NZ superbike nats...ruapuna

[dangerous]

K14 had a huge crash getting stuck between the front and back wheels of another bike and "getting rolled down the track like a rag doll" (according to the comentary). He raced in the GP- top effort Kirk, you must have been bloody sore.

tony tony tony... and yet you hate accos discused when theres only speculation

K14 sliped down a gear (unintensual) and his bike locked up the rider behind went clean up his arse, the riders bike cart wheelied away and the riders leg was draged up and over the rear wheel were it was stuck, he was draged for a long time as the speed was well over 100kph K14 held on well for some distance slowing down but lost control and the bike rolled several times, both bikes were in a heap on the main straight and both riders draged them selves to the side... IMHO the race should have been red flaged to much debri on the track and it took k14 quite a while to get up and over pit wall (on the inside of the track 1m from the edge)

[TonyB]

D, D ,D, I'm just repeating what they were discussing over the PA system.

[dangerous]

D, D ,D, I'm just repeating what they were discussing over the PA system.

hehehehe, I know... hay man I seen a chance so I nabed it
I was on site and helped recover the bike, the guy on #7 was bloody lucky not to have had his leg munted good and proper.
K14's bike was a mess few grazes and bit of blood, he rebuilt the bike with sAslex and spear parts and went out in the next round.

Unlike some of the 600 bikes that, well they are rooted.

[gav]

It almost looked as if Gregor Stevens (#7) somehow tagged K14 by trying to ride around the outside of him in top sweeper and leading onto the straight. He tried that line a couple of times but almost looked as if he somehow hit K14 and got his bike somehow caught up with K14, that and a combination of a missed gear, produced one of the most spectacular crashes you're likely to see!
Full credit to Kirk for starting and finishing the GP, top effort mate!

[k14]

Yeah not a nice crash at all. I came out of the sweeper in 2nd gear (as usual) and clicked into third after i straightened up. Then a second or two later the bike jumped back into 2nd gear and then bang. Got gregor's bike right up the jacksie. His bike tumbled away but he got his leg wedged inbetween my rear tyre and seat unit. It felt like my rear tyre was locked up but it was just rubbing against his leathers. So after a bit of a slide with the rear it eventually came around and spat me off.

Damage to bike was enough, expansion chamber, seat, right rearset and brake lever, left handle bar and a few other minor things. Damage to me was sprained left ankle and various bruises and grazes.

Worst thing was that I was in 3rd place with 2 laps left and I was pretty comfortable in that position. Having a good tussle with the other guys.

Last race was a bit of an embarrassment. Just circulated like a muppet and came in 12th.

Pretty dissapointing weekend. But hopefully next weekend goes better.

[gav]

Good stuff Jay.

Does anyone know why Stroud gets to use the plate 'number' S ? I thought that letters were only for international riders.

And keep the updates coming.

Stroud raced with #2, not letter S.

[gav]

Info from www.mcnews.com.au
A fantastic day’s racing was witnessed by a big crowd at Ruapuna Park today at the New Zealand Motorcycle Grand Prixs, round one of the Castrol New Zealand Superbike Championships.

The crowd sat in the blistering Canterbury sun watching the cream of New Zealand’s road racers do battle with the young pretenders from Australia and the USA... The racing was hard and fast with many taking excursions into the unknown.

The Superbike Grand Prix started with a roar and young Aucklander Sam Smith took his Yamaha R1 to the lead, unfortunately luck was not on his side and within a few laps he was down and out of contention.

The restart saw a battle form between the Australian duo of Robbie Bugden (Suzuki) and Gareth Jones (Yamaha) and this to was short lived when Bugden slowing pulled away to be almost the length of the front straight in front at the end.

Hamilton’s Andrew Stroud (Suzuki) fought on to pass Jones to take second. The other minor placing where filled by two more Suzuki pilots Fielding’s Craig Shirriffs and Auckland’s Ray Clee.

Superbikes

Race one:
Robbie Bugden (Australia) Suzuki, 1;
Andrew Stroud (Hamilton) Suzuki, 2;
Gareth Jones (Australia) Yamaha, 3;
Craig Shirriffs (Fielding), 4;
Damien Cudlin (Australia) Yamaha, 5.

Race two:
Superbike Grand Prix.
Budgen, 1;
Stroud, 2;
Jones, 3;
Shirriffs, 4,
Ray Clee (Auckland) Suzuki

The 600 Sports Production classes had just as many offs, with bother the Sadowski brother from the USA going down during the day.

Local rider Dennis Charlett, recently returned from Australia, dominated the Grand Prix from start to finish.

The main battle of the day was between Christchurch’s James Smith (Suzuki) and Wellington’s Jay Lawrence for second and third.

600cc Sports Production
Race one part A:
Matt Sadowski (USA) Yamaha, 1;
Dennis Charlett (Christchurch) Suzuki, 2;
Dave Sadowski (USA) Yamaha, 3;
Jay Lawrence (Wellington) Kawasaki, 4;
James Smith (Christchurch) Suzuki, 5.

Race one part B
Charlett, 1;
Lawrence, 2;
Smith, 3;
Jason Hulme (Christchurch) Yamaha,
4; Nicholas Cole (Hamilton) Kawasaki, 5

Race two
600 Sports Production Grand prix
Charlett, 1;
Lawrence, 2;
Smith, 3;
Cole, 4;
Andrew Evans (Christchurch)
Suzuki, 5.

Christchurch’s Cameron Jones picked up the silverware in the 125ccGrand Prix on his Honda...

Taupo’s Andy Scrivener, the sidecar Grand Prix, Palmerston North’s Glen Williams (Suzuki) can out on top in the Formula Three Grand Prix, while Auckland’s Carl Morgan won in the new Pro-Twins class.

The Castrol New Zealand Superbike Championships now moves on to levels raceway in Timaru for Round Two next weekend January 19/20.

Formula Three

Race one: Terry Fitzgerald (New Plymouth) Suzuki, 1; Steve Wood (Blenhiem) Suzuki, 2; Glen Williams (Palmerston North) Suzuki, 3.
Race two; Williams, 1; Wood, 2; Eric deBoer (Hokitika) Suzuki, 3.
Race three: Formula Three Grand Prix. Williams, 1; deBoer, 2; Richard Newbery (Winchester) Kawasaki, 3.

Pro Twins
Race one: Karl Morgan (Swanson) Suzuki, 1; Geoff Booth (Dannevirke) Suzuki, 2; Daniel McLachlan, 3.
Race two: Morgan, 1; McLachlan, 2; Alan Zitnik (Alaska) Suzuki, 3.
Race three: Pro Twin Grand Prix Morgan, 1; Tom Bos (Christchurch) Kawasaki, 2, McLachlan, 3.

125GP
Race one: Tim McArthur (Dunedin) Honda, 1; Cameron Jones (Christchurch) Honda, 2; Gregor Stevens (Invercargill) Honda, 3.
Race two: Jones, 1; McArthur, 2; Alastair Hoogenboezem (Christchurch) Honda, 3.
Race three: 125ccGrand Prix Jones, 1; Eric Oliver- Maxwell (Christchurch) Honda, 2; McArthur, 3.

Sidecars
Race one: Andy Scrivener/ Bones (Taupo) Sowersby 1735 Haya, 1; Stephen Bron/Dennis Simonsen (Wanganui) LCR1000, 2; Chris and Richard Lawrance (Auckland) YZFR1 Yamaha, 3.
Race two: Scrivener/Bones, 1; Bron/Simonsen, 2; Lawrance Bros, 3.
Race three: Sidecar Grand Prix. Scrivener/Bones, 1; Bron/Simonsen, 2; Lawrance Bros, 3.

[gav]

Oh yeah, mylaps results are up, if ya interested!

[gav]

Race of the day?
The LC cup!

15 88 Stanko 7 laps 14:17.424 32.326 1:57.666 6 105.247
16 171 Buddha 7 laps 14:17.441 32.343 1:57.750 6 105.172

0.017 of a second between them after 7 laps around Ruapuna!

[Kickaha]

Ya know that GSXR's are designed to go fast and make high hourse power...not push a couple of hippo's around on a trike!!

Can it Tubby, the second motor we fitted seemed to be a bit better and not be the usual shoddy GSXR manufacture and actually finished both races, with all three races won by our very own Scrivy/Sidecarbob combo, congratulations guys

Chris Sucich [two smoker] got run into..and crashed..He's apparently Okay..but has takin himself to A & E..was a messy crash apparently and bikes a lil bit of a mess.

The American boys both crashed again in this race...so their season isn't starting so well.

The 600 boys were crashing their brains out all over the place both 600 races were red flagged and restarted

Race of the day?
The LC cup!

15 88 Stanko 7 laps 14:17.424 32.326 1:57.666 6 105.247
16 171 Buddha 7 laps 14:17.441 32.343 1:57.750 6 105.172

0.017 of a second between them after 7 laps around Ruapuna!

That was just about the best race of the day, Buddha should be putting video up of that as he had the "helmet cam"

[gav]

Here's a photo of #27 under its own steam!

[TonyB]

hehehehe, I know... hay man I seen a chance so I nabed it

You will pay for this insolence!

Anyway, however it happened awesome effort to get back on again Kirk! No way should you feel like a muppet.

[Kickaha]

Gixxer Rubbish, some left overs from day 1

[Buddha#81:Me]

That was just about the best race of the day, Buddha should be putting video up of that as he had the "helmet cam"

Farken camera was probally worth .017 of a second. Best race of the day? nah just a couple of goose's at the Nats on 25 year old shitters. Blardy good fun though.

[feral1]

Just got back from a great weekend at the Nats Rnd 1 and NZ Grand Prix.

Was very hot for our first F3 races on Saturday. Just cookin... tires and bikes did not like it one bit. The Metzelers worked good tho

Went up top to the embankment to watch Kirk in the 125GP's. He was havin a blinder and i felt for him when it went wrong as he had worked hard to get to the pointy end of the field where he was.

In F3; Glen Williams, Terry Fitzgerald and Stevie Woods lead the charge, dipping into the high 30's. Glen rode faultlessly all races, while Terry and Steve had both highs and lows (a win and a second, then a crash and DNF respectively).
I rode the hardest I ever had in my life. I seriously tried so hard and gave it my all, and could just hang with them for a lap or so, but was a second or two down. However, the way racing goes, our Team Green was there at the finish. We worked hard and got there and me and my team mate picked up 2nd and 3rd respectively for Round One and I placed 2nd in the NZGP.
Well knock my socks off, i was stoked.

But the ol' GW had a blinder and was right up there. I'll let him tell you's about that.

Karl Morgan in Pro-twins impressed. he had smooth and great pace.
Pity that Sam Love didn't make it to the sartline. While i've never met him, he seems like he has given it his all to be there this season. So to have it snatched away like that suks a bit.
Met Keystone19 for the first time and she was enjoying being back on a bike and hoping to get her pace back.

Anyways, Till next weekend
Feral

Now, where are those go faster pills...