This could get addictive

[dpex]

If you shut up and listen you might learn something.

James, the entire reason for the post was to 'learn something'

[dpex]

So, righto, tell me what I need to do to get race-legal....And if you mention boots I shall visit and throttle you with my bare hands.

[CHOPPA]

kiwitrackdays are great! Moto tt do a brilliant job and im booked in for everyone of there track days but kiwitrackdays dont have guys on trail bikes riding with guys on superbikes and your aloud to pass on the inside

[FROSTY:Me]

So, righto, tell me what I need to do to get race-legal....And if you mention boots I shall visit and throttle you with my bare hands.

Sorry dude but facts is facts -you WON'T be allowed on the RACE track with those --ohh and youll need a back protector like the one I offered ya.

Most of the stuff you need to know is actually sitting on this site --ya just need to find it.
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=3032

[wbks]

get some oxtar boots, get that funky TCS system they have in 'em

[Gremlin]

I don't mind coming last and then some, or even pitting for some other. I just wanna be a part of this fabulous, go-fast-on-bikes, scene.

Being a pit bitch for someone, entirely different to being on track.

From a marshall's perspective, I can tell you the thing we hate the most (and not trying to be nasty) is a "racer" who is noticeably slower than the rest of the field. Generally they react wrong when being lapped, and the speed differential can present safety problems (I think about it a lot more after last season at pukie)

[FROSTY:Me]

Being a pit bitch for someone, entirely different to being on track.

From a marshall's perspective, I can tell you the thing we hate the most (and not trying to be nasty) is a "racer" who is noticeably slower than the rest of the field. Generally they react wrong when being lapped, and the speed differential can present safety problems (I think about it a lot more after last season at pukie)

mate as long as the club sticks by the 115% rule the difference should be not a lot.
If you are refering to the horrible accident at the pukie nats then it was a machine fault of some sort-and that could happen to a front runner as easily as a backmarker.

[quallman1234]

I do believe you need a X (6 i think?) amount of race meetings to compete in the Street races or nationals.

VMCC winter series, is the best place for you to have a go in clubmans. However thats ages away.
Pacific Summer Series, what is coming up should be a great place for you too get some races under your belt .

Of course there is the 115% rule, to aviod people getting lapped millions of times. The pace is quite a bit faster from a fast group trackday too a race day, even in clubmans.

[Gremlin]

If you are refering to the horrible accident at the pukie nats then it was a machine fault of some sort-and that could happen to a front runner as easily as a backmarker.

With the back straight, bit of a bastard for blue flagging... main thing is the speed differentials between the front runners and back markers.

Hardest part of marshalling is attempting to blue flag the middle of packs from each other. Pretty easy for front and rear, harder as it gets into the middle

[jrandom]

Way hey hey!

You can't get into the street racing (Wangas and Pie Rower) without, I think, three club-level race meets completed beforehand. And I'm not sure whether Clubmans counts for those. And, let's face it, those street circuits are a bit fuckin scary and dangerous and are no place to start one's racing career as a newcomer.

What you're after, dpex, is Clubmans racing. If you want to do it at the Taupo track over this coming summer, Pacific Motorcycle Club are the guys to call.

I was hanging out by the fence and watching you ride in Group 3 yesterday, by the way - didn't get a chance to come up and chat in pit lane, but I did note that you were going well, looking smooth and relaxed.

I'd advise you to chill and stick to trackdays for the moment, though, do as many over summer as you can, and then if you're super keen to step up and race, and your lap times are realistically competitive, enter the Clubmans class in the 2009 Winter Series.



Edit: But make sure you're in Wanganui this coming Boxing Day. Just watch. You'll love it.

[ManDownUnder]

They are one day RACE meetings so you would be watching them

... and the raw horsepower available on the track is f'n scary if you're standing close... yeah - nuh.

dpex - Have a go days are done on the various tracks around the country - find and "Open day" at Pukekohe at some point... and have a go at that!

[MadDuck]

James, the entire reason for the post was to 'learn something'

Now lets see. Did you learn anything from people that know a thing or two ?

Heres my take on racing ...get shit loads of money....fall off a lot....have a great pit crew that will take your vehicle and you back home when you splat....be prepared to see every hospital in NZ.

Have a go at Clubmans...then progress up before you decide on going any further. Walk before you run...track days vs racing are so far apart. Believe me...or not.

[Katman]

See, you guys can get stuff across to dpex.

Me - I'd rather be called parsimonious, pedantic and prosaic.

[Ragingrob]

Can't wait for my first trackday...

[jrandom]

Bet you anything you come back and go "Robert Who?".

If you shut up and listen you might learn something.
Oh.
That's right.
You have a bike license.

He posts that he's going to go to a trackday and intentionally crash, and you're supportive.

He posts that he loved his first trackday and would like to learn more about how to get into casual bike racing, and you get all acerbic.

Don't you think that's kinda the wrong way round?