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Originally posted by WeeJohnyB
Trust me, you want it to be dry. Donington is a complete nightmare in the wet, so much so, that Loris has said he's not coming back unless they resurface it.
The last race meeting I did there was carnage, bikes going down everywhere. I went out on my CB5 with a wet front and road rear as I didn't have a wet rear at the time. The back was sliding at every corner and bikes were going down all around me, so I decided my health was more valuable than some points and retired after a few laps.
I would not like to be racing at Donny in the wet on road tyres. You might recall I said this at the AGM when you were all deciding on the tyre rules - I said wets for safety reasons. I REALLY hope I'm proved wrong and if it is wet, the Diablos work well and you all get round safely.
What will be more dangerous, is qualifying - has anyone considered that SOT and CB5's will all be on full wets? DD will be moving chicanes to the SOT and probably the Hornets and it will even up the CB5's lack of power a bit. Just a thought.
I'm hoping for a dry track, I may not even bother racing if it's wet, I'm going to Mondello Park for a few days straight after the last race.
WeeJohnyB |
See - told you it were slippy
Re the Diablos and how they behaved at Donny in the wet - I was there in March - poured down and my tyres were brand new. I have to say that despite the odds being stacked against them they did handle and stick very very well. My biggest problems were the esses the loop and coming back onto start finish straight. That seems to be where it was slippiest.
However I am not as fast as you guys and we're not doing the loop, but I don't have too many worries on the tyre front regardless of the conditions.
What concerns me is the no practice and as you rightly point out - everyone else being on warmers and maybe wets and only 10 mins to qualify.