NZ Superbike - Rumours

**rustys** · 15th July 2012, 08:00

Maybe Sandra will be the darkhorse Honda rider, this year in New Zealand Superbikes.

**roogazza** · 15th July 2012, 08:26

Originally Posted by RobGassit

Looks like she got the boot. I wasn't aware she had any success in NZ Superbikes as this article claims. Saw her biff someones nice Repsol at Manfield hairpin on a trackday. She wasn't hard to look at in the pits as I remember though. http://barrygrussell.wordpress.com/tag/sandra-stammova/

Be good to see her return to the dizzy heights of NZsuperbike.
Hey, female,seems to ride ok and doesn't cruise round at
7/10ths,whats not to like ? Unless of course she kicks arse.

**CHOPPA** · 15th July 2012, 08:26

To her credit though she was actually pretty fast, faster than 95% of the riders in New Zealand and I think it was her first year riding a motorcycle. I would like to have that ability to throw caution to the wind to push myself to the ragged edge as she does. She is apparently a world class skier as well

**slowpoke** · 15th July 2012, 08:36

Originally Posted by roogazza

Be good to see her return to the dizzy heights of NZsuperbike.
Hey, female,seems to ride ok and doesn't cruise round at
7/10ths,whats not to like ? Unless of course, she kicks arse.

Agreed, Gaz. For all the knocking copped both on and off track, she was on a steep learning curve and actually had the guts to step out of comfy cushy NZ unlike some other riders who could/should have. Potential is useless without determination.

**steveyb** · 15th July 2012, 10:02

Don't say apparently, unless you are being tongue in cheek. Search FISA and find out how 'world class' she was as a skiier.
I did, you will find exactly the same data as her 'successful' motorcycle racing career.
I for one think what she is doing is a disaster for everyone concerned. Riders of her experience and ability have no business being on Superbikes or Superstock bikes, whatever their reasons. It puts everyone in danger and we really should not be making light of it given the recent history of serious accidents in NZ.
If she had spent any time at all on small bikes first, learning something, then she might have developed a foundation of skill, because she isn't actually half bad, just not half good. If she was after the marketing exposure almost any class would have suited that purpose.
She is so lucky she hasn't hurt herself or others in the process.

**Kickaha** · 15th July 2012, 10:07

Originally Posted by steveyb

If she had spent any time at all on small bikes first, learning something, then she might have developed a foundation of skill, because she isn't actually half bad, just not half good. If she was after the marketing exposure almost any class would have suited that purpose.
She is so lucky she hasn't hurt herself or others in the process.

It was suggested while she was here she go to a 600 her answer was that she wouldn't ride anything but a Superbike

**White trash** · 15th July 2012, 10:23

Originally Posted by RobGassit

Looks like she got the boot. I wasn't aware she had any success in NZ Superbikes as this article claims. Saw her biff someones nice Repsol at Manfield hairpin on a trackday. She wasn't hard to look at in the pits as I remember though. http://barrygrussell.wordpress.com/tag/sandra-stammova/

This actually fucks me off. I wish "journalists" would actually put a little effort into researching the shit they write that then gets published.

**jellywrestler** · 15th July 2012, 10:28

Originally Posted by steveyb

Search FISA and find out how 'world class' she was as a skiier.

Doesn't surprise me at all that you're a STALKER, not one little bit, still beats looking up Susan Boyle I reckon

**Robert Taylor** · 15th July 2012, 10:28

Originally Posted by steveyb

Don't say apparently, unless you are being tongue in cheek. Search FISA and find out how 'world class' she was as a skiier.
I did, you will find exactly the same data as her 'successful' motorcycle racing career.
I for one think what she is doing is a disaster for everyone concerned. Riders of her experience and ability have no business being on Superbikes or Superstock bikes, whatever their reasons. It puts everyone in danger and we really should not be making light of it given the recent history of serious accidents in NZ.
If she had spent any time at all on small bikes first, learning something, then she might have developed a foundation of skill, because she isn't actually half bad, just not half good. If she was after the marketing exposure almost any class would have suited that purpose.
She is so lucky she hasn't hurt herself or others in the process.

110% correct

**RobGassit** · 15th July 2012, 10:51

I see she has a Superstock ride in a team which includes Michael Rutter.

http://msskawasaki.co.uk/news/detail...nds-hatch-test

**worm13** · 15th July 2012, 13:26

AGREE!! we dont need ticking time bombs!! with what she has showning its only a matter of time before its all over for her or someone else around her

**Kickaha** · 15th July 2012, 14:09

Originally Posted by White trash

This actually fucks me off. I wish "journalists" would actually put a little effort into researching the shit they write that then gets published.

You can leave a comment on that page, go on, put them right

**scracha** · 15th July 2012, 19:53

Originally Posted by Kickaha

It was suggested while she was here she go to a 600 her answer was that she wouldn't ride anything but a Superbike

I actually admired her determination, self-promotion and complete lack of fear but yeah.......walk before you run. In my opinion though, it's more of an issue with our complete lack of race-license "testing" than anything else. Any Tom, Dick or Sally can pretty much jump on the starting grid of an NZ superbike race.

Originally Posted by Jellywrestler

still beats looking up Susan Boyle I reckon

OK Paul Henry

**steveyb** · 15th July 2012, 22:10

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

Doesn't surprise me at all that you're a STALKER, not one little bit, still beats looking up Susan Boyle I reckon

You are too perceptive for your own good. OK, I certainly admired her 'skills' off the track more than those on the track. All anyone could talk about over nationals in 2010 I think it was, was her blowing up bikes, crashing, having everyone run around after her and that she was a champion skiier. So I looked her up to check it out for myself. A handful of FISA starts only in Poland and Slovakia, mostly DNF's.

Originally Posted by scracha

I actually admired her determination, self-promotion and complete lack of fear but yeah.......walk before you run. In my opinion though, it's more of an issue with our complete lack of race-license "testing" than anything else. Any Tom, Dick or Sally can pretty much jump on the starting grid of an NZ superbike race.

Yes, that is what I was getting at, but in addition, the gung-ho attitude that so many riders seem to have that they can jump on 600's or 1000cc racebikes and be Valentino Rossi or Troy Baliss immediately. So many do not appreciate the skill needed to race at that level, rather than just ride around the race track that is. So they go out, go slow or crash. Any rider who is at the top of those classes has done an apprentiship of some kind in smaller bikes or MX or the like. The consequences are too high. I just don't get it. I don't pretend to be any champion rider, but I know how to race and race reasonably fast for someone my age and lack of regular tracktime, and I have been doing it since 1987, but I would not even consider trying to race 600's let alone Superbikesl How anyone can consider it as their first racebike is simply beyond me.