Trackday - Mallory Park - Saturday 26th May

Ok, I've just signed up - novice/inters as well. See you there Tim!

I'll see you passing me at twenty million rpm on that R6!

I'm starting to get excited, first track day of the year....

Originally Posted by Tim in Belgium

I'm starting to get excited, first track day of the year....

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And the weather is looking fine! (touch wood)

good day lads?

Yep! Mallory is quite a nice track - weird location, but nice! It was a sunny morning which the clouded over at lunch. Couple of spots of rain, but nothing to make it wet.

Started of in novices - mainly because I hadn't been to Mallory before, but I'm not going to do that again! First 3 sessions, was passing/lapping loads of people and getting really frustrated because I couldn't get any clear air. Decided to switch to inters for session 4 and wished I had done it sooner. Pace was way better matched and I picked up a lot more - seeing other people's lines, braking points etc. Gave me a much better benchmark. Only thing was some of the overtaking was quite aggresive and questionable! I guess everyone just wants to get some clear space as much as the next.

On the laps I timed I was doing around 1:05s - but I know I could make up time on the entry in to Gerrards and through the bus stop.

Good to meet Tim again - hope you had a pretty good day!

sounds like you were lucky with the weather!

I rather like Mallory, shame I couldn't make it. did they have the new chicane in on the exit of gerrards?

were you able to make sue of your new superbike school skills? I'm really hoping for a least a couple of dry sessions tomorrow at Rockingham to see what difference they make

Originally Posted by weazelz

sounds like you were lucky with the weather!

I rather like Mallory, shame I couldn't make it. did they have the new chicane in on the exit of gerrards?

were you able to make sue of your new superbike school skills? I'm really hoping for a least a couple of dry sessions tomorrow at Rockingham to see what difference they make

Nope - it was old full on Gerrards! Pretty sweet corner.

Yep it was surprising how much more I think about stuff since CSS. I would say that all my skills, they taught are far from perfect. I don't think they can do that in 1 day, but it gives you stuff to work on. I could go out on a session and just concentrate on one thing, or one thing in one corner. Looking forward to going back!

Let us know how Rockingham goes today

Yep had a good time too, scrubbed in the new tyres nicely and had some good sessions. A good track with enough to keep it interesting, but easy enough to get to grips with.

The little SV again performed well, had a great dice with a GSXR 750 in the last session, we swapped places about 4 or 5 times, good fun going round the outside of him round Gerrards, a great corner. Need more speed on the straights though....

A few photos:

Edwinas:



Gerrards:



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