Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Plum Pudding races - Boxing Day, Mallory

[skidlids]

Chris what time do I need to get there to get a parking space where you do and how do you get access to that area

[chris.p]

Originally Posted by skidlids

Chris what time do I need to get there to get a parking space where you do and how do you get access to that area

Early , by 10am at the very latest, just drive down past the main car parks & follow the mud track around Gerrards.




Chris

[Grib]

We should be there for a couple of hours to watch

[twpd]

Cool. I might bump into you then - all depends how hung over I am.

[skidlids]

Well done to Stuart Smith and Kieran Morris from Mad Cow racing for representing DD at the Plum Pudding, both were out on their 600 Monsters in among the Powerbikes and formula 600s. Considering the bikes they were up agianst both did quite well.

Met up with Chris P. as planned on the outside of Edwinas, wandered over to the paddock to find my mate Rob from NG club, sadly he was on a GSXR600 as he had left his 748R at home as it broke a crank a while back and is now having a 996 engine fitted ready for next year.

Bumbed into a few other racers I know that were there spectating two of which have ordered 1098s and will be racing them in National Superstocks, another Ex Ducati SoT racer is also contemplating getting a 1098 and possibly making a return to racing.

One thing is for sure the 1098 certainly has caused a lot of interest in racing Ducati superbikes again

[chris.p]

Great bike racing as the weather was mild, but the caterhams tried to spoil the day by dumping oil from Gerrards to Lake Esses, bit of a hold up but the bikes made up for it.

Met up with Skids, who kindley moved his car over so I could get in at Edwina`s, Cheers.


Well done to the "Mad Cow" DD race team for some entertaining moments on the first lap of there second race, trying to take each other out, I know you must beat your team mate, but not by trying to punt him off


Well done to Dan Hegerty, did well to beat Pete Baker & win his races on an R1, well done.



Chris

[spares geezer]

Not sure what went wrong there, Kieren was drawn 12th on the grid and I was drawn as 23rd so how I got near him I've no idea but I just couldn't let the chance of getting past him once go by (Kieran is a lot quicker than me and last time I got past him on my S4 at Donington I highsided it 2 laps later!).

We enjoyed ourselves but having stayed on for 1 practice & 2 races when many didn't we decided to call it a day rather than risk taking one or both bikes home in a biscuit tin.

Being up against 150bhp+ GSXR's etc was a bit of a shock on our 50bhp Ducati's but Keiran got 3 or 4 rice burners behind him in both races and I managed to get the better of a Honda Cornet in the second....roll on 2007!

Stuart

[WeeJohnyB]

I'll race the Plum one year...wanted to go and watch, but a) up a ladder decorating and b) totally forgot....begger....would have been a nice break.

Kev...I'm convinced Ducati UK have missed a trick...they should have been working on a package to run a 1098 series with one of the big clubs next year, I'm sure they would have got a decent grid.

WeeJohnyB