NZs next World Road Race Champion?

[750Y]

sounds like a good start to me.

[Dave]

Yeah I had some hassles with getting some stuff out of aussie,and I've given my fibreglasser and signwriter so many big jobs at short notice this year I decided to wait this one out.
I'm going to fire the bike together over the next 2 weeks and then head out to puke with the standard engine and do a bunch of laps.Also be getting Norm at supercross to give my forks the usual spruce up.

[SPman]

Originally posted by bluninja
. Still....I'm having fun. 
 

Isn't that , ultimately, what  it's all about!

[babyB]

NZs next World Road Race Champion?............i want to be!!!  but who the hells gonna send me to the Racing School? whos gonna give me a that lucky break?....me & my wallet i reckon.

my frist trip to the track with my bike (thanks to the last owner of my bike), was a real eye-opener . i got introduced to ppl, given lots of encrougment & advice. sent my partner out on the bike first, dam then i got cold feet & didnt want to go out...more advice & encouragment given, they even set up another rider to go with me (talk about chicken shit). in the end my partner borrowed a bike and rode with me.....i so loved it.....then took partner to hospilal.....got back to track with more encouragment i got a bit of riding in. oh i had my 2 kids (8yr, 2 1/2yr old) with me too....all-in-all i couldnt have asked for a more helpful bunch of people at the track.at the days end i felt like a champ....if it wernt for these ppl i wouldnt have got back on track

IMO you all are champions when you can do the best that you can, you enjoy what your doing ,and you help those who need it.

at the lower leval this sport needs promoting

[Motu]

Just another note about times past and the WANT to go racing - When they started a stock bike or flat track class at Rosebank Speedway in the late 70s you couldn't keep guys off the track...there were 25 bikes out at a time,total carnage (Sleepy Tripp got run over by the whole field,in a T shirt!) so they had to split them - 12 bikes on the grid,thats 3 rows deep at a speedway track.If they did it again these days who would get out there? - SFA!!!!

[Kwaka-Kid]

is there not a dead stock f3 style class around anymore? i thought clubmans f3 had fairly tight limits/hoped

[Dave]

KK. clubmans and F3 are totally diferent classes.F3 has strict guide lines for engine size,configuration and mods,etc.
Clubmans is run what ya brung-and is intended for club members wanting to have a go at racing to get in and have a try without having to buy special equipment.

[bluninja]

BabyB, so are you bringing partner and kids to Taupo? I'm bringing mine if the weather is dry (6,7,9 years old). Well I must say it is going to be a privelege racing against a future world champion that is also going to be the first woman to do it  

Nice AGM last night, learnt some new stuff relevant to this thread.....

AMCC provide a scholarship to help kids 13-15 get more into racing. There's also a deal whereby raceparts for 150s are provided at heavily discounted rates for young riders. In addition there are days setup during school holidays at Mt Wellingotn Kart Track for kids to be coached in racing, and I think the clubs training bikes go there at some bucket meets (not sure who gets to ride them though). So there are some initiatives in place for younger riders, though clearly not publicised enough.

As for the nationals, no dates set but there are plans to have 2 groupings, group 1 will be the 600 and 1000 production superbikes classes, and group 2 will be the other current championship classes. Group 1 may have 2 rounds in a mixed car/bike meet allowing the event to be televised (cost for getting it televised???? is too much for MNZ alone). I wasn't clear whether this meant that group 2 would only have a 3 round championship, or whether there would be 2 rounds seperate for the group 2 racers.

TTFN

 

[Kwaka-Kid]

ohh okay blu- from what i udnerstood.. back in the "day" in clubmans there were Formulas.. so in clubmans id enter f3-clubmans, so im only with bikes my size etc... i take it these days there arnt enough people so do they mix them all up? - or am i mis-informed from the way it was in the 70's/80's?

[bluninja]

Don't know how things were in the 70s/80s esepcially in NZ so I can't comment. But Clubmans is definately a mixed class now ranging from 150s through to 1200cc bikes. Not all Clubs run clubmans as often the numbers are low. If you go to silverbullet website you can see the results for the PMCC round 1 and see the mix of bikes that entered clubmans; though the majority of 'modern' bikes would have qualified for F3 anyway with the exception of the GS1000 and the GSF1200.

TTFN

[babyB]

yep Blu...partner & 3 kids comming rain hail or shine

couple of them Champs' finished at the back of the field in the begining too.

[Kwaka-Kid]

ohh okay thanks for that Si. cheers heaps ill google the silverbullet site.

[bluninja]

KK try http://www.silverbullet.co.nz/

TTFN

[Kwaka-Kid]

oh yeah, already went htere lalt night and al found it easy enuf.

cheers for that dude, i vagually remember finding that site when i first found this site agesa ago, googleing for ZXR400 or somthing i think.

[Ivan]

Jay Lawrence is going to be definetly