South Island Cup and Flying Quarter
I headed South for the long haul to Teretonga on the Friday night after work, Dangerous and Rashika had left earlier and we were all stopping off at Scumdogs for the night, I pulled in to Chateau Scumdog at 11.30pm, Rashika and Dangerous were chatting to Scumdogs better half while he was out patrolling the streets keeping the place safe for us, about midnight Scumdog turns up looking for Donuts, after a bit of chat he heads back out on the road to persecute some more innocent motorists, we’re up at 6am and after a shower and a cuppa on the road to Edendale
Edendale Flying 1/4
We stop at the shops and get directions and soon pull up at the Menzies Ferry Hall, named after a gentleman who used to operate the Ferry over the Matura river, we’re a bit early (like ¾ of a hour) but after a bit a few more bikes turn up and we unload and get set up, sign in complete and briefing given we line up and I’m first away on the , I run the LC up to 9500 (redline) through the gears and it wont quite pull it in top but indicates 170kmh through the traps (genuine 167), next through is Dangerous on the Katana, then the real fun starts a GSXR750 rider who obviously didn’t pay to much attention at briefing comes down the road flat out into the run off area I’m frantically waving my arms as he finally decides to hit the brakes way to late goes straight through the assembly area gets airborne across the intersection (road still being used) and ends up 100m metres down a shingle road semi, he keeps it semi under and doesn’t stack it
Fastest on the day 298kmh from a turboed GSXR750 ridden by some ones grandad who may have set a new NZ record, 288kmh from a ZX12, the new Triumph 675 with 400k on the clock hit 250kmh, there was a turboed GSXR1000 but he broke something on one of the runs going by the amount of oil down the side of it
K14 on the bucket 112kmh, on the RS 192kmh, my Bucket 124kmh and the RD350LC 170kmh, Dangerous must have bribed the time keeper as originally he had 158kmh down for his bucket which would have made it 1kmh faster than the Katana and Diesel Pig gets 193 out of “Black Betty” (CBX550)
South Island Cup Teretonga
They told us the gates open at 7.15am and we get there about 7.30 to find them still shut, they guy turns up at 8.45 we’d forgotten “Southland time” isn’t quite the same as the rest of the world, it’s cold at the track but dry and we get unpacked sign in etc and get ready to go, personally I’ve been hoping for rain as I know I can’t live with the big bikes at this track as it’s a bit faster than Levels and Ruapuna
Pre82 Practice
I put my clear visor on and a couple of laps later pull back into the pits as it’s fogging up badly, I head back out for a couple more and only get about 4 laps practice all up, Dangerous reports a big “lose” over the back when his side stand mount digs in
Bucket Practice
The gearing is abut right and I take the loop flat in top and ride around Dangerous and head of after the other FXR, on the FXR you spend most of the time flat in top and only do three gear changes a lap
http://www.motorsport.org.nz/Circuits/teretonga.htm
Pre82 Race 1
I get my usual bad start but ride around the outside of a few guys through the loop but as we hit the main straight the red flags are out as three bike are down into Castrol, at this point the track was still dry but after a considerable wait by the time we get back out it’s started to rain
We launch off the line and as soon as we hit the loop I’m going around the outside of some of the guys in front of me (including some slow Katana rider) and a XS650 I quickly slot into 4th with Diesel Pig in front, I manage a pass on him around the loop and am in front onto the straight when both him and Darryl Cotton go past in a shower of spay and relegate me back to 5th, I take Cotton back around the loop and get after Diesel Pig who’s chasing the two GSX1100’s but 4th is all I can manage, the slow Katana rider gets passed by Spudracer on his CB250RS race weapon but he lacks the speed to stay in front
Buckets Race 1
Dangerous has asked me how much grip you have on slicks in the wet and my answer was “plenty” I should have kept my mouth shut
Lights out and Dangerous fucks off like a rat up a drainpipe, I go around the out side of a couple of bikes into the loop and chase the other FXR for passing him down the straight and pushing harder through the loop to catch Dangerous, I ride around him at the loop and he comes back at me at Castrol we trade the lead a couple of times a lap and I make sure I’m in front as we hit the straight and think I have it in the bag when I hear the sound of a two stroke off to my left as Dangerous inches alongside to beat me by millimetres
Pre82 Race 2
I love the Loop I always make at least one pass after the start of the race on the first lap there and this time is no different, but then I need to as my starts are so crappy, I’m into 4th again with Diesel Pig just in front and I take him around the exit of the loop and lead him around to the straight where he blows past me again just to have me ride around him again, I come around the elbow get a bit wide out on the ripple strip and then gas it up as I get back on the track just to have the rear light up and slide, Diesel Pig is pissing himself with laughter and hoping that if I do fall off it’ll be on the grass so he doesn’t run me over, he pulls a bigger gap down the straight because of my cockup and I can’t get him back, but then Tony shits a clutch on the GSX1100 and we all gain a place and I come in 3rd
Buckets Race 2
Me and Dangerous go head to head with him in the lead, we both have a “moment” over at the hairpin, his bike steps out as he gasses it up and then I do exactly the same and nearly shit my pants as the back steps out on the mighty FXR we change places each lap and then I block him in behind a RG150 at Castrol and get a gap and lead him to the line for a 1st and to make up for the humiliation of having him beat me in race 1
Pre82 Race 3
Diesel Pig has come close to a win and he’s told me he wants this one so I’m going out of my way to fuck him over, off the line as the lights go out and after a lap I make a pass on Diesel Pig who soon comes back at me, there’s the GSX1100, Diesel Pig and myself chasing hard for the next few laps, they pull a gap down the straight and I close them down around the loop through Castrol the Esses and Hairpin, the white flag is out and I’m right on Diesel Pigs tail coming into Castrol and I carry a bit more speed and go around the outside of him , I hadn’t really planned on it but as I pass Diesel Pig I find I’m carrying enough corner speed to go up the inside of the GSX1100 into the esses, I pull off the pass and lead through the hairpin and down to the elbow expecting them to pass me at any moment, I hit the straight and I know they can both out run me to the line but unknown to me Diesel Pig was trying a outside pass on the GSX1100 when the GSX1100 steps out and runs him off the track onto the grass and this gives me the break I need to beat them to the line for a win
Buckets Race 3
Unfortunately for the rest of us DC has his RS/MB125 back up and running and just fucks off and leaves the rest of us behind, I’m even slower than my customary “dead slow” start and get left at the line, I pass Diesel Pig before the loop and as I come up behind Spudracer, James is trying a pass around the outside on him so we end up three wide as I take them both ½ way through the loop then the other FXR and Dangerous on the way out and down to Castrol, I head off after DC but can’t make a dent on the lead he’s got and he makes it bigger each lap so I end up settling for second
A quick note on the conditions on the day, it was cold and pissing down all day and at times I finished a race and was shivering uncontrollably, my fingers were numb and my feet were fucking cold, but I ‘d have to say it was well worth doing
Diesel Pig put in a awesome performance on Black Betty as he rode the whole day on slicks in the pissing rain and Dangerous was going harder on the MT100 than I’ve ever seen him ride, both Nipper and K14 fell on their arse, but everyone seemed to have a good time (except maybe the young guy they thought had hypothermia)
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so he gave up that idea. We did consider leaving it upside down in the sleet/rain but have concidered raffling it off. Tickets anybody?
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