Due to a complete lack of testing as I have only had one outing on the bike and then it played up only managing 3 short laps at a time then I can see me loosing out on a lot of points this coming weekend be it two points scoring races or three, it will just hurt my championship position more if its 3 races that I have problems in.
Yes better preperation would have been nice but unaffordable at the moment hopefully with a chance to sort things before June 4th, but up to this point the worse I was expecting was 2 DNFs and loss of points from two races now I could be looking at a loss of points from 3 races,
After seeing Fil2s problems at Silverstone the other weekend I'm sure its something he is having thoughts about.
Still with enough stoppages at the first corner we may find they run out of time to run 3 races in all classes.
So how about
Race1 of 3 full points
Race2 of 3 half points rounded up to the next whole point
Race3 of 3 half points rounded up to the next whole point
With all finishers in races 2 & 3 getting a addition 2 points for finishing

Race1 of 2 full points
Race2 of 2 full points

Has anyone thought of Rally & Psychlist who arent going to make the first round - this load up the points against them?

I was quite happy with the idea of a non-points race at the end of the day, it'd be a fun way to end the first meeting.

The majority of folk are going to be emotionally shattered by that point, some will be driving home, and the prospect of another (unplanned for) race that they need to do may not be welcomed.

Cheers,

ali

anyone thought about me who's missing the second round?

all racing for no points at that meeting ?


:o:o:o:o:o:o

only kidding......... like it matters to me. ;)

yup, spoken to my better half -and he says its the best way to go Ali:)

Could the DSC put up prizes in kind?:puzzled:

C:)

Sound ok to me - As you say it's going to be a long weekend for some of us, emotionally and physically, especially novices. That way we can take or leave the last race as it's just for fun.

We might not want to bother on the Sunday - weather looks ok for Friday and Sat now but looks like thunderstorms for Sunday depending on which site you look at.

Nice of you to think of me dahlink but Domski and Nickski (and anyone else with a name that rhymes with "Slide off the track a lotski") are gonna need all the advantage they can get for when Rally and I are ready at Castle combe :devil: :smug:

ok guys just spoken to new era .... there will only be2 races for the desmo due bikes ... there are 3 races for the other 'new era' races but not for us.

provisional timetable looks like this ....

sat pm dd scrutineering
sat 5.15-5.30pm 10-15mins practice run (after sat races)
sun 9.00am untimed practice
sun 9.45am timed practice
sun 12.00pm first dd race
sun 3.30pm second dd race

all times are approximate especially sat as this is at the end of the day.

all races will only have 1 warm up lap (i've tried to make this 2 but if we get 2 everyone else will want 2 and new era don't want that so we only have 1)

the sot guys will need to get scrutineered early sat am and do their practice runs as directed. at the moment new era tell me that there are only 15 bikes signed up in the sot races (there will i believe be 3 races on sat) and 6 of these are dd bikes.

bit of advice from new era ... don't forget your acu licence and orange bib !

not long to go !

thanks for all that sounds good