First trackday of 2007-Brands Hatch Indy Saturday 3rd March

[lukemillar]

Originally Posted by teriyakimonkey

Wish me luck peeps. Raining now and meant to be raining tomorrow. Great. Haven't got a great history in rain and like luke said " I'm ****" except I'm probably one hell of a lot ****er! At least it'll be a nice cold, wet ride down there. Thermals methinks.

I'm off to bed. WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!!!

[INSERT HERE THE PRAYING SMILEY-NOT WORKING. Is that a sign?]

Don't stress! It's supposed to stop raining in the next hour or 2 and the morning is supposed to be dry! Well, that's what BBCi say anyway so who knows. See you tomorrow

Luke

Well it is a lovely day where I am ... hopefully you boys are having fun out there in the sun

I expect a full report this evening

[lukemillar]

Just got in - f*** me, I am exhausted! Pretty good day. All kept it shiny side up. Got there at 7:00 to get a garage and was the only one there! Weather had been showers/spitting the whole way there, though by the briefing it had stopped, the track was still pretty damp.

1st session/sighting laps absolutely sucked. Probably because I didn't know the track + we were the first out so there was no drying line yet, but the bike felt like it was going to disappear from under me - especially around paddock hill bend. Considered sitting out the next session until it had dried a bit, but was glad I didn't. Every session got drier and by the one before lunch - it was sunny! Probably my best session of the day as well.

an excellent day, the weather came good, damp track first session, mostly dry line second session, fully dry thereafter I didn't crash, which is becoming something of a habit, clearly need to be braver/stupider. luke timed me on a 1:01 lap in the 3rd session, I was faster in the 4th, so I'm going to claim a 1:00

good to see luke again, didn't get a chance to speak to teriakimonkey

was chatting to a couple of guys in the adjacent garage ( 18 ) who were going to be doing the gixxer cup. one of them (sorry mate, forgot your name) had just bought an SV so I directed him to here. say hello if you read this

roll on rockingham

~andy

Right, I better book onto Rockingham tomorrow then

If you were doing 60s laps under trackday conditions, then you would be able to tag onto the back of the clubman minitwins pack 4 sure:-

http://www.mylaps.com/results/newResults.jsp?id=373566



You would however need to drop a few more secs to tag onto the back of a Dyna-Pro minitwin pack ...

http://www.mylaps.com/results/newResults.jsp?id=373570



a 51.673 is very impressive on a minitwin!!

Wetted ya whistle??? Come on - get out there in Clubman minitwins!!

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Right, I better book onto Rockingham tomorrow then

you still haven't booked?!?

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

If you were doing 60s laps under trackday conditions, then you would be able to tag onto the back of the clubman minitwins pack 4 sure:-

http://www.mylaps.com/results/newResults.jsp?id=373566



You would however need to drop a few more secs to tag onto the back of a Dyna-Pro minitwin pack ...

http://www.mylaps.com/results/newResults.jsp?id=373570



a 51.673 is very impressive on a minitwin!!

but surely a piece of cake now that you have your ohlins?

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Wetted ya whistle??? Come on - get out there in Clubman minitwins!!

hmmm

Originally Posted by weazelz

you still haven't booked?!?



but surely a piece of cake now that you have your ohlins?



hmmm

LoL, I did say from the off that I was only going to book on this week

I laugh at your 51s and foresee 47s ....

Where do you see you could make more time on your next visit??

Not long woken up after getting in. Excellent day. Miserable start and only had one hour sleep last night due to nerves. I am a wimp.

I done all of the sessions and apart from a slight detour over the grass due to someone cutting me up and finishing midway through the last session (I survived!) I done all the other sessions. I was as slow as slow can be but gradually improved. I measured my chicken strips disappearing on my new tyres (bit twitchy) and even got my toe down on the last session! Tyres got all bobbly too. I got to love paddock and druids-especially druids as I could feel it coming together there. Who'd have thought that one day I couldn't do right handers? I liked the lightness at the back of the bike from braking for paddock. Silly thing, but I found braking hard for Graham Hill bend hard after a few sessions. I got an instructor out with me who put me straight on my terrible braking and who also got a complete moron moved up to intermediate from our group. He must've cut me up 6 or 7 times and the other people I was with had seen him being a fool too.

All in all it was a good day. The R1 with us spat out half of it's oil at the very end of a session as he was coming into the pit lane. That's what I call lucky. The people there were excellent. Friendly and very helpful. I got some advise about weighting the outside peg and it made a huge difference. I found the whole experience better organised and safer than Cadwell Park. I'm afraid I succumbed to getting the 30 quid photo CD although they definitely didn't get my best moments . I'll find a good one and put it on tinterweb.

There was a downer put on it though. On the way back one of our gang who'd just passed his test and came up with us to watch came off. I pooped my pants when I came round the corner and saw the bike on it's side smoking. Luckily he was ok but his bike is definitely a write-off. I think he froze and got the bike standing up on a very tight slip road off of the M25. He said it just wouldn't lean. The bike hit a barrier support and snapped it. It brought it all back down to Earth with a hefty thump. His lid did a very good job. Poor fella.

Was nice to meet Luke. I'd have talked more if I could've found his garage! I did see him on track in a blurry, getting overtaken fashion. Didn't realise there was another from here there.

I'm definitely up for another. Mates want to do Silverstone GP although I think it'll be too fast for me. Any thoughts?

P.S. Why do I look like and feel like I have windburn? I ache.

Originally Posted by chunkytfg

tripple post even

Originally Posted by chunkytfg

oops doubel post

He he he.

[lukemillar]

Originally Posted by teriyakimonkey

.... who also got a complete moron moved up to intermediate from our group. He must've cut me up 6 or 7 times and the other people I was with had seen him being a fool too.

This guy was sharing the other half of our garage. I noticed him being a nob and funnily enough, when he got kick up to the inters, Weaselz noticed he was a nob too!