Taupo track surface?

[Tony.OK]

I found them better in the arvo, but still couldn't apply throttle on it, just lit the rear up straight away. Found that I could coast over without any braking or major inputs but the confidence was affected quite a bit.
They knew the job had been fucked up, there wasn't enough grit mixed in, letting bikes out on it in the damp would just be asking for trouble IMHO. Pretty dissapointing really...............back to Manfeild!

[Shaun P]

demographic location ??

Most likely geographic.....? better call the dictionary police haha

Good point though about the altitude never really thought about that.

[Robert Taylor]

Most likely geographic.....? better call the dictionary police haha

Good point though about the altitude never really thought about that.

Try demographic disposition!!

[FROSTY:Me]

Ok guys yesterday I had a bit of time to chat to track management.
We were " lucky" enough to have our trackday after a big drift meeting.
The drifters laid a fair bit of rubber and metal down.
ANYHOO --The track manager was stuck between a rock and a hard place. He had to get the emultion down or A1GP wouldnt run.

They are fixing the track but need to do the job propperly as in not just a patch up job.
That means closing the track whilst and after the repairs are done

[sinfull]

He was saying last night that they ran out of sand while doing the emulsion !
Thats why the turn into pit str8 feels dodgiest, cause it is, there aint no sand in or on that one and they had to get it layed that night !
he was saying they are gonna redo ALL the patches with an emulsion that has grit suspended in it ! Recons it won't polish off and will shred tyres rather than them slide on it !!!
Waits to see ! Truth will be in the testing !
Beauty is they realise they need to cater for bikes with the increase of trackday companies, race meetings booking it out now !

[slowpoke]

But it ain't gonna happen before the weekend, so it's a leisurely breaky/brunch on Saturday before getting into it and gulping brave pills by the kg on Sunday race day.....and in the mean time I'm gonna replace all the crash knobs (front axle, rear stand pick up, engine mounts and bar ends) with castors just in case....

[sinfull]

But it ain't gonna happen before the weekend, so it's a leisurely breaky/brunch on Saturday before getting into it and gulping brave pills by the kg on Sunday race day.....and in the mean time I'm gonna replace all the crash knobs (front axle, rear stand pick up, engine mounts and bar ends) with castors just in case....

Pictures a bike sliding sideways at 80 kph into pit wall on casters !

Just put blinkers on ! Oh and good rubber lol ! Been a number of track days runnin accross that shit and it's still fucking with my head !
The only real dodgy one is the final corner ! The others ya can still apex on the inside of of the shit ! But the last has only about 8 inches of grip tween the white line and glass all the way round ! Ya can go with a wide line, but not if your defending lol cause sure as hell they will give it a go !

[Tony.OK]

Pictures a bike sliding sideways at 80 kph into pit wall on casters !

Just put blinkers on ! Oh and good rubber lol ! Been a number of track days runnin accross that shit and it's still fucking with my head !
The only real dodgy one is the final corner ! The others ya can still apex on the inside of of the shit ! But the last has only about 8 inches of grip tween the white line and glass all the way round ! Ya can go with a wide line, but not if your defending lol cause sure as hell they will give it a go !

Hell 8 inches should be more than enough to play with..................I get away with alot less

[Shaun P]

Try demographic disposition!!

Hmm I think you must be good at cryptic crosswords

[scuzeme]

I could go out there with a bucket of emulsion and redo the whole lot in an hour or so with the sand!
This is serious shit man i could hurt myself or worse hurt the yamakazi

[codgyoleracer]

One thing to be always abundantly aware of with Taupo track is that the track temperature is always low because of its demographic location and height above sea level. So getting tyre temperature and keeping cold shear at bay is always a challenge in winter, especially if you are always looking for maximum performance, as most racers do.
So arguably the seal patching is more of an issue than with other tracks because of the temperature problem.

Roberts onto it, Taupo is in a natural bowl as well & the cold air just sits there, Ah the days of racing there with white frost on half of the old sweeper are fondly remembered.........

[sinfull]

This is serious shit man i could hurt myself or worse hurt the yamakazi

Ya could always slow down through them 8 corners mate !

[Starky307]

My first track day was on Friday and the mentioned bits of patch work put the shits up me in the first two sessions. Once the cloud/mist lifted and burnt off and the track warmed up it wasn't as bad but still caused me issues with line choice. I really didn't like the last corner onto the finish straight as it also had the statring grid lines painted around the corner right where I wanted to be.

Other than that it was a really good day.

[Two Smoker]

I really didn't like the last corner onto the finish straight as it also had the statring grid lines painted around the corner right where I wanted to be.

Dont worry about it mate, the painted lines do nothing. The white line next to the grass on the outside of the corner only causes a little wheelspin and wiggle...

Cant really comment on the track conditions as of now. But agree with Robert.

[Mental Trousers]

The patches didn't worry me too much at all, except for turn 5 (some plonker left a puddle of oil on the track and the line I use takes me straight through it not sure if it was the emulsion or some residual oil but I had a bit of a slide out of 5 so I took a wide line through there all day) and the final turn. I was riding straight over the patches, onto the inside line, clipping the apex then accelerating out over top of the patches again. No problem.