NI Round 4 and Two-hour, 13 & 14 November

[Henk]

I like the knives and swords idea, can we make that plan A?

[50bucketracer]

The way the grids are done for the F4 A grade @ the AMCC club championship rounds are based on the series points chart as follows. The field is divided into 2 heats, with the 1st prelim heats being: H1 - 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th etc from the points & H2 - 2nd, 4th, 6th etc. Then the 2nd prelim is also divided into 2 heats, in a different order decided by Wendy, which I think last time was: H3 - 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th etc & H4 - 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th. 11th, 12th etc. Anyway, the points from these 4 heats (with each rider competing in 2) are added up to determine the top 18 on the grid for the points races. A repecharge race is the run to select the final 2 grid positions from those that missed the 1st cut. All fairly complicated, but necessary when there are too many fast riders.

[F5 Dave]

I used to enjoy coming up for these. Actually I hated the coming up part but the racing was good.


So who won?

[kel]

So who won?[/QUOTE]

2hr - Team Diprose cleaned up, I think they may have set a new record?
Nth Island series - Hmm those Diprose guys again, clean sweep for the locals!

[F5 Dave]

Ha, I was going to add, should I even ask? How many times now Dave? Though I assume with son Nat rather than his Brother Steve like the old days. These poor old unreliable 4 strokes don't have a chance in these longer events huh?

[Shorty_925]

So who won?

Nth Island series - Hmm those Diprose guys again, clean sweep for the locals!

And overall for the series? Who got the places for the series in b-grade?

[Henk]

I think B grade may have been a clean sweep for Hawkes bay since none were there for prizegiving.

1st Brent
2nd Detlev
3rd I can't remember but pretty sure they had gone home.
4h on sorry no idea

[Shorty_925]

I think B grade may have been a clean sweep for Hawkes bay since none were there for prizegiving.

1st Brent
2nd Detlev
3rd I can't remember but pretty sure they had gone home.
4h on sorry no idea

3rd or 4th are in hospital at the moment waiting the outcome...fun times...

[Henk]

Any idea how the patients are? I know Brent at least was from down your way

[Dutchee]

Give both patients my best wishes. First one (I think Brent?) was really disconcerting having to ride past and then get the race red-flagged. henk's mum had turned up for the first ever time and we always tell her it's pretty safe (for bikes racing each other).

Kamikaze - I saw him just after he'd crashed, was glad to see him moving, and then when he was back on the bike, thought, cool, he must be okay. When I saw him down again, I thought, obviously the first crash was worse than he'd realised, and saw him sort of looking/feeling his foot.

Not really a good result for anyone down that way (except Max and Andi).

I definitely enjoyed having less nutters on the track this month, and need to twist the throttle harder.

The one time I could've safely pasted Alistair I backed off as thought Tanya was about to separate from her bike (damned good save), and let Julie through not long after that. But, it was nice to be able to keep up with someone who I used to keep up with (once) and now usually blitzes me (admittedly he was on someone else's bike). No matter, I had a hoot, and was most impressed I actually managed to string 40 laps together (my plan of attack had been about 20 and pull off).

[Shorty_925]

Waiting for the swelling to go down and then take it from there, hopefully only that.

[NSR143]

Brent and I stayed in Auckland where a mate put us up in central city and got us a Pizza at 11pm after we spent 5 hours at the Hospital only to be told they would prefer treat Brent in Hastings as that was where he was from, I should have taken a pocket knife and stabbed him in the eye and they may have seen it different, eye injuries get sorted on the spot. We saw Chris van O on his way out of ED and he was still not enjoying the experience. Brent was happy to sit and eat ice cream while I drove back to Hawkes Bay in the Ryan Firn loaned Ford 'crazy' Laser. A bit of glue and a bit of welding and the NSR will be back on the track, Brent may take a little longer.

[Henk]

Bitch about the casualty list, and the treatment you got from the health system.
Other than the carnage it was a bloody good couple of days racing.

[50bucketracer]

Ha, I was going to add, should I even ask? How many times now Dave? Though I assume with son Nat rather than his Brother Steve like the old days. These poor old unreliable 4 strokes don't have a chance in these longer events huh?

That was the 8th win out of 21 AMCC bucket 2 hours (38% success rate). For those interested, other multiple winners are Steve Diprose 5x, Karl Morgan 3x, Greg Pitches 3x, Nathanael Diprose 2x, Hayden Fitzgerald 2x, Owen Wilson 2x, Spencer Bell 2x.

Like you Dave, I am definitely a 2 stroke fan, but I have to very quietly admit that we were the only 2 stroke finisher in this year's race... & that was with our back-up motor...

[50bucketracer]

Here are the full results of yesteday's 2 hour race:

Place Bike # Rider 1 Rider 2 Bike Laps Superpole
1 88 David Diprose Nathanael Diprose RS80 223 1st 30.26
2 23 Gary Cunningham Dave Manuell CB140T 220 2nd 30.47
3 89 Karl Morgan Toby Summers CB125T 219 3rd 30.74
4 52 Richard Ford Tim Fraser FXR150 218 4th 31.64
5 0 John Thorp Nathan Thorp FXR150 207 21st 34.22
6 26 Brian Steffensen Kamil Chodor FXR150 206 15th 32.83
7 30 Allan Pirtle Doug Stockwell FXR150 206 7th 32.23
8 55 Noel Woods Craig Loades FXR150 204 11th 32.59
9 57 Luke Johnston Gary Johnston H125 204 16th 33.11
10 34 Gavin Veltmeyer Steve Booth FXR150 203 9th 32.40
11 60 Stephen Briggs Mario McMillan FXR150 202 12th 32.68
12 82 Grant Farquhar Graham Farquhar FXR150 199 17th 33.31
13 13 Henk Zeeven Craig Vickery FXR150 199 10th 32.46
14 69 Connor Lecheminant Jason Holmes FXR150 197 19th 33.56
15 38 Kelly Nicolson Arron Hooper FXR150 197 5th 31.86
16 19 Marc Wendelborn Nigel Reardon FXR150 197 -
17 4 Pete Dron Andrew Sam FXR150 196 25th 36.04
18 84 Carl Smith Andy Littleford FXR150 187 6th 31.91
19 7 Max Lyver Andy Lyver CBR150 172 22nd 34.73
20 716 Josh Walby Peter Walby GL145 168 -
21 96 Grant Johnston Spencer Currie XL125 166 23rd 35.11
22 24 Nathan Shepherd Ash Hare FXR150 148 26th 36.10
DNF 18 John Steer Grant Salmon FXR150 148 8th 32.28
DNF 77 Steve Bennett Brent Stiver NS125? 52 24th 35.72
DNF 83 Damian Toman Detler Specht FXR150 ? 13th 32.71
DNF 94 Tyler Firn Ryan Firn FXR Loncin 4 14th 32.75
DNF 10 Grant Thorp Paul Cibulskis FXR150 ? 18th 33.44
DNF 54 Scott Kelly Stuart Cullen RS125 ? 20th 33.70

Apologies that my results table has lost its formatting...