Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Just for discussion (rain riders ?).

[Shaggyboy]

Originally Posted by milesaway

as we're diversifying into knitting maybe we could knit some tyre cosies and use them instead of warmers

It's a dangerous sport this knitting, them needles can do some damage make sure you wear eye protectors

[badgerpilot]

Just to lob my 2 penneth in.
Keep the rules as they are and well done to those who don't mind the watery stuff, personally I detest the rain and the idea of forking out £200+ of my own hard-earned to do something I don't like seems silly. Going out on track in the wet isn't racing for me, it's pottering round to maybe grab a couple of championship points. For me, the decision to enter on the day is well worth the extra £20 as I'd rather waste that than the full entry fee hating my track time, but this is purely a personal decision.
To have Hottrax make the call on whether we go out seems logical but as soon as time starts to get tight and the track is slightly moist you can guarantee we'll get scrubbed because to be totally honest I don't feel we are taken particularly seriously. The hope of any refund is somewhere between Bob and no and once they have over 6 grand (30 riders at £200+) in their bank we are just a hinderance to them so scrubbing our race on 'safety' reasons is just easy money.

On another point, can someone tell the Motors TV commentator the difference between A and B classes, white or yellow number boards aint rocket science is it??






All opinions in this post are purely those of the author, but cos it's me it makes them all correct.

[antonye]

On the subject of the TV coverage, Barry Nutley will be the new commentator - he used to commentate on BSB for ITV as well as being an ex-racer himself.

[numbskull]

But can he distinguish between yellow and white?

[Spjallen]

He's great, gets well excited!!

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by numbskull

But can he distinguish between yellow and white?

Still the question remains...

[bally71]

Originally Posted by badgerpilot

Just to lob my 2 penneth in.
Keep the rules as they are and well done to those who don't mind the watery stuff, personally I detest the rain and the idea of forking out £200+ of my own hard-earned to do something I don't like seems silly. Going out on track in the wet isn't racing for me, it's pottering round to maybe grab a couple of championship points. For me, the decision to enter on the day is well worth the extra £20 as I'd rather waste that than the full entry fee hating my track time, but this is purely a personal decision.
To have Hottrax make the call on whether we go out seems logical but as soon as time starts to get tight and the track is slightly moist you can guarantee we'll get scrubbed because to be totally honest I don't feel we are taken particularly seriously. The hope of any refund is somewhere between Bob and no and once they have over 6 grand (30 riders at £200+) in their bank we are just a hinderance to them so scrubbing our race on 'safety' reasons is just easy money.

+1 to that .. didn't know you could enter on the day

[bradders]

So far this year, my experience of Hottrax is they give us as much slack as anyone else. Sure we get the novice group on test days, but that's because a few moaned about being with the axe murders (rightly for a couple as they were punted off!!) so who else can they put us with?

I'm sure it's always been in their gift to pull races for poor conditions, maybe they just don't appreciate the difference between our tyres and wets. From what I hear, it was only the sat race at Anglesey that was the issue, and we had Snetterton last year, so possibly he answer is to help them understand the line between saf and not. And if he decision is made agree we won't chuck dummies

[mat2hew]

Hi chaps,

I have to say I've always liked the Dunlops in wet or dry, and I've always considered myself a pretty good wet weather rider and always enjoyed the challenge of 'weather'.

with regard to my accident,,, did I take the standing/running water too fast?,,,,, Maybe,,,, if I'd have backed off a bit more maybe it wouldn't have happened,, I don't think I did anything particularly wrong, I didn't do anything I hadn't done on every other lap,,, I did feel that I was catching Andy 'Lightning' Challis and was obviously pushing to catch up, not wanting him to get even further ahead in the championship.

Basically,,, My fault,,, an error in judgement,

I'd not had any problems at all up to that moment, and it was just a small slide in exactly the wrong second.

with Hind sight ,,,, If the race was cancelled I wouldn't have been happy, But, Not hurt now.

I thought I could win that race and would have said "yep lets race" if I was asked before hand.

I dunno what the answer to all these questions is,,, sorry chaps.

Matt.

[Spjallen]

The rain is a lot worse here at Oulton than our last race the wind is forecast to get up too. Hopefully the lessons from anglesey have been hoisted on board. I love the wet but not sure if this race weekend will be on - for any riders, wets or no wets.