A fantastic day at Paeroa

[Bykmad]

in a nutshell-
There was a major incident on the pit straight and yellow flag was waved on that point -Yellow being yellow I slowed on THAT corner and carried on at pace elsewhere
The red flag/chequred flag was positioned in a place I diddn;t see--Funnnilly enough aproaching the fastest left hand corner on the track at full noise you dont tend to look up 3.0m and across to your right.
No argument that the red flag was waved -I diddnt see em resulting in me doing 2 laps in practice I shouldn;t have -I apologised profusely as i was to be asked to leave the meeting for breaching the red flag rules --But complaints from 50% of the feild suggested I was right in that situation and the flag position was changed to a more suitable position

5 riders had to be spoken to about doing extra laps and two of those had a different reason for continuing.
Only 1 said that he couldnt see the flag.
No riders (other than Frosty) pointed out that there was a problem with the location of the chequerd flag/Red flag. I would have thought that if 50% of the field had problems, someone would have contacted race Control.
If you have a problem, point it out to the Clerk of Course or the Stewards. Then it can be looked at and attended to.

[SPman]

Yet another Massive day at Paeroa and thanks to the FROSTY pit, namely MadDuck for looking after our gear while we soaked
up the action and sunrays,

MadDuck - the unsung hero of the Frosty pit and "keep an eye on everyones gear" gal.

[paturoa]

who was this then?

I think it was the blue H2 750 kwaka

[FROSTY:Me]

5 riders had to be spoken to about doing extra laps and two of those had a different reason for continuing.
Only 1 said that he couldnt see the flag.
No riders (other than Frosty) pointed out that there was a problem with the location of the chequerd flag/Red flag. I would have thought that if 50% of the field had problems, someone would have contacted race Control.
If you have a problem, point it out to the Clerk of Course or the Stewards. Then it can be looked at and attended to.

Id suggest you check your facts--A riders spokesman (ray Nairne)
got as far as speaking to the race officials on the dummy grid--The only race officials we could get to due to race control being placed INSIDE the track and being made inaccessable due to a decision made by race control not to open the track between practices--(to make up the lost time due to crashes
The INCIDENT that caused the red flag in the first place was caused by one rider being on his warm down and another not seeing the chequred flag and being at full race pace when they collided
Several riders also spoke to the race commentator during the morning practice and he relayed via RT to race control the comments by those riders.
Proof of the pudding is as they say in the eating--if there wasn't an issue they would NOT have relocated the flags and used a second chequred flag on the pit straight.
AGAIN--I repeat -there was an issue and as a result race control sorted it --pretty darn fast
I give these folk full credit for dealing with several crashes and several incidents during the day that would have had me tearing my hair out.
The logistics of that event is totally mind boggling --imagine the literally tonnes of hay bails theyu had to shift
The desighn of the track means race control is isolated from the pits
Its a logistical nightmare

[vagrant]

hey how many of you lot got a kiss n cuddle from the pirelli gals??
well I did--cos my bike is so
"sexy" in pink

Nice one
.
Thanks to the pitcrew for looking after our gear.

[vagrant]

I think it was the blue H2 750 kwaka

That was Jared Love on the Power Horse Ducati.
Result- busted leg.

Not nice

[crashe]

That was Jared Love on the Power Horse Ducati.
Result- busted leg.

Not nice

They just showed him crashing in the bales on tonight's TV1 6pm news.
Also showed two sidecars having a go at each other too.

[_Gina_]

Got a kiss n cuddle (and a labial rub ) from a couple of KB girls... does that count?

Oi you!

You said you wouldn't tell anyone....

[FROSTY:Me]

ohh --Hey Im sorry folks if I diddnt stop and talk to anyone--or seemed a lil--er distracted --I may have been talking to you but my mind was on the track.

[TonyB]

That was Jared Love on the Power Horse Ducati.
Result- busted leg.

Bugger, he's not having much luck- wasn't it him that flipped his bike at Wanganui?

They just showed him crashing in the bales on tonight's TV1 6pm news.
Also showed two sidecars having a go at each other too.

They love showing bikes crashing on the news don't they

[crashe]

They love showing bikes crashing on the news don't they

Yep they sure do.....

[MacD]

Some more pics of the Pink Terror in action!

Thanks to Frosty and Madduck for the gear storage, it would have been damned hot carrying the stuff around all day

[Kwaka-Kid]

good stuff frosty! good to read man. that track does get worse during hte day tho eh so not surprised ur times coulda got slower.

[FROSTY:Me]

gutted for ya bro. that was a NASTY crash--bike ready for auck nats??

[RC1]

you did great frosty and it was good to meet you and your pit crew, me and julie came over not long after your first race i think it was and you were so rarked up it was good to see you enjoying your day