Manfeild long circuit question...

**Maido** · 10th December 2009, 16:51

Originally Posted by Sketchy_Racer

I hope your taste for women is better than your taste for a good corner! Surely you have you ridden at ruapuna? The sweeper coming onto the front straight has a way longer period of 'hard up it while on your side', even coming out of nana's has a huge amount of time of leant over with the throttle open.

It would be a much better corner without the bump, but everyone has to ride over it so it's all equal in the end.

^^ this
I can think of 2 at ruapuna, Nanas is one and the last corner as sketchy said, Nanas is a beauty cos it is tight when you get on it and it just opens out and you drive up that straight for ages!
Also the loop at teretonga, you are on the side of the tyre for 7-8 seconds doing approx 135km (it seems faster than this but it actually isn't) then you are full noise as it opens out into the straight into turn 2 where you pull about 210 on a 600. good slides to be had. these corners all have 2 things in common, they are in the south island, and they all have no bumps

**gixerracer** · 10th December 2009, 17:02

Originally Posted by Maido

^^ this
I can think of 2 at ruapuna, Nanas is one and the last corner as sketchy said, Nanas is a beauty cos it is tight when you get on it and it just opens out and you drive up that straight for ages!
Also the loop at teretonga, you are on the side of the tyre for 7-8 seconds doing approx 135km (it seems faster than this but it actually isn't) then you are full noise as it opens out into the straight into turn 2 where you pull about 210 on a 600. good slides to be had. these corners all have 2 things in common, they are in the south island, and they all have no bumps

yea but it is a windy shit hole

**Sketchy_Racer** · 10th December 2009, 17:10

Originally Posted by gixerracer

yea but it is a windy shit hole

It is known for a light breeze I have been told... Certainly not something that would cause you to run off the track....

**k14** · 10th December 2009, 17:16

Originally Posted by Maido

^^ this
I can think of 2 at ruapuna, Nanas is one and the last corner as sketchy said, Nanas is a beauty cos it is tight when you get on it and it just opens out and you drive up that straight for ages!
Also the loop at teretonga, you are on the side of the tyre for 7-8 seconds doing approx 135km (it seems faster than this but it actually isn't) then you are full noise as it opens out into the straight into turn 2 where you pull about 210 on a 600. good slides to be had. these corners all have 2 things in common, they are in the south island, and they all have no bumps

Even the decreasing radius at Levels is fairly long on full lean, you have to be on your toes for the quick right after too.

Originally Posted by Sketchy_Racer

It is known for a light breeze I have been told... Certainly not something that would cause you to run off the track....

And blowing engines

**Shaun** · 10th December 2009, 20:38

Originally Posted by gixerracer

yea but it is a windy shit hole

ONLY FOR loosers WHO GET BLOWN OF THE TRACK

**Shaun** · 10th December 2009, 20:40

Best most tech track is in timaru

hd is fun, but dam easy to learn, 10 laps will kill it.

**White trash** · 10th December 2009, 20:46

Originally Posted by k14

...And blowing goats

Fucken Southlanders, always messin with a brothers goats.......

**wharfy** · 11th December 2009, 05:03

Originally Posted by codgyoleracer

Hi Wharfy:
Like many decreasing apex turns, mid track entry trailing the brake out to a higher mid-corner turn point then cut back to a late inside apex. (a bit like the the Dunlop sweeper on the main track). (but the bump can screw that method up, - unless of course you have the set up from heaven & then bumps virtually dont exist)
Or you could do it the Shirriffs way on "Bucky the Superbike" & go piling up the inside line hard on the brakes, keep it in tight & then give it a fistfull whilst still keeping it in tight early coming out.
Both methods are effective , but one requires blind faith in front end grip & the other requires balls.........

Bugger, I don't have either of those .....

It's good to have an idea of what I "should" be doing tho'.
Cheers.