Sketchy's NZSBK Rd 4 – Manfeild

**codgyoleracer** · 18th February 2009, 11:55

Great effort Glen & Chris, - nice clean racing & excellent pace. Shame that you didnt have the chance to accept your first national title race win & lap record recognition on the day at prize-giving mate.
Look forward to watching your results in the future and assisting wherever i can to help.
Cheers
Glen Williams

**Toast** · 18th February 2009, 12:49

Awesome write-up and racing Glen.

As for being drug-tested...well, someone clearly thought that you were pretty hot-shit

Catch you at Pukie. Don't whip my arse too bad

**chanceyy** · 18th February 2009, 13:59

outstanding attitude & riding .. with a brilliant race report, you deserved the standing ovation glen

**Mishy** · 18th February 2009, 22:19

Great write up Glen, and a great weekend's racing too ! You thoroughly deserved the lap record and the win in race three, and i was VERY impressed with the way you rode, and handled yourself all weekend.
I remember being told to "leave the bike the f#$k alone and concentrate on riding" by Chris way back in '97 when he spannered the 125 I rode, and it has stuck with me ever since. It's good advice when you have good people around you that you can rely on to take care of things, and I hope neither you or Chris mind that I stole that piece of advice for the weekend. It was a huge thing for me when I raced, and I hope the support you got at the weekend made it easier to concentrate on riding

Awesome effort mate, and I hope you gained plenty from working with Chris - there are not many who can run a race weekend like him, and plenty could learn from his level of knowledge and organisation.
All the best for Puke - bring home that TT ! Wooooohooooo ! ! !

**Sketchy_Racer** · 19th February 2009, 20:04

Cheers everyone for your kind words of encouragement!

Originally Posted by vtec

Brilliant Glen was really hanging out for your writeup, is the OZZy one a K6? I'm inspired to get hold of one of these 450 triples. Maybe we could convert that K5 you were racing in supersport on? I'm off to san fran in march for several months. Will look at getting one when I get back.

Hey Jase,

Yeah the 450 is a K6 model, which i've found out is quite a bit different from the K5!!

It would be bloody interesting to see how the K5 would go as a 450, especially because I think with 20% less power, It might be possible that the stock suspension might be able to handle it a bit better, which would mean a fast and cheap F3 bike!

**Sketchy_Racer** · 19th February 2009, 20:09

Originally Posted by Mishy

Great write up Glen, and a great weekend's racing too ! You thoroughly deserved the lap record and the win in race three, and i was VERY impressed with the way you rode, and handled yourself all weekend.
I remember being told to "leave the bike the f#$k alone and concentrate on riding" by Chris way back in '97 when he spannered the 125 I rode, and it has stuck with me ever since. It's good advice when you have good people around you that you can rely on to take care of things, and I hope neither you or Chris mind that I stole that piece of advice for the weekend. It was a huge thing for me when I raced, and I hope the support you got at the weekend made it easier to concentrate on riding

Awesome effort mate, and I hope you gained plenty from working with Chris - there are not many who can run a race weekend like him, and plenty could learn from his level of knowledge and organisation.
All the best for Puke - bring home that TT ! Wooooohooooo ! ! !

Hey Mishy,

Thanks for the positive comments mate, and the support I received over the weekend definitely made it significantly easier to concentrate on the riding!

I can honestly say that the weekend was an eye opener in terms of realising how important a great team is.

Can't wait for Puke! Are you going to be there?

Cheers,

-Glen

**Robert Taylor** · 19th February 2009, 21:11

Originally Posted by Shaun

Great write up Glen, another part of why you will do well in this game mate.

Gotta concur with that, a great amount of effort has also gone into his writeup. Those that make the effort are deserving of good results.
Time you met my daughter....

**Frenchy** · 19th February 2009, 21:41

well done mate top effort and a great read!

**Nicksta** · 20th February 2009, 11:41

awesome stuff Glenn!
look forward to what the 450 can do in the future!

**Mishy** · 20th February 2009, 19:26

Originally Posted by Sketchy_Racer

Can't wait for Puke! Are you going to be there?

mate, would love to, but family have made plans for that weekend since Jay's accident. Ah, the pleasure of balancing time with a sport mad family and an interest in motor racing, eh ? All good

**Mishy** · 20th February 2009, 19:29

Originally Posted by Robert Taylor

Gotta concur with that, a great amount of effort has also gone into his writeup. Those that make the effort are deserving of good results.
Time you met my daughter....

last time i heard you talk about your daughter and motorcyclists it had the words "never", and "shotgun" in the same sentence ! ! !