Sound of Thunder - prodie class

[gunforhire]

does anyone race in the Sound of Thunder series?
would a standard 748 have any chance of not finishing last in the prodie class?
desperate to go racing but no budget!

[Whele]

I have recently started racing with NG Road Racing - I race the sound of thunder and novice class.

Looking through the results listing for previous races and the few that I visited last season, I would say yes - 748's are compedative in this series. NG also runs a street stock class foe bikes with MOT, lights, road tyres and numberplates. Again 748's are high up the results. In fact the series is being led by a 600cc bike.

Many of the circuits are pretty tight, so the 600/750 class of machine are often lapping quicker than 1000cc bikes.

Give it a go ... £35 ACU licence, £16 club membership and about £70 for a whole weekends racing - and practice.

[gunforhire]

sounds great.
can you give me some contact details for them?
also, which tracks do they race at?
any help much appreciated.:)

[Whele]

Check out their web site NGroadracing.org

They are based around central and West UK. Tracks include Donington, Darley Moor (Derbyshire), Pembury (South Wales) and Keevil (Wiltshire)

They are a good club for beginners. Compedative but not too serious. You dont see guys turing up with 2 spare machines unlike some of the more serious/profesional clubs.

Check out the ACU.org.uk site for other clubs around the UK.

[skidlids]

a 748 can do well in the SoT class, last years North Glos championship was won by a 748 although it was a ex factory RS version and 2nd in the Championship went to Louigi on his 748SPS. Earlier this year fellow poster on this DSC board Garry Smith finished 7th at Mallory lapping in 57 secs, certainly kicked my Ar*e. Tracks like Mallory, Pembrey and Brands are well suited to a 748.
As for NG members been serious, some of them certainly are just look at what Phil Bevan turns up with, luckily he is not at Donington this coming Saturday but Mark Buldock from the MRO series on the CSC 996's should be.

[gunforhire]

cheers.
most of the races seem to be in Pembrey though. bit of a slog from london.

[Ray]

What about Croft?

[skidlids]

North Glos races are not just at Pembrey and Crappy airfields, yes there are 3 two day meetings at Pemprey and the day before each of these is always a practice day, so yes it can be a bit of a long trip, but if you go for 3 days it can well be worth it,
This coming weekends race is at Donington Park on the Saturday, the last meeting was at Darley Moor which again was a two day meeting. Earlier in the year we were at Thruxton for a couple of rounds of the North Glos Championship and the Open class was again at Thruxton during the BSB meeting.
The Other 2 rounds of the championship are held at Keevil airfield, which has been on the North Glos calender for 30 Years now and has even attracted the likes of new Zealander Shaun Harris on the V-twin Britten

[skidlids]

"The Only Option is Bemsee" What utter Sh*te,
my views are based on 8 years in club racing 2 as a mechanic and 6 as a racer.
As a payed up member of North Glos for the past 6 1/2 years, a paid up member of New Era for the last 5 years and have also been a payed up member of Bemsee twice in that time.
The only tracks I have ever been to prior to racing on them are Pembrey and Oulton Park and that was only the practice day the day before the meeting.

[chillo]

i've been thinking about doing streetstock or something like...:borg:

[skidlids]

Chillo, your probably just as well off doing the SoT class at club level, you would need to fit a race type lower fairing at least for the oil containment rules. So you may as well get a full fairing and remove lights and mirrors. In the SoT class you will not be up against R1's and GSXR1000's as you would in the streetstocks, which is a already over subscribed class.

[skidlids]

Not Denying practice helps, but this was a post about wanting to go racing with no budget, just like when I started. If you go for a practice day or trackday outside a race weekend, quite often it will envolve a day off work, upto £40 to get to the track and back, £30 in fuel for the bike, around £90 or more for the track time, plus food, tyre wear, brake pad and chain wear, oil and filter useage and not forgetting with a Duke Cambelt wear.
In a race year with say 12 race days spread over 8 meetings as with North Glos you're going to need to budget at least £1000 for tyres, £300 for Belts, oil and filters, £1200 for entries, £250 for fuel to get there, £200 for fuel for the bike, around another £300 for food and drink. Thats over £3000 with out any crashing. On top of that last year it cost me another £600 in lost income from having to take time off from shifts.
Alot of club racers don't need to spend another £1000 or so going to practice on tracks that they are going to race on through the year.
Some of the best value race meetings of the year are those held at Pembrey by North Glos, £65 for a entry that gets you 2 races and your morning practice and for the Novices that book early they get the free Novice race, you can pay a extra £25 for 2 more races, which also gets you a 2nd practice session. you can then do this on the following day as all NG meetings at Pembrey are 2 dayers and if you have the money you can also book the Friday practice, either the whole day or just the afternoon.

[Felix]

Ray, racing at Croft would have to be excellent! It's a great track. I've looked into who puts on club races with Ducati's being eligible and haven't found much. Do you know a club that puts on such races at Croft. I'd be seriously tempted to give it a go.

[Ray]

Felix,

998 Addict races at Croft or knows who organises the bike racing.

Next SoT Race at Croft is 27 and 28 September.

If you are thinking of some sort of proddie racing you have either bought another bike or consider WSB to be a proddie class!!!??

I will look into this a bit more. Maybe a Yorkshire region trip up to croft in September to watch some racing?

Ray

[Felix]

Ray, it does say 916 on it, so that should surely be OK? No?

Yeah, let's organise a day at the races for Croft. I'll be up for it.