RG100!! Race Report VMCC round 2

[Toast]

Don't be too hard on yourself young grass hopper. I'm proud of your efforts. Well done for getting pole in qualifying.

Damn Tex, ya didn't tell me you got pole...awesome stuff.

RG100, from your timing sheets it looks like everyone was a bit slower compared to last time, so don't sweat it

[Bert]

Damn Tex, ya didn't tell me you got pole...awesome stuff.

RG100, from your timing sheets it looks like everyone was a bit slower compared to last time, so don't sweat it

I think vtec got pole ????

[texmo]

Depends on how much money I have Glen as it costs me quite a bit to come down and pay for racing.
I am still not sure weather the money is worth it yet as its about the same cost as doing 4 or 5 coroloops...

[texmo]

And congrats to texmo too, for finishing without crashing and running 'atleast midfield' like he had hoped...

I had hoped to finnish a lot better but that is life, It just took me so long to get used to the track and get my lines sorted I know next time in the wet I will be able to do 1:43's easy.
I have printed out a picture of the manfeild track and have found 15 misstakes I made during the race on each corner consistantly I will be able to fix these when I go down for the trackday on firday as I have friday off so I am gonna drive down. I am gonna go over the lines ect I took again as there are a lot of things I know I have missed that I did wrong. My biggest problem was going to slow when other werent around me and exiting coke-a-cola to the hairn pin was the section of the track where I made the most errors, I didnt leave coke wide enough and wasnt getting on the gas eairly enough then drifiting out of the corner setting myself up for splash, I was entering splash to early and not going deep enough before I turned buggering up my next corner before the hair pin. I was coatsing along from splash to the hairpin with out being hard on the gas and changing up a gear. I was going to shallow in the hair pin as well. I wasnt getting the bike over enough on splash. Thats about 1/3 of what I did wrong just from coke to the infeild hairpin so I have a LOT to work on. Basically I am really dissapointed with my self not for my position but with my lap times and my preformance. I know I can do a lot better and I will next time. I just was making to many errors and not pushing the bike enough.

[vtec]

Good stuff RG, getting from last on the grid to 3rd at the finish was awesome in the conditions.

Tex... stop beating yourself up man, you should have seen how slow I was going in the wet at the last meeting. If (like me) you'd never really pushed hard in the wet, you don't know how far you can leave your braking points, and you don't know the best way to attack each corner. I found that having both the streetstock and F3 practice was invaluable to me, and without the extra practice, I may not have taken out the first race. So for your first race meetings the conditions were like a very cold and wet baptism of fire, I reckon you're capable of a podium finish in the dry, so just wait till next round, we're due for some nice weather then. Also, I'm impressed with how much you are putting into analysing your racing, this much lets me know that you aren't going to let finances get in the way of racing.

I'll have my write up done in a couple of hours, cause I'm going to do a bit of reading first before I get on to my novel.

[Sketchy_Racer]

Cheers Vtec,

Oh,

It better be a good novel to read

[Sketchy_Racer]

there are a lot of things I know I have missed that I did wrong

It's not that you did wrong,

It's that you didn't get it just right.

There is no such thing as wrong in racing, just not quite right.

[Motoracer]

I had hoped to finnish a lot better but that is life, It just took me so long to get used to the track and get my lines sorted Basically I am really dissapointed with my self not for my position but with my lap times and my preformance. I know I can do a lot better and I will next time. I just was making to many errors and not pushing the bike enough.

Grass hopper, we need to talk. Come around my place when you can.

[Sketchy_Racer]

RG100, from your timing sheets it looks like everyone was a bit slower compared to last time, so don't sweat it

Yes. But i would still have liked to at least gain a second. I was waaay off the pace of the two front guys

[Two Smoker]

Good stuff on the racing mate Having a good dice with Neil Gutted MotoXXX crashed...

[sugilite:Me]

Great race report RG!
Also very pleasing to see the attitude you guys are showing at this stage in your race careers. Racing in NZ is begining to look up IMHO!

Take it from an old crustie, you never stop learning in this game, and rare is the day you are totally satisfied with everything you did on the track, but hey, thats what makes it so much fun!

[Sketchy_Racer]

It seemed to be a bad day from the start.

the bike got dropped off the trailer loading up.... Damn (broken clutch lever)

Then when we got to the track we had lost the key. and when we did break into the petrol tank we filled it to the brim as it was a bitch to re-open.

But... I can't wait till next round.

Hopefully ill be going a bit better in the wet and if its dry im gonna go super hard!!!

[Coyote]

Damn... Hail. That would've been fun. I missed out

Ah well. Earnt 50 bucks on Saturday. Thats next months entry fee

[Sparky Bills]

Good stuff dude. Too bad about your little lever issue.