UK Desmo Owners Club Trackday - Ducatis on Track at Brands Hatch - Tues 27th August
 

UK Desmo Owners Club Trackday - Ducatis on Track at Brands Hatch!

Brands Hatch is hosting the first official UK Desmo Owners Club trackday, on Tuesday 27th August 2013.

The trackday will be run by MSV Trackdays and hosted by all four Desmo Owners Clubs, the officially
recognised Ducati clubs in the UK. The Clubs have teamed up to provide Ducati owners with the chance
to take their bikes onto the legendary Brands Hatch circuit for the day.

The day will be divided into 4 groups covering novice (first-time) trackday riders, intermediate riders,
fast riders and an additional ACU licence group which will be timed. This ensures that everyone will be
able to ride in the group they feel most comfortable with and ensure safety for all riders. Each session
will be 15 minutes, with a total of seven sessions on the day.

The cost of the day is £135 per rider, but discounts are available to members of the Clubs* and can be
booked direct with MSV on 0843 453 3000 or through the website at http://www.msvtrackdays.com/desmo

Spectators are welcome to join the day, and entry is free. The day will also host Club stands, displays
and trade stands. Tyre services and a dyno will also be present to provide support on the day for riders.**

For more details and information on discounts for Club members, contact your club:

Ducati Owners Club GB - http://www.docgb.org/
Ducati Sporting Club UK - http://www.ducatisportingclub.com/
Scottish Ducati Club - http://www.scottishducaticlub.org/
UK Monster Owners Club - http://www.ukmonster.co.uk/


* Discount of 10% available to registered DOC members; cost £121.50 per rider. Contact your Club Rep to obtain your personal discount code.

** stands and services to be confirmed

Confirmed Support Services available on the Day

Track-Pro
On-site services include suspension adjustment and maintenance, tyre fitting, brake servicing and pad fitting, and set-up advice. For further information please call Simon Green on 07876637551 or visit www.track-pro.co.uk


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Just a reminder to DSC Members - please see the DSC Topics section on how to get your personal discount code for use when booking.

What's wrong with people.

They spend all year saying we should have a track day, and then don't book a place on it when there is one???

Perhaps we shouldn't have one next year then.

My place was booked weeks ago.

It is looking very likely as we have now had trackdays for 3 years running with less than 50 people on them!

Only two weeks to go to this event!

Make sure you get booked on - note that you will only get the discount if you use telephone booking line instead of online.

Timetable

07.30 Registration
08.30 Riders Briefing
09.00 Circuit Opens
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Circuit reopens
17.00 Circuit closes

Noise Limit for this event

105 dB(A)


More information and consent forms here:
http://www.clubmsv.com/bike-home/bik...roduction.aspx

Have to agree with Neal, come on guys especially fellow DDers chance for some more practice before the 9th

Due to the low take-up of the ACU (Timed) group, this will now be merged into the Fast group, making this a 3-session trackday.

Apologies to anyone who had booked into the ACU group but unfortunately MSV were not willing to run that session with just 5 bikes in it!

This does mean that everyone will now get the usual 20 minute sessions instead of the planned 15 minute sessions, so an increase of 35 minutes of track time over the day.

If you have booked into the ACU group and have an issue with this, please call MSV direct on 0843 453 3000 to discuss your options.

Even I've booked on it!
I'm Captain slow!

Am booked in with my Aprillia RSV now it's open to all makes, I can't risk throwing my 748 down the road I'm afraid, still it is Italian :) See you all there

I would just like to say what a great day I had yesterday. The weather was near perfect. Thanks to Antony, Andy and Neil for the share of their tea and coffee and company.
This is only my second track day and I would advise anyone who has never done one and is thinking of doing one, to do a club one. The social side of it being an important part of it for me.
I apologise to anyone in the Novice group that I may have held up and the Novice group is where I think I'll stay but I had fun.

I'd second that - a great day out. Although I was in pit 9 - serves me right for getting there early. Actually I camped so was in the pits by 7am! Watching the sun go down over Brands Hatch, with a glass of dandelion and burdock in my hand, was a rare treat. Got up early, changed my brake pads, put the fairing back on, gave it a kiss etc...

I was on the little 620 Ducati, red and black fairing, underseat exhaust. Black and blue wolf leathers and riding around in the novice group. I was lapping at about 1.18 according to the other half which for me, is a new lap record. So i'm chuffed. David in Hampshire sets himself a new lap record. Simple things in life :p I seem to remember a 996 out there too... Did anyone catch my green moment?

Just a thought, any chance that all the club gather in the same area of the pits next time? I'm sure you can book them just like Parkinsons did. And when exactly is 'next time'? And a T shirt - must get a matching Ducati T shirt. What a tart I am.

Thanks all

David

Hi David, didn't get to meet you but was part of a discussion early in the day about who was on the DD bike. You've got the bike now come do some racing with the rest of us, best fun you'll ever have. :D

Hi all,

I'm sorry that I didn't manage to link up any of the names on the forum with faces on Tuesday, but what a great day out! I'd be keen next time around to be better organised and figure out in advance which garage you were all going to be in to get to know everyone a bit better.

Anyone else as impressed as I was with the Multistrada running in Intermediates? I rode one for a week in Italy last year and loved it, and seeing it on the track just reinforced to me what a great all rounder it is.

I was on the solitary Panigale running in the Novice group, parked in garage 29.

Ian

Racing? Do you have a 'fat knacker' class? Not the bike - me! Wouldn't mine and actually, it was very interesting to do a track day with similar types of, and powered, bikes. Actually, I wasn't that bad! Over took a few - the usual suspects - and got beaten on the straights plenty of times too. But yeah, it was better than being in a novice class on an open track day at Donington. Why they had obviously good riders on R1's in the novice group is beyond me.

Would i need an ACU licence to race?

David

Called class B so you'red be joining me :D Yes you would need ACU licence but easy enough to get.

A-ha! Bike is a 620 with fuel injection so doesn't that make it a class A?

Glad everyone had a good and safe day.

Fully reports very welcome but if detailed (eg with photo's) perhaps check with Antony as he's always after articles for the club magazine - make yourself famous! :D

As for T-shirts David, I hope they will have DSC written on ;)

Maybe next time - Cheers - Frank

Antonye - you getting this?

So where is my T shirt and when's the next day? Got some good photo's of me if you need something to write about.

David

If you write up your experience and send it to pronto@ducatisportingclub.com along with some pics, if it gets published in the magazine you'll get a t-shirt!

I was the bloke on the Awesome Ducati...... (the Ducati with awesome on the side..... #72)

all Ducati's are awesome.

Jeasus... the things i'll do for a T shirt!

David

Couple of go pro vids from the day some of you may see yourselves novice group and I was on the Aprilia RSV Mille

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koy3q...&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOx9FvkkN24

Nice vids - looks like you had fun-in-the-sun!

Bike sounds good too but its been a long time since I saw clutch fluid THAT filthy - LOL