally took him around the outside through Jennian as the confidence came up, and managed to hold him off. Spotted a black R1 just ahead of me as I was braking in to the hairpin for the final time, went hard through the left handers and took him on the outside over the hill with enough pace to hold the thou' off to the line. Good fun, and a best time of 1:04.7.

Race 1, F2: Had a mare and ran of the track twice. Did 1:04.9, but did some 1:10's on those laps where I ran off. Marshalls at Castrol must've thought I was a total muppet (I am). Realised I was hungry as and so used that as an excuse for my ineptitude :)

Race 2, F1: Had the blue '06 R6 pretty sussed by now and took him where I was strong, stuffed up his drive on to the back straight and held him off for the race. Got 1:04.5. Was getting a bit tired from all of the heat by now.

Race 2, F2: Chased Sam from Wild West on the '07 600RR for the whole race. Made some big ground on lap 2, which was a 1:04.7 (gotta love the onboard lap timer), but then made tonnes of mistakes and lost touch. Excuse no.27: I work in an office and am unfit.

No idea what the placings in any races were, does anyone know where the race results get posted? It used to be something like mark-time.tk or something, but it doesn't seem to work anymore and just redirects you to some site with tonnes of pop-ups.

So, ended up not meeting my goal of lapping in the 1:03's. Just dropping a tooth on the front sprocket to make 6th useable, and get better drive out of Castrol and the hairpin, might have gotten me there, but there were definitely areas of my riding that I know could have gotten me down that extra 0.5 of a second or more anyway. Good thing that there's always next time :D

Thanks to the AMCC for a great meet, Dad for all of the help with everything, as always, Lindsay from 'Treads for use of the pit tent and good company, Udo of Schuberth helmets for help in the pits, and whoever decided that pushing pedals to make a bike go fast was a flawed idea in the first place. This racing shit is so much fun!!

Nicksta
20th November 2007, 14:02
awesome stuff Phil.... 1:04's are pretty damn good in my books :)
great write up... racing shit IS fun!!
see you next time!

jahrasti
20th November 2007, 16:59
Good to see phil. Hey less pies and more bicycle to work for you, young man!:devil2:

Teambwr47
20th November 2007, 17:14
I take it yours was the yellow CBR600RR03?

I think you came down and spoke to the guys i was helping out for the day.....John (07RR) and Russ (R1).

Looked like you were going well but you sure looked knackered when you spoke to us......;)

White trash
20th November 2007, 17:52
Phil, you finished 16th or 17th in the third Formula Auckland race bro. Best time of a 1.05 from memory.

6 races in a day in that heat sure is alot of work bro.

Toast
20th November 2007, 19:09
Good to see phil. Hey less pies and more bicycle to work for you, young man!:devil2:

If only the Harbour Bridge wasn't in the way...no pushies along there unfortunately. I've got a plan though.

jrandom
20th November 2007, 19:10
I've got a plan though.

A cunning plan?

I have the same issue with the harbour bridge getting in the way of pushbiking to work. Sucks to be us.

And nice work at Round 1!

Toast
20th November 2007, 19:14
Third Formula Auckland race, Jimmy? I must've been knackered, I thought I'd only done two of those.

Yeah BWR, that was me. Sorry, never even introduced myself, will do so next time. Will be good to see you out there on the track when the time comes.

vtec
20th November 2007, 19:15
1.04's on your bike is really good Phil, it's just not that fast.

westie
20th November 2007, 20:20
Wow great work bro. My ears are open for some good advice from you.

roogazza
21st November 2007, 08:08
Anybody got the results, can't see any on Mylaps ??? or was it a stopwatch jobbie ? Gaz.

Toast
21st November 2007, 09:19
They won't be on mylaps...that's only for events using the AMB transponders, as far as I'm aware.

I'm pretty sure they used to post the AMCC results on this site:

http://mark-time.tk

But everytime I try to access it, it just goes through to some stupid blog thing with tonnes of pop-ups.

twinshock750
21st November 2007, 11:10
One word....Google!!

http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~marktime/results/071118-AMC.HTML

NinjaBoy
21st November 2007, 21:05
Sounds like you had a good day and make a good attempt at your goal for the day. For an older bike you've shown how important the rider is in the equation. Great stuff !

Big Chim
22nd November 2007, 20:55
Good stuff Phil, Catch ya at the next one one

CHOPPA
22nd November 2007, 21:39
Race 1, F2: Had a mare and ran of the track twice. Did 1:04.9, but did some 1:10's on those laps where I ran off. Marshalls at Castrol must've thought I was a total muppet (I am). Realised I was hungry as and so used that as an excuse for my ineptitude

Is castrol the corner coming onto the back straight? anyway you may have seen me having a bit of a lay down there in the first F2 race oops... I dont suppose you dragged that dirt to the inside? hahaha na no excuses but it was good to get my first crash out of the way and get off light!

Toast
23rd November 2007, 08:46
Is castrol the corner coming onto the back straight? anyway you may have seen me having a bit of a lay down there in the first F2 race oops... I dont suppose you dragged that dirt to the inside? hahaha na no excuses but it was good to get my first crash out of the way and get off light!

Yep, that's Castrol.

I probably did bring a small amount of crap on to the track, but your impressive scrape marks didn't start at my re-entry point, so I think you've just become another one of the standard Castrol statistics (according to a 55 yr old racer I heard there are a LOT of crashes there).

You were f'k'n flyin' after that though!