Two hour 2014

**Rick 52** · 22nd November 2014, 06:48

Originally Posted by Gazzza

Cool, well you guys enjoy your day.

It would be a shame if you don't make it, the track cost and other over heads have gone up in price but we have lowered our prices, this means we will be lucky to break even this weekend because of Trophy costs, Bucket racing is always going to be the best bang for your buck racing you can get !

Please support this once a year endurance weekend, it would be a shame after lots of work to incorporate Sidcars that we could loose them due to lack of numbers .

**Gazzza** · 22nd November 2014, 15:57

Just wondering I got home today and remembered I had forgotten to take off the transponder off the rig, I went to get it and it wasn't there, it was cable tied on so can't have fallen off so I'm guessing some one grabbed it... Did any one grab it?

**chrisc** · 23rd November 2014, 17:40

Guess who won, you have one guess...

**mr bucketracer** · 23rd November 2014, 19:50

giggles bike

**chrisc** · 23rd November 2014, 19:54

Originally Posted by mr bucketracer

giggles bike

Seriously? After the current history of Mt Welly domination by a certain individual, that's your guess? hahaha

Nah Nathaniel and Tim put 5+ laps on everyone. The giggle hyper bucket supposedly threw a valve but I'll let him post about that.

**Rick 52** · 23rd November 2014, 19:59

Originally Posted by mr bucketracer

giggles bike

Nope ! That one went pop
Records tumbled, again !
Congratulation to everybody that entered, fantastic event, very hard work..
The winners won by 8laps
Myself and Henk managed 3rd, great effort and we were only 2 mts from 2nd place after over 200 laps, thanks Henk for another ride on your well set up FXR .

**mr bucketracer** · 23rd November 2014, 20:02

Originally Posted by chrisc

Seriously? After the current history of Mt Welly domination by a certain individual, that's your guess? hahaha

Nah Nathaniel and Tim put 5+ laps on everyone. The giggle hyper bucket supposedly threw a valve but I'll let him post about that.

giggles bike should be a good pakage , bugger if its done that.was going to put nathaniel but thought his luck may of run out lol thought wrong

**mr bucketracer** · 23rd November 2014, 20:04

Originally Posted by Rick 52

Nope ! That one went pop
Records tumbled, again !
Congratulation to everybody that entered, fantastic event, very hard work..
The winners won by 8laps
Myself and Henk managed 3rd, great effort and we were only 2 mts from 2nd place after over 200 laps, thanks Henk for another ride on your well set up FXR .

well done 2 hours lol to much for me , how was giggles bike going before it went pop

**fixer** · 23rd November 2014, 21:51

Hi all. Results of the 2-hour are on Mylaps.

http://www.mylaps.com/en/events/1098789

Tim

**F5 Dave** · 24th November 2014, 06:13

Good effort Tim. Congrats both of you.

**Gigglebutton** · 24th November 2014, 07:47

Originally Posted by mr bucketracer

well done 2 hours lol to much for me , how was giggles bike going before it went pop

We did a 29 flat on Saturdays practice. Polled 1.1 seconds ahead of Dippy. Dippies bike died in the warm up lap so rode their spare bike.
I will pull it down this week and have a look at the damage and post the photos

**fixer** · 24th November 2014, 09:22

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Good effort Tim. Congrats both of you.

Thanks Dave. Luckily for me, Nathanael did his usual sterling work in the middle hour, because I was completely knackered in my last half-hour session. The riding position on the RS125 chassis really doesn't agree with me. But no one passed me in either of my sessions either so I feel like I did my share. And considering that I started the race on stone cold tyres without a single warm-up lap, I don't think that was a bad result.

I'm sure that Nathanael would have qualified a lot better, if his tyres had been warmed up a bit prior to his Superpole attempt. I should have gone out first, but it never occurred to me, so when he fell off in the Superpole, I had to qualify us. That was why we were over a second down on Jaden's time. But I was absolutely stoked to qualify in second.

Nathanael was running consistently low 29s in traffic in the last 10 minutes of his 1-hour session. If there is anyone who can knock him off his perch as the current Maestro of Mt Welly, he (or she) has yet to prove it.

**Gigglebutton** · 24th November 2014, 09:44

Congratulations a fantastic ride from both of you Tim.
Thanks to the team who organized and ran the day. Even as a spectator it was fun.

**fixer** · 24th November 2014, 10:08

Originally Posted by Gigglebutton

Congratulations a fantastic ride from both of you Tim.
Thanks to the team who organized and ran the day. Even as a spectator it was fun.

Grazie mille! At the tender age of 52, I don't think I would have got too many more (or any better) opportunities to get my name on the 2-hour trophy. Rick and I missed out on it once by a few seconds and another year I miscalculated the fuel we needed and Gary and I missed out on a possible win.

But there's no doubt that the brilliant Hassans on the Superbucket are a combination that will be VERY hard to beat if they can just get to the end of the race.

And on behalf of the organising committee, you're most welcome. It takes quite a few people to get an event like this right and the whole committee and their spouses/partners contributed. I've no idea how John Connor and Wendy used to manage. But I'd like to aim special thanks at Cully for being the man on the spot. It's a big responsibility in this day and age.

**fixer** · 24th November 2014, 10:21

Originally Posted by Gazzza

Just wondering I got home today and remembered I had forgotten to take off the transponder off the rig, I went to get it and it wasn't there, it was cable tied on so can't have fallen off so I'm guessing some one grabbed it... Did any one grab it?

I think it was me that grabbed your transponder by the way. It's all a bit vague now. Saturday seems like a lot of laps ago. :-)

Tim