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[phillc]

I raced in the SV class at Snetterton on Saturday. Was in with the Formula 400s and Honda Hornets.

When I say raced, I was out on track with my 583 at least........... Oh, I didn't quite come dead last either. Really I just used these two races, and extra qualifying, as track learning sessions because this was my first time at Snett.

Would I do it again? Only if I didn't know the track. Maybe it'd be worth trying at Cadwell where there aren't huge straights to lose out to the more powerful bikes on. That's not saying I wouldn't come second last again........

[domski]

You can enter the SV race as Phill says (some of us have got trophies in that this season too). There has only been 1 SV turn up, he fell off at Donny and beat me twice at Snett (typical!). Eric & Ali won a race each at Oulton I think?

It's worth doing at least one SV race @ £25 as you get the extra qualifying session as well.

So you could do DD, SV and SoT for £160-£170 (not checked Cadwell entry fee) and get 3 qualifying sessions and 4 races (1 each of SV & SoT). That's better value isn't it.



Oh, I wouldn't bother with wets, coz you'll still get your arse kicked either way. Unless you were feeling flush

[phil_h]

Originally Posted by domski

You can enter the SV race as Phill says (some of us have got trophies in that this season too).

There has only been 1 SV turn up, he fell off at Donny and beat me twice at Snett (typical!). Eric & Ali won a race each at Oulton I think?

It's worth doing at least one SV race @ £25 as you get the extra qualifying session as well.

So you could do DD, SV and SoT for £160-£170 (not checked Cadwell entry fee) and get 3 qualifying sessions and 4 races (1 each of SV & SoT). That's better value isn't it.



Oh, I wouldn't bother with wets, coz you'll still get your arse kicked either way. Unless you were feeling flush

I found the track time at dony and snet really useful as you get your head in gear far better if you have some untimed practice as well
I managed to harry the tail enders as they braked too much into the corners, and even had a passing game with one bloke at snet.
In the wet at dony it was a bit more worrying tho cos they all had better rubber than me
As dom says £25 for a race + qualy is great value - and at snet it allowed me to see if I could better my dd qualy times - which I did, and that gave me a lot more confidence for our race, leading to my best ever dd result.

[phil_h]

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

[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....

[twpd]

Originally Posted by paynep

Warmers for wets? Are you sure?

Yes. You need warmers.

[andys 900ss]

Cant fault the Diablo's for suiting the 600 bikes. Both my sets (one for trackdays and one for racing) are second hand and I've given them a fair amount of stick too and they still good to use!!!

Well done RC or whoever came up with the idea.

I have tried warmers on a number of occasions, but they dont seem to make much difference, just really in the head for confidence on a track I dont know to get upto speed asap.

Andy