Methven Mountain Thunder Street Race 2014

[Kickaha]

I realy like the look of the track BUT BUT BUT, I hope the organisers learned a bloody good lesson and NEVER have a fukin car parked in the impact zone ever again

No Shaun, I'm sure they didn't learn anything from incident at all

[SMOKEU]

No Shaun, I'm sure they didn't learn anything from incident at all

What happened?

[Yow Ling]

Couple of buckets crashed

[dangerous]

Couple of buckets crashed

and in great style
the asburton TV vid right at the end, that silly bugger in the green leathers... shit thats a long slide like how he has time to look at the other rider sliding on his arse, do ya think they were talking to each other bout the weather or maybe fark the roads hot?

[Kickaha]

What happened?

Go back a page and have a look at the videos, bloody good of Yowling to crash in front of the Tim so he could get some good footage with the Gopro

Hows the elbow and rest of the body Mr Ling?

[Bert]

Couple of buckets crashed

So what was the cause of the crash Mike?
Bike was looking good up to that point.

Or maybe best moved back to the bucket section..

[trustme]

How many spectators were there ?. Looks kind of patchy on the vid.

[Triplenut]

I realy like the look of the track BUT BUT BUT, I hope the organisers learned a bloody good lesson and NEVER have a fukin car parked in the impact zone ever again

Car was the recovery vehicle and where it was parked is not normally an impact zone, very unusual place for riders to crash and end up.
Racing was immediately stopped and extra bales added to area, Cops were also stationed there to help keep clear of people.



Spectator numbers usually 3-5000 , definitely down to around 2000 this year due to poor weather leading up to the event.
People were coming and going all day.

[quickbuck]

....., very unusual place for riders to crash and end up.
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Ummm, outside of ANY corner is a usual place for bikes to end up if it all goes pear shaped....
Hence most times I opperate a recovery vehicle i am on the INSIDE of the track....
Although there is no rule that says bikes won't end up there either.....

[Grumph]

Ummm, outside of ANY corner is a usual place for bikes to end up if it all goes pear shaped....
Hence most times I opperate a recovery vehicle i am on the INSIDE of the track....
Although there is no rule that says bikes won't end up there either.....

in point of fact, that is the inside of the track...and the pit exit. Having run the dummy grid there in a previous year and been stood on that corner all day, I'm still trying to work out how the hell they wound up where they did. Mike's leathers must have given enough grip to curl the pair of them well off line. Normal impact zone there is about 10m to the right in the direction of travel.
However, as triplenut says, more bales in there and cops to keep people back - and a no go zone in future.

[quickbuck]

in point of fact, that is the inside of the track...and the pit exit. Having run the dummy grid there in a previous year and been stood on that corner all day, I'm still trying to work out how the hell they wound up where they did. Mike's leathers must have given enough grip to curl the pair of them well off line. Normal impact zone there is about 10m to the right in the direction of travel.
However, as triplenut says, more bales in there and cops to keep people back - and a no go zone in future.

Fair enough............

[budda]

Fair enough............

From the laps I've done round there on foot, looked like it happened pretty close to where theres a water? cover in the road (always well marked by the Organisers ), sure wasn't where I'd expect any "braking" incident though.

I'd agree with Greg, having been there alongside him at times - but, as we can clearly see, the unexpected can and does happen ..........

[Autech]

Happened right next to me and I didn't notice .

Been to Methven 3 times now and I must say from a spectators perspective there are a few places I wouldn't stand, that corner being one of them and the other two coming on to the main straight as I'd fear a 1000cc high siding and catapulting into me.
That said street racing is dangerous and even with the most pre-planning incidents do happen, I remember I was at Paeroa a few years back and a chap hit a forklift which was parked up. Lets hope the fireman that got hit recovers quickly.

Looked like an odd accident possibly a locked up front in the dirty stuff off line?

Definitely a lot less spectators this year, but the weather would have scared many a biker away. Over all had a great day, weather held out, some great battles in the pre '89 class, Phillip Muir had that VFR flying, very impressive.
Can't wait to get my arse/bike sorted out and give it go myself!

[dangerous]

interesting for me as I saw it straight on, and having seen the on bike cam posted back a page... IMO a typical racing crash, 88 was taking 8 on what will soon be the inside (oppisite side to were wreckage ended up) a very nice pass but for some reason just after the pass and while in the middle of the track 88 front locked up went full lock and down, 8 ran him over, with all the friction the bikes changed direction and headed infeild. Yes a bail beter placed would have helped but shit... were on a street circuit is a safe place? there aint, and if there was why would ya watch from there, nature of the beast, damned if ya do damned if ya dont.

I remember watching a CBR get a tankslaper on, bike ended up over a fence were you would last expect an impact.

[SMOKEU]

Here are some rough, unedited races I filmed: