[Ray]

er, I think they use some sort of metal weights in the touring cars? Success ballast.

If you go this route you need to do some checks to make sure the weight is attached. The big difference between DD and BTCC is tha the cars are checked for technical compliance very regularly during the course of a meeting, especially relatively easy stuff like weight, ride height.

Did any DD bike end up in parc ferme after a race for a once over this year??

Maybe a bit OTT for a club series. Some motorsport has minimum wieghts that include the weight of the pilot, takes away the advantage of the slim Jims, to level that particular variable, still leave plenty of others to go at though.

As an interested spectator the racing looked competitive as is, good battles throughout the field. You can mess with the rules as much as you like but Talent on a good machine will always win through unless you create a very artificial handicap system.

Riders can get obsessed with the machine, get a well preped machine there or thereabouts and then it's the rider that needs the development.

Don't beat yourself before the meeting starts with this their bikes better than mine crap.

Ray.

[Edited on 14-12-2005 by Ray]