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[domski]

Originally Posted by phil_h

Hmm ... perhaps I should set up the spare dd750 as a wet bike

I'll remind Chass to buy another cup.

How about a polystyrene one next time?

[phil_h]

Originally Posted by domski

I'll remind Chass to buy another cup.

How about a polystyrene one next time?

no no no
I'd quite like a matched set actually

[skidlids]

racing with NG in Minitwins means sharing the grid with SoT, which can be a bit hair raising when you get lapped by the leaders on the circuits with roughly a minute lap times.
Its easier to keep out of there way if you have rubber that allows you to lap a bit faster.
Last weekend at Pembrey every session I did on the Saturday required full wets. Sunday morning practice saw the track with a drying line so I took the Class A DD bike out on Diablos and had a couple of big slides exiting the Old Hairpin and Spitfires. I later took it out in the Qualifying race on the same tyres and as the track was dry it did OK.
For the final race on Sunday I put Super Corsas on the Minitwin and used tyre warmers, I spent all race swapping places with Roberto Benini (originally signed for Class A at the begining of the season) on his 996 on slicks, didn't help the lap times but was fun.
For Pembrey I had
Super corsas for the Dry
Diablos as a form of inters
Full wets (used at every MT meeting I have taken part in this year)

[paynep]

I've been adding up the number of laps and miles that I've got out of my Diablos this year so far:
I reckon on having done 6 race meetings and 6 trackdays giving a total of 350 laps or 650-ish miles.
They look and seem fine so I'll probably leave them on for Cadwell to finish the year off....