AMCC Round 2 Report from Sloan Frost

[CHOPPA]

I figure its probably a good idea to let whoever’s interested in having a read know how round 2 of the amcc champs went down for me…

I drove past the track on sat and had a watch of the training day it was a scorching hot day and the track looked great! Pity I cant say the same about Sunday ha ha.

Practice and qualifying:
I was a bit worried because everyone was chucking on there wets that I don’t have yet but with the weather being off and on I decided to give it a shot. I seemed to time it right on a slightly drying line and managed to qualify 3^rd in formula Auckland and 2^nd in formula 2.

Race 1
Formula Auckland
I had made a few changes to my bike, 1. being a bigger front sprocket which made the already tall 1^st geared zx6rr a mission to get off the line but still managed about 4^th off the line, I got a tad smoked down the straight and made a few back under brakes I tucked in behind James Mair then at ford mountain I tried to go around the outside and had a very scary off track excursion! Anyway that left the door open for a few others to get by. I cleaned out my undies and carried on this time behind Chris Sucich who was behind James Mair so it was all getting a bit tight then Jay Lawrence joined in the fun we all managed to get past James when he had a bit of a wobble down pit straight the 600s then battled till the chequered flag separated by about half a second at the end!

F2
The track had dried out quite well by this stage but it was a feely uneventful race, except from a bit of a battle for the lead between Chris and jay. Jay took the advantage and I chased Chris all the way to the flag.

Race 2
Formula Auckland
As the rain came down we all descended on to the dummy grid, 90% had there wets on except for a few of us that were stupid enough to come out on our semi slicks. I took it nice and easy in this race to come home 1^st 600 and the first of the riders not on wets to 7^th overall
F2
Again with the rain falling however this time 90% of the riders were on the same tyres as me so I was a bit happier, the track was so slippery and I struggled a lot on the start and dropped way back to about 6^th on the first lap, lucky for me but unlucky for him a rider crashed on the extremely slippery ford mountain which bought out the red flag for a full race restart. I decided I wouldn’t try save my clutch this time and got a great start but the fast starting Paul brown and aggressive Chris and Jay got by as well as a black R6 that had wets on, as the race went by I managed to pick off Chris and Paul to put me in third behind the black r6 and jay until the last lap where I managed to finally get by jay up the inside off turn 1 to finish in 2^nd behind the r6 rider

All in all I was happy with my day, its my second race meeting in f2 and my third race meeting ever so I have definitely exceeded my expectations. Its good to ride with such experienced riders they really help me to get my speed up, the wet weather was interesting and its odd with everyone racing slowly but the idea is to stay on and not do anything stupid I guess!! Also everyone has been great with all there advice on tyres setups etc etc and its greatly appreciated.
See you all at wanganui…

[HDTboy]

Mate you're going stupidly well for your 3rd race meet ever.
Jay Qualified 2nd 600 at nationals last year at Puke

[Toast]

Top effort! Lookin' good for the Nationals

I think you'll be surprising a few of the top regulars if you keep improving at this rate!

[CHOPPA]

cheers guys! uming and arghin for the nats but its definetly lookin like an option! Its so good have those other 600s to play with and drag me along

[flame]

Great write up Choppa, I saw you out there ahead of the 'fast' dudes! You must be stoked with your progress, that is awesome stuff! pity about the damp track, roll on round three eh and the best of luck.

[CHOPPA]

Great write up Choppa, I saw you out there ahead of the 'fast' dudes! You must be stoked with your progress, that is awesome stuff! pity about the damp track, roll on round three eh and the best of luck.

Yeah i think im comin about second in the points so ill try get there! Is that you with the trick looking ducati number 99? if it is I raced you in taupo.... Im sure you were with another rider on the ducati i had a chat to him on the start line about how mint his bike "was" unfortunatly I saw it up the wrong way again

[Shaun P]

Nice racin bro, u r lookin good out there, does everyone know about all those motorcross trophies in yre garage?.....

[flame]

Yeah i think im comin about second in the points so ill try get there! Is that you with the trick looking ducati number 99? if it is I raced you in taupo.... Im sure you were with another rider on the ducati i had a chat to him on the start line about how mint he bike "was" unfortunatly I saw in up the wrong way again

Great stuff on the points you guys are fair flying coming over the hill (the only part of the track I had time to get to veiw).

Yep I'm on the black '99' ducati in Protwins, my partner Drew is on the other matching bike number '131', I think his got a bit tired and needed a couple of lye downs at the weekend I had to guard mine with my life so he didn't steel its bits!

[Leong]

Well Done Choppa!! Very cool to watch you dicing with Chris and Jay. We had a great day at the HRC trackday on Saturday and when it rained on Sunday morning we decided to return to Puke and watch you guys race. We were in the stands where we could see a reasonable amount of the track.

Nice racin bro, u r lookin good out there, does everyone know about all those motorcross trophies in yre garage?.....

No... not Everyone knows... but I don't think anyone would be surprised now... So can we please have your CV?

[t3mp0r4ry nzr]

Sounds like your racing well! keep it up and I'll keep an eye out for ya in SS at the nats

[roogazza]

cheers guys! uming and arghin for the nats but its definetly lookin like an option! Its so good have those other 600s to play with and drag me along

Refreshingly modest Choppa, Great to see someone new just pop up and be as fast as anyone . G.

[scott411]

Another Mxer doing well,

good on ya chop, hope everything goes well for the south island,