Paeroa safety?

[JayRacer37]

clearly you haven't seen anyone crash at the kink on the main straight then, nor indeed the kink on the back straight? I might send them a tennis court net soon , they can stretch it between those two forklifts and actually make use of them...

Yeah, it does have some loverly fast corners...Aside from where they could have had more bails off the back straight and had them secured a bit so you didn't go under them so easily (and less forklifts...) at least there was a patch of runoff. The kink on the front straight yes, it could be hairy if you tried to get four bikes or two sidecars through at full noise - but even on the quick bikes you only need one lane on the exit to get through flat, so there is a bit of room. But no, I wouldn't want to crash there - like the esses at Wanganui.

[JayRacer37]

actually it gets worse, the doll is Sean Walsh's ex

We have been loaned it for next weekend too

[Quasievil]

Maybe you thinking of Tony Rees?

Oh shit, thank you for the correction, my bad, I think my day will be that much better now that I can correctly spell his name.

P.S
Veiw is spelt View

[sidecar bob]

Tony Reese went out with the sighting in lap, I assume for this reason

He lead the new rider sighting laps, at warp factor 12 I might add.
A couple of dudes binned in that.
Paul Dobbs was riders rep & did a track inspection.

[Biggles08]

One thing I was annoyed at was the grid positions kept changing....as per the written 'briefing' we were to look on the wall at the Pit office on the Saturday while scutineering was happening to find out our grid positions...if we had issue with where we were gridded we were to sort it out on the Saturday as "No discussion will be entered into on Sunday."

I was stoked to have been put in 7th on the grid as my starts are a tad shit at the moment (see my vid for a good eg). For some reason, by Sunday I was back to 10th on the grid even though I checked on the Sat at the end of the day. Anyway, I didn't say anything just thought it was weird...but it got worse...by race 2 I was back in 11th on the grid! I checked with Paul D (the riders rep) re this and he was surprised to not even be shown on the grid! We checked it out and they had decided to start the second race based on the finishing order of the first race (Paul had a DNF in the first)...I would have thought this may have been a good thing to explain at the 'not so riders briefing' in the morning....just a wee gripe :-)

[sidecar bob]

Tracey on the pink sidecar got bumped from the second row to the third row because someone complained.
She then went out & promptly spanked the arse of the complainee.
As was said somewhere, maybe they do it so theres as heap of passing.

[Kickaha]

Whats up with that?, Wangas and Nationals you qualify and that's your grid for the day

[Tony.OK]

Whats up with that?, Wangas and Nationals you qualify and that's your grid for the day

For some reason they make the grid from the previous years performance.......bit dumb considering theres 2 timed practice sessions.

Last year was my 1st ever time at Paeroa, only had 1 practise and was 7th fastest in F1, but was on 2nd to last grid. Go figure?
Made it hard to get through the pack but was still fun.

[Peter Smith]

Sighting laps my arse. There were bikes passing me inside and outside, doing mono's down the main straight. It was bloody dangerous and I was not surprised there were crashes, there were too many bikes.
The yellow flags were out but it seemed more like a practice session than sighting laps.

[woodyracer]

The only thing i find dangerous at paeroa is the speeds on the main straight....260km/h.......pretty bloody fast if a bike fipps out and goes through one of those flimsy little wire fences and takes out a dozen people....

[Toot Toot]

The only thing i find dangerous at paeroa is the speeds on the main straight....260km/h.......pretty bloody fast if a bike fipps out and goes through one of those flimsy little wire fences and takes out a dozen people....

And that my friend is exactly what we all fear every year we go there. Do you think there is a Medical Clinic outside staffed with Emergency Dept Intensivists just for the riders????? What other race track in New Zealand has that?

[Maha]

The first year I went, I remember thinking '' ya fucked if any one of these bikes cocks it up'' but I couldn't get enough of the close up action, strange piece of equipment the ole' brain.

[suzuki21]

For some reason they make the grid from the previous years performance.......bit dumb considering theres 2 timed practice sessions.

Last year was my 1st ever time at Paeroa, only had 1 practise and was 7th fastest in F1, but was on 2nd to last grid. Go figure?
Made it hard to get through the pack but was still fun.

Friend of mine got 6th last year in the class he runs in and this year he was dead last on the grid.

[Shaun]

The only thing i find dangerous at paeroa is the speeds on the main straight....260km/h.......pretty bloody fast if a bike fipps out and goes through one of those flimsy little wire fences and takes out a dozen people....

That is my exact problem with the place. I used to race roads all the time, I know the risks of course, but to have spectators hurt/killed in an event like this in our PC SOFT COCK country, would give Motorcycling such a bad name, that it would help Gauantee NO BIG sponsors ( Outside the industry) wanting to be involved in the future

[Quasievil]

The only thing i find dangerous at paeroa is the speeds on the main straight....260km/h.......pretty bloody fast if a bike fipps out and goes through one of those flimsy little wire fences and takes out a dozen people....

When I raced it last year on the straight there was a few guys leaning right out trying to pass me a beer, a beer in the head at 180 kmph (motard) would kinda hurt me, as well as them.
I didnt like it to much