Encouraged.

Poor wording in my first draft that was edited to avoid confusion.

Nicely said Tim :)

Either way, it still stinks.

You were "encouraged" by the people who are supposed to run our series for us, who should support EVERYONE in the series - without whom there would be no series either, and yet they basically ask a rider to protest another one AND "sponsor" the cost of it!

So who's sponsoring this protest if it's not you, and it's not the club?

Chris Bushell paying for it?
Monty paying for it?
Paul James paying for it?

The whole thing has brought a cloud over the club.

There MUST be consequences following this. The club has gone power mad and it now looks stupid.

Antony is the fall guy!

Jesus christ...

I didnt know the DesmoDue was full of this sort of bitchary....

I`m glad I didnt get involved, you`d all be stripping my bike every meeting looking for Nitrous bottles as whipped everyones A wholes. :lol:

Anthonye - you have a PM
Tim

The way I see it -

Dom was being called a cheat.
The RC said the ONLY way to know for sure was to have a protest.
That protest was made.
Dom was found NOT to be cheating.

I understand that people are upset, it wasted time, people lost race time, and so on. But what has come out of it is that nobody can now say that Dom only won the Championship because he had a hooky bike.

Remember back to last year and the sniping that still continues about Geoff's bike? There will be no more of that for Dom's win this year. He won it fair and square, which now cannot be disputed by anyone.

By who - exactly ?

Can't believe this occured in what's supposed to be a bunch of friends going racing.
How can an engine protest be justified on a bike prepared by someone unable to strip the engine themselves?
How can a bike be suspected illegal when it can get outdragged by a 2002 5-speed unfaired monster (mine)?
And along with the riders previous race experience/successes??

It's a disgrace.

To answer your questions Dom, neither Chris, Paul the club or I paid for the protest. There were significant whispers within the paddock that some bikes-and yes yours was prime candidate since you are so quick on it-were 'bent'.
I watched the racing closely on saturday and was of the opinion that your bike was legal just you were riding it well-that opinion has been proved correct. So well done mate, you have ridden a good series and will be a worthy champion and no one can now whisper that your bike is not class legal.
You may all flame me to hell and gone if you like, but I actually think this will be good for DD-at least you now know for certain that the winners bike is legal just well ridden.

John

Just like to congratulate Dom and Fil firstly - great stuff.
Also:
I still consider myself a total novice at this racing malarkey but have some burning questions about what happened yesterday. Looking at the results sheet for race 1 stats read:
Dom - 1:23.00 Avg MPH 83.21
Ian - 1:23.59 " " 82.51
Kyle - 1:23.47 " " 82.35

The burning questions are:
1) What would lead a person to suspect foul play here?
2) Can the difference be down to rider ability?

Someone please educate me :-)