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[koenich]

Great you enjoyed it and nice to meet you

Thanks for the flowers gents!

[yatasaki]

Here is a short report on the racing at Liedolsheim.
It's not too detailed, basically due to laziness and a lack of ability to make things interesting in written form.

I decided to take a look at this race after asking a very helpful person on here for info on different race options.
I was surprised to see a countdown with a small number on it, so off we go!

The race has been run since 1994, on a 1KM Kart track.
There are 3 classes, badly summarised here:

*Open 50cc
*Restricted 50cc (Aircooled, other stuff)
*125cc 4T "Stock"

There is the usual practice, qualifying etc. We turned up at just the right time, as the bikes were being rolled out to the dummy grid.
This was really cool, it was oddly familiar for me; basically buckets.
The classes are a little different but almost all of the bikes would have worked for NZ bucket racing. Likewise, NZ 50's and some 4T 125's would have fit here.

Le Mans start, always fun! This time uneventful, other than the slight jump with people running at the raising, rather than the drop of the flag.

Then, lots and lots of exciting racing.
There were about 6 teams showing really good early pace.
The fastest were really impressive but after the time wore on, and on, and on, it started becoming clear that there were two main contenders.
#29 and #91.
Other bikes were faster in a straight line and for short runs but these two really both had a lot of things working right.
The rider changes and refuling were done well, all riders were fast, they cut through traffic very well (and cleanly).

8 hours.
8 hours is a fucking long time.
That is 8 1-hour shifts on the bike, the teams have a maximum of 3 people.
I've done a 1 hour shift on a 50 before and it wrecked me pretty badly, It's another level (Respect!) to then go and do it twice more.

So, this kind of racing, the nerds can crunch some numbers on pace, time laps left etc.
It was amazing to see it was still a competitive race until the end!

Then there were beers, music and things.

Bloody good time, I met some cool people there.

Something that was really good was the lack of crashes, there were a few, I got a good eyeful of a decent highside- that was, picked, up, taped up, back out!

moto5.de has more info.

So, if you are reading this and are able to take a look next year; it is well worth it.

You should try MEC 24 hours in Kula, Serbia ..
We were holding 3rd place ten minutes before end ....than bracket of dellorto sha broke..
Ended fifth😔
How much performance you have to give for reliability 😎

[Gradella23]

Great you enjoyed it and nice to meet you

Thanks for the flowers gents!

congrats for your win Koenich!
may i ask which engine are you using? do you have some pics and some dyno curves?

I also won a 50cc championship this sunday in Italy, using my own components. I'd love to compare with other european competitors in the coming years.
We always race in short and slow circuits so I've been forced to privilege relatively low rpm usage, having peak power at 12700 with a nice overrev and some hp earlier in the power range, but I'm happy for the torque figures we see, 11,4 Nm at 12400 at the wheel is a good result after just 2 races and a couple of dyno runs.
Some pics of my cylinder here:

[Jan Van Hamme]

JVH, the 50mm duct is WAY too short - and yes Neels has put the 75% area guide in the code, and that is the result you get when pressing the duct exit radio button
when having input a 3 port.

My standard cylinder has a 55 mm exhaust port. I read from Jan Thiel that the length should be as short as possible without losing power.
That's why I used 50 mm for my single-port.

Regarding your recommendations for the 3-port (Wobbly Version 3), I've now come up with 84 mm for the port and 28 mm for the transition piece.
I tried a bit today with the 3-port 190° version, but I can't get it quite right. That's entirely my fault, of course.
It's so bad that I don't dare post it here. So it's going to be a lot of research and learning to get a result.