Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Donny - Virtual Lap info please?

[dickieducati]

that car video is pretty much spot on i recon.

[Jon]

Originally posted by fil2
all this talk about race lines n stuff has got me really concerned...serious i had a knot in my stomach reading all this....

I and others im sure wish they had gone on a track day before the race.....damn this no free practise an no SoT....

Fil I would'nt worry too much if I was you. Donny is one of those circuits that if you have done it before you are halfway there. Just stick to TP', Ali. Rattler or Nicks ar$e like glue

[domski]

Jon, I hope you're not riding like Weeksy... fast down the straight and then using 5 apexes for every turn :P

There is only one apex for Schwantz curve - trust me

You come out of the kink under Starkey's bridge, up the short straight (bendy straight) and then turn left for Schwantz... that's it!!

Nuffink rong wiv my map - Not until they redevelop it this winter, then most of it's being demolished

[paynep]

Hooray for ebay! Motogp2 for PS2 arrived today, so I may be turning up on Friday with squinty eyes and an aching wrist........

Anyone know any good PS2 cracks to de-tune a 500cc 2-stroke to 55 bhp???

(Apart from allowing certain engine builders loose on it)

[domski]

That's harsh.

Got ours up to 53bhp today

Watch out everyone, I could be dangerous with that much power.

Best bit was the extra torque and the fact the bike was running like a pile of poo last Tuesday (apparantly - I didn't notice).

Why can't it be race day NOW!!!!!!!

[paynep]

Best bit was the extra torque and the fact the bike was running like a pile of poo last Tuesday (apparantly - I didn't notice).

Yeah, right, only 1.24s from 50 bhp..............maybe it was my extra 5 bhp that was costing me 5 seconds??? Or could it be the extra 5 stone

[domski]

Seriously.

I thought it was running well coz we got the cam timing done since Snett, but it needed a dyno run to re-do the fuelling (coz of the cam timing)

Then when I got back after Donny, Louigi pointed out that I had run the bike with the air filters on - which loses 2-3bhp.

So I was happy with that.

Then today, he rang me to say that the first dyno run (to re-do the fuelling) showed that it was a complete mess, and there was a flat spot big enough to fit TP into (which I did notice at Donny).

However, the throttle sensor wasn't working either - so that cost Rich £150 to sort, plus a trip back to his workshop to get the diagnostic stuff to set it up - BEFORE it could be dyno'd and set-up.

You following this?

So once the sensor was replaced, they re-did the mapping, got rid of the flat spot, found 1bhp and wait for it.... 25% more torque than I had at Snett.

Needless to say I am now gagging to get on it at the weekend

[dickieducati]

Originally posted by paynep
I may be turning up on Friday with squinty eyes and an aching wrist........

a little too much information there thanks!

[psychlist]

Originally posted by domski
Seriously. I am now gagging to get on it at the weekend

Your latest order from the Ann Summers catalogue arriving then Dom

[Chris Wood]

After all that ......

I had two good sessions Donny last night! Lyn and Max were there too!

Burnt the clutch out after the second session damn must fix that.

Thoughts on my firts time at Donny.

Redgate - late turn in required.

Hollywood / Craner - must go faster

Old hairpin - always seemed closer than it was, will accelerate up the left rumbles, brake, turn at 2/3rds, nail small square of repaired tarmac.

Run to McLeans - GREAT - flat out, looking hard right, knee down through Mcleans

Coppice - lightbraking - down one, turn at the dot before the crest, look hard right at the bright orange tyre wall more than 90' head turn! and gas it!

Esses - all good, can you straight line..ish the first right bit? than over the rumbles on the left? Must try this in practice!

Feels like a REAL race circuit, fast, flowing, wide enough.

TRAFFIC WARNING - Roadworks on M1 at Leicester - I left Northampton - J15 at 3.00pm and got to Donny at 4.30! So add at least 1/2 hour to your normal travel time.

See you all Friday afternoon or Saturday!