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[skidlids]

Looking at the Donington Meeting, it looks like (and I may be wrong here) all bikes and riders will be Scrutineered on Saturday morning and then do 3-laps of free practice to quallify as per ACU rules.
That'll leave us with our timed practice and two races, It would not suprise me if at least the timed practice was on the Saturday if not race 1, a bit like the Castle Combe Grand National meetings we have done in the past.

Looking at the regs there is at least 13 races, but more like 14 or 15 (does race M6 really include Open, 600s 1000s and sidecars and it says 2 races per class, so a bit confusing) and something along the lines of 13 practice sessions (timed and untimed), so how they spread them out will be a mystery until the time table is announced

[Rattler]

Originally Posted by skidlids

Looking at the Donington Meeting, it looks like (and I may be wrong here) all bikes and riders will be Scrutineered on Saturday morning and then do 3-laps of free practice to quallify as per ACU rules.
That'll leave us with our timed practice and two races, It would not suprise me if at least the timed practice was on the Saturday if not race 1, a bit like the Castle Combe Grand National meetings we have done in the past.

Looking at the regs there is at least 13 races, but more like 14 or 15 (does race M6 really include Open, 600s 1000s and sidecars and it says 2 races per class, so a bit confusing) and something along the lines of 13 practice sessions (timed and untimed), so how they spread them out will be a mystery until the time table is announced

The details are not well written and unclear, can we get official qualification of this? Who are the rider's reps?

[Scooter916]

Originally Posted by Rattler

The details are not well written and unclear, can we get official qualification of this? Who are the rider's reps?

Yup agreed I though I was the only one that thought it was a bit twonk.

[injected]

Completely agree. Clear as mud. For an entity supposedly dedicated to bringing novices into the sport, NE certainly does a good job of making it difficult for novices to understand what's going on!

[Jolley]

Ahhh... that makes me feel better. I couldn't work out what was going on either, but put it down to it being the first race I had ever entered!! I just figured I would turn up on Sat and see what happened!

[Rattler]

In fairness, the forms are usually a lot clearer, take a look at the Snett entry form as an example. The Donny round seems a bit "special", and maybe the form was hastily put together, eitherway it would help to know the timings at least and whether we can enter more than one class, as there are no "additional races" costs listed either. Seems Skids has it about right, but confirmation would be good.

Tim

[skidlids]

as the Donington meeting is a European Open Competition organised by New Era to hold the 6 Nations championship, its hardly your normal NE club meeting and as such not really focused on Novice Club racers.

Just look at the team the Irish are putting out
http://www.mcui-uc.org.uk/modules.ph...article&sid=75

As well as the Moto Six Match races there are also two ACU Championship events and then the rest are basically guest classes and as such are there just to make up the numbers.

Still it will hopefully be my first time racing on the full GP circuit and probably the last as its all due to change with F1 going there.

As for additional races, I can't see it happening at this meeting, well not in the normal discounted manner. Dallas is also thinking of entering the Pro-bike as there is no SoT but it will probably cost him a futher £175, my advice to him was save the money and enter other classes at the normal club meets

[Dominic Clegg]

looks like we crashed the new era web site

[Imola Duke]

Am I right in thinking that we have a mixed grid ?
Looking at the entrie for donny
If so... ? only 40 riders on the grid!!!

Hi Trudi Senna