Cemetery Circuit Prize Giving

[Billy]

Well I've been going for 42 years in a row and have to agree it was a long day and it was the first Time I have left early.I was talking to a solo rider who said they should get the sidecar boys who run taupo to run it as he said it the taupo meeting was one of the better meetings he had been to,and for fuck's sake shaun I'm sure if you where up there trying to thank your sponsors you would be bleating + whining like a little girl about the noise as well.

To be fair,Running a street circuit is a completely different animal than a closed circuit,There is so much more involved in running on the streets that anybody whos run a glorified club day on a closed circuit successfully would easily be out of their depth,Also I thought these same guys did an excellent job of the previous 2 rounds at Hampton Downs and Manfeild,In over 40 years of competing I have attended a number of meetings that seemed to go pearshaped from the outset and they werent always on street circuits and some of them were run by the most experienced people in the country,There were a number of variables that could have caused the numerous hold ups yesterday,Shit happens,Deal with it!!!I suppose we could all get behind these guys as Ivan has suggested and try and help them out and thank them for the things they got right and the fact they ran a 3 round series and nobody was killed!!!Or not,What was I thinking,This is Kiwibiker,Home of the Kiwi pessimist.

Oh and as for the original reason for the thread,Ive been to many a prizegiving where BB was loud and obnoxious and as your on his team Steve,Im assuming Dan was unable to thank his sponsors and thats what your unhappy about???Ever heard the saying "What goes around,Comes around"????

[speights_bud]

firstly my apologies for being tied up in the Red flag starting Race 1 in F3, unfortunately the rider inside of me decided he wanted to head straight into the bottle bags instead of around the corner and i was in his way, I'm just happy to have nothing more than a few bruises and no damage beyond duct tape repair so i could make Race 2. Accidents happen throughout the day and we have to expect delays from them. Might i add F3 race 1 was also shortened to 6laps from 8.

My 2c,

To be honest i don't know how the event normally runs as it was my first time as a competitor, but i really felt it was pretty shoddy.

As a cemetery circuit Virgin i lined up on the dummy grid with all the others to do our sighting laps, once the track was finally cleared for us, about 5-10mins of sitting on the grid with us 2-strokes starting to overheat so we'd shut down, thought we were good to go, so started up again, then the 'lead rider' with his hi-vis vest on can't start his motard??? we now spend another 15mins waiting while they push him around trying to start it, then different people trying to kick start it, and then someone pushes him back up pit lane trying to start it again and eventually someone runs back into the pits and gets another rider and he comes over and starts the bike! you'd think they'd just get another bike from anywhere nearby or let us chase the pace car around or something, that circus chewed up a good 20-30mins before we'd even got started....

The PA system in the pits was a heap of crap, we kept getting intermittent calls, and the person behind the Microphone didn't seem to know what was going on later in the day, and like ivan said we wouldn't have known if our class had been canceled, i was waiting for F3 Race 2, and i wasn't sure if we were even going to get a race.

Glad i did Wanga's just to say i have, track really was a lot of fun & i was definitely not the fastest person out there. But woulda loved to get some more time in a really Nail the esses. But at the end of the day it was alot of money to get 20mins of track time for 10 hours of waiting.... i wont be back as a competitor anytime soon.

[Paul in NZ]

Sigh! I can't figure out why I didnt bother taking my grandsons up eh?

[Grumph]

Billie's right - shit happens. like him I've been to - and worked at - a lot of street circuit meetings over the years.
Some years are great - some years just seem fated to be fuckups.
i wasn't at wanganui - haven't been for some years but it sounds like nothing has changed.

Wyndham this year was from what's been posted here very similar - lot of crashes and a fire too...I hope this isn't going to be one of those seasons where a lot of riders leave the brain in the toolbox.....

Ultimately the organisers are at the mercy of the riders - you can plan for any contingency but some dipshit will find a new way to fuck up your programme. I must admit though that the pilot rider for novice groups being unable to start his bike is pretty much a new low.

[Shaun]

Oh and as for the original reason for the thread,Ive been to many a prizegiving where BB was loud and obnoxious and as your on his team Steve,Im assuming Dan was unable to thank his sponsors and thats what your unhappy about???Ever heard the saying "What goes around,Comes around"????

Originally Posted by BIG DOUG
.I was talking to a solo rider who said they should get the sidecar boys who run taupo to run it as he said it the taupo meeting was one of the better meetings he had been to,and for fuck's sake shaun I'm sure if you where up there trying to thank your sponsors you would be bleating + whining like a little girl about the noise as well.



The awnser is above your post Big Doug!!!! Not BB bleating like a little girl, just steve bleating as per usual

[Shaun]

The running of Wanganui has been fuked since the day Barbara lett was removed

[Ivan]

I have since emailed them and suggest other people do if you have a opinion on things they could improve etc, If we all just have our say on here and not to them they dont actually know how we feel and think everything went fine,

Like I say overall the time on track we got I loved every minute of it,
But there was a few things I noticed that needed attention I emailed them about fire extinguishers and I think this is really a valid point for every motor cycle club in New Zealand we have the things there but when we actually need them do we know how to use them? Like I say its not hard to pull all the marshells aside first thing in the morning and give them a quick run down on it as you should also give the extinguisher a test shot before hitting the fire

[Tink]

While we're bitching...
I have to say that it was the worst-run race meeting I've ever been to. Long delays that appeared to have no reason, 10.50 kick-off that became 12.30, more delays, siren-playing Kizashi blatting round and round, quad-bike marshal no helmet for much of the day and going WRONG WAY ON A LIVE TRACK.
I hear that's 2 years in a row of such bullshit? Wasn't there last year and prolly won't bother next.

Twas only my 2nd CC and the first blew my mind, loved it, managed to get back two years later (kids)... and mightily disappointed with how much I pulled my book out to read due to boredom, arrived a t 9.30 left at 5.45... so addicted to the racing, but the wait was just too long. I will be back, but I hope it improves, Maxine S. said the marshalls took too long to get to the classic sidecars... when on fire... are hay bales used a lot... quite scary how quick they burned.

[cowpoos]

also respect cutting our final race for the day when we had decent numbers why couldnt you combine us with modern sidecars as there was only 4 of those left out there and 14 of us classics

My pilot had payed the same ammount of money as any other class out there and we got sent home early real respect

Because after the fatality at Paeroa MNZ say you can't mix the classes
(and there were 8 moderns for the last one)

Going by previous years I really doubt they give a shit about any classes except F1 & F2

don't spill oil on the track and ruin it for everyone else!! or don't whinge!!

[tri boy]

The running of Wanganui has been fuked since the day Barbara lett was removed

Baps was a legend. Even Cosford could wrangle a show together.
Personally, I don't bother going anymore.
Hope it gets better in the years to come for everyones sake.

[Ivan]

don't spill oil on the track and ruin it for everyone else!! or don't whinge!!

All fine and well if we were the only class to that I know the solo classes had bikes dropping oil and lots of it so thats not a excuse and to not get an offical word from the organisers they had dropped our class is fucken bullshit to be honest

[Mom]

Didn't attend. Have not heard directly from anyone who did. Always read the racing forums to see what "really happened" before I see it on TV.

Reading some of these comments saddens me. Cemetry Ciruit, Boxing Day Races is a flag ship event for NZ Motorcycling Racing. Well at least it is one of the only times the general public get to be enticed to go along for a looksee at Motorcycling racing if they are not "INTO" it.

Roll on Paeroa!

[cowpoos]

All fine and well if we were the only class to that I know the solo classes had bikes dropping oil and lots of it so thats not a excuse and to not get an offical word from the organisers they had dropped our class is fucken bullshit to be honest

errrr.....I was trying for a wind up....was looking for a bite....wasn't really looking for a serious reply.

well valid reply it was though!

[Ivan]

errrr.....I was trying for a wind up....was looking for a bite....wasn't really looking for a serious reply.

well valid reply it was though!

Can never tell whos serious or not on here hard to tell in writing,

[Ivan]

Didn't attend. Have not heard directly from anyone who did. Always read the racing forums to see what "really happened" before I see it on TV.

Reading some of these comments saddens me. Cemetry Ciruit, Boxing Day Races is a flag ship event for NZ Motorcycling Racing. Well at least it is one of the only times the general public get to be enticed to go along for a looksee at Motorcycling racing if they are not "INTO" it.

Roll on Paeroa!

I believe it was still a good day for the crowds it was abit behind with things but overall you have to expect that theres no room for error really so when you do stuff up it tends to be a bit worse and need a clean up

I think the people spectators and all need to send the organisers an email and let them know what you think needs improving cause like I say without anyone telling them they aint going to know