I raced in the SV class at Snetterton on Saturday. Was in with the Formula 400s and Honda Hornets.

When I say raced, I was out on track with my 583 at least........... Oh, I didn't quite come dead last either. Really I just used these two races, and extra qualifying, as track learning sessions because this was my first time at Snett.

Would I do it again? Only if I didn't know the track. Maybe it'd be worth trying at Cadwell where there aren't huge straights to lose out to the more powerful bikes on. That's not saying I wouldn't come second last again........

You can enter the SV race as Phill says (some of us have got trophies in that this season too). There has only been 1 SV turn up, he fell off at Donny and beat me twice at Snett (typical!). Eric & Ali won a race each at Oulton I think?

It's worth doing at least one SV race @ £25 as you get the extra qualifying session as well.

So you could do DD, SV and SoT for £160-£170 (not checked Cadwell entry fee) and get 3 qualifying sessions and 4 races (1 each of SV & SoT). That's better value isn't it.

:)

Oh, I wouldn't bother with wets, coz you'll still get your arse kicked either way. Unless you were feeling flush ;)

:D

I found the track time at dony and snet really useful as you get your head in gear far better if you have some untimed practice as well ;)
I managed to harry the tail enders as they braked too much into the corners, and even had a passing game with one bloke at snet.
In the wet at dony it was a bit more worrying tho cos they all had better rubber than me :eek:
As dom says £25 for a race + qualy is great value - and at snet it allowed me to see if I could better my dd qualy times - which I did, and that gave me a lot more confidence for our race, leading to my best ever dd result.

Hmm ... perhaps I should set up the spare dd750 as a wet bike :devil:

I'll remind Chass to buy another cup.

How about a polystyrene one next time?

:lol: ;)

no no no
I'd quite like a matched set actually :p

racing with NG in Minitwins means sharing the grid with SoT, which can be a bit hair raising when you get lapped by the leaders on the circuits with roughly a minute lap times.
Its easier to keep out of there way if you have rubber that allows you to lap a bit faster.
Last weekend at Pembrey every session I did on the Saturday required full wets. Sunday morning practice saw the track with a drying line so I took the Class A DD bike out on Diablos and had a couple of big slides exiting the Old Hairpin and Spitfires. I later took it out in the Qualifying race on the same tyres and as the track was dry it did OK.
For the final race on Sunday I put Super Corsas on the Minitwin and used tyre warmers, I spent all race swapping places with Roberto Benini (originally signed for Class A at the begining of the season) on his 996 on slicks, didn't help the lap times but was fun.
For Pembrey I had
Super corsas for the Dry
Diablos as a form of inters
Full wets (used at every MT meeting I have taken part in this year)

I've been adding up the number of laps and miles that I've got out of my Diablos this year so far:
I reckon on having done 6 race meetings and 6 trackdays giving a total of 350 laps or 650-ish miles.
They look and seem fine so I'll probably leave them on for Cadwell to finish the year off....

Yes. You need warmers.

Cant fault the Diablo's for suiting the 600 bikes. Both my sets (one for trackdays and one for racing) are second hand and I've given them a fair amount of stick too and they still good to use!!!

Well done RC or whoever came up with the idea.

I have tried warmers on a number of occasions, but they dont seem to make much difference, just really in the head for confidence on a track I dont know to get upto speed asap.

Andy