Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Who isn't going to Donington?

[NBs996]

the responses on the ne message board seem fairly happy to try the new format, and I too reckon it will work better.
ok, so there's been a few negative scenarios posed by some of us in dd, but there's -ve's for any format.

The only question I'd raise is value for money - is it worth spending £130 + costs on only 2 sessions on track? No, but it it worth spending the same money for 3 shorter sessions? Again, no. You want track time for your £ then do track days.

For me, selflessly, the short races are not good. My first 2 laps are traditionally rubbish, then there's not enough time to get back in the game. Longer races might give me a better chance.
Then there's qualifying - with 15 minutes instead of 10, we're not likely to get another scenario like the superpole of oulton.

I'm looking forward to it.

[ericthered40]

So were all boys then and so is every rider in BSB and WSB are they. I thought I entered a club race series for novices not Moto GP? I think we have had the laps reduced buy Two in each race already at the beginning of the year.

I actually think I personally will be better off in a Twelve laper (although I did say I was old and unfit somewhere I am in fact young and fit as a butchers dog) In most races my lap times improve throughout the race and I always feel like the race has ended to soon. I have entered SV at Donnington so will be having Two twelve lapers and Two lots of Quolifying. I will be doing the track day on Saturday as well. This is not because I am loaded but because Like Oulton last month I have never ridden Donnington and respect my own safety and the safety of the other riders. My concern is for the guy that may bin it in Qualifying or in the race and come away with a large bill and nothing to show for it in the series. I think that's the sort of weekend that can can leave a rider really wondering if it's all worth it, wear as that same rider can have a disaster in the first race and then still end their day on a high in the second. There is no argument against this fact as I have seen it with my own eyes at nearly every round of the series so far. I have seen the lows and the highs.
As a novice learning to race, the importance of Qualifying and starts in the sprint race format IS learning to race. It would have been nice to have had the Two Eight lap races we first expected.

I will be riding at Donnington because I have always wanted to and am financially able to. I am not convinced that the ONE CHANCE BIG BOYS BOOLOXS is for the novice racer on a very hard earned budget in the long run though.

[weeksy2]

Originally Posted by ericthered40

I will be riding at Donnington because I have always wanted to and am financially able to. I am not convinced that the ONE CHANCE BIG BOYS BOOLOXS is for the novice racer on a very hard earned budget in the long run though.

There's not that many novices in your classes these days fella... most people are now on at least 10 sigs....

Everyone out there has a hard earned budget.. the class or experience has little to do with that.

[ericthered40]

I think you'll find that the majority are still Tango or are you talking about 620 only. Are the 583s still getting Two races then? I think the future of DD will depend on a steady flow of new Tangos.

Originally Posted by ericthered40

I think you'll find that the majority are still Tango or are you talking about 620 only. Are the 583s still getting Two races then? I think the future of DD will depend on a steady flow of new Tangos.

I thought all that orangey glow in the DD paddock was the MotoGP spray on tan look ????

[Dominic Clegg]

im not sure weather two race or one long race is best this what i voted to do one long race at snetterton. just mean like im going to find out early what the formate like at donington.

p.s. what have the MT found out from new era iv been trying to ring them for ages and havent got through this is the 4th day now

and new era used the evelope i sent them to send me my race tickets etc to send me that letter does this mean that they will have to find there own stamp to send me my tickets now.

[ericthered40]

From were I sit on the grid the glow is positively Caribbean. There are Two lines of pasty non tanned devils without bibs to chase though. Whenever I look behind me though there is a sea of sunbed abusers, lodes of um.

Originally Posted by ericthered40

From were I sit on the grid the glow is positively Caribbean. There are Two lines of pasty non tanned devils without bibs to chase though. Whenever I look behind me though there is a sea of sunbed abusers, lodes of um.

so the fast boys are racing in the "UK Anaemics Trophy Class" and the boys behind are in the "Oompah Loompah Challengers Trophy" ??? or is it the "DD (David Dickinson) Novice Cup" ????

[skidlids]

Woopee 12 laps in last years Donington conditions on road tyres and a combined grid. Now that sounds like fun on a 583 just queue up in the spray behind the 620s or skittle them as you try diving underneath them into the corner off the racing line.
At least all the other classes have wets if it rains

I'm still waiting to hear from MT members if its going to be one race or two and I need to know in the next couple of days

[weeksy2]

Kev, i can see why you're negative on this mate, i really can, being a 583 rider this helps you no way at all.

But you have to think of the bigger picture for NE as an organisation. They want to show that Superclub is indeed what it sounds like, the step up from Club. To do that they have to show a certain something over and above CLub.

Unfortunately DD have been given/chosen to race at both Club and Superclub meetings, maybe it would be an idea to run next season as Club rather than at Superclub, maybe that would help DD ?

Or the other solution could be to had the series over to NE and give them the whole say in it ? (DOes Bushell REALLY want to run this series after all his hard work is thrown in his face time and time again ?)

OR maybe after some of the posts calling Jim a fat ****er or whatever it is, you won't even have a club you can run in next season ? lets face it, if i was Jim Parker and someone made comments like that on a public/private board, would i really want them in my series...


Sometimes lads, you need to step back and see you're a part of a bigger picture, not the centre piece of it.

Think before you reply please lads, i didn't write this on a whim.