Up date from Darryll Rayner & Richie Lawrance , Anzac sidecar team over at the Isle of Man as practice week is nearly finished,
Last night nearly didnt happen. We went through scrutineering all right then put the fairing on waiting for our turn. We got up onto the grid and couldnt get any gears. We pulled of to the side and pulled the seat off to find the gear lever getting stuck on the fairing. Grabbing a pair of side cutters to cut some bits away. The grid marshalls were great, saying to take our time. We finally got it back together and left something like 2 minutes after the last bike had left. I didnt have the shits. We just concentrated on what we had to do. Everything was singing along sweetly except we had the wrong gearing. We had to roll off in top to stop hitting the rev limiter. The mountain had stationary yellows for most of it due to a wet track. We rolled off considerably as it not really the nicest place to run off. We got back down to the start line line to see red flags. We were a little pissed off as we wanted more laps. The session was restarted. We took off in our normal position and tore off down Bray Hill. The lap was much smoother. The run over the mountain was still the same and we again rolled off and pulled back into the pits. We never heard that they had extended the session otherwise we would have put enough fuel in to complete 3 laps. We did 98 mph. Not too bad. The Beare Boys managed to pull out a 100mph lap. We were very excited for the boys. The engine is now out ready to put the good engine for tonights practice. We have someone coming around today to help tune the black box as we only have one map for the ECU. We have qualified for the race so we just need to improve our lap times tho get a spot on the grid further up the field.
Dags
[QUOTE=nodrog;1130727017]Up date from Darryll Rayner & Richie Lawrance , Anzac sidecar team over at the Isle of Man as practice week is nearly finished,
Last night nearly didnt happen. We went through scrutineering all right then put the fairing on waiting for our turn. We got up onto the grid and couldnt get any gears. We pulled of to the side and pulled the seat off to find the gear lever getting stuck on the fairing. Grabbing a pair of side cutters to cut some bits away.
Wow, so it is not just here that Chairs are not prepared well before going out. Best of luck to them
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