Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Can you do the DD double - 583/620?

[Chris Wood]

Any thoughts.....

Can you do both? Logisticaly, timings, if your bringing one bike, not too much more to bring another? Share spares etc..

Or can you enter the 620 class on a 583? and just run one bike....

Discuss..

[domski]

I can see this one getting juicy

[Rattler]

Unlikely, I can't see qualifying being done together, races next to each other etc, etc....

You'd get a great advantage if you can warm your tyres before going into the next race or next qualifying, etc, etc....

Besides, by the sounds of it, there'll be a full grid for each and you're unlikely to get a spot on both.

Tim

[ali]

Current theory would indicate that, should we acheive a two grid status, there could well be a gap between the races to allow:

a) racers to watch their counterparts in the other series
b) racers with sufficient funds to partake in both series

Logisitcally you could expect double the majority of items, servicing, tyres, oils, fairings (for those who find the lure of gravity overwhelming), etc.

You would, of course, need to pay for both classes (£95+£50; 2005 fees) as well, and hope that you don't injure yourself in the first free practise of the first round thereby putting yourself out of racing for the season having re-mortgaged your house, sold your children, and spent untold nights around the back of kings cross earning the money to support your filthy habit.

Having considered this at length, I can conclude that the best option woudl be to participate in one series and share a bike in t'other. This would allow focus in the preferred series and experimentation in the 'shared' series, more track time, but not so much that you fall into a coma on crossing the line, more expense, but not so much that you can't turn down the last client of the night.....

Yours,

Ali

ps: Remind me not to write while listening to University Challenge....

[Chris Wood]

Sounds the same as doing SOT and DD at rounds this year...can't be that much different?

I've shared a bike this year and it's been good, able to enjoy being at rounds and miss a round without stress, as long as you don't give a sh*t about championship standings? Half the cost too....

If you own a race prepped 674,like us...it's not worth much on the market may as well keep it as a spare bike, and use in 583 class? find a 620ie for the expensive class.

[domski]

Originally posted by Chris Wood
If you own a race prepped 674,like us...it's not worth much on the market may as well keep it as a spare bike, and use in 583 class?

...after making it a 583 again, of course :P

[Rattler]

Right - I'm up for both then!!!!

The 583 round would be great practice for the 620 - or the other way round!!!

Anyone know of a cheap 583 going anywhere ?

[domski]

Do you think the 583 guys will appreciate the more afluent members using their race as a practice session? Likewise anyone doing 620 for 'practice'.

I may be wrong, but I would have thought that 583 riders will be doing that series because they can't afford the £5000+ it takes for the 620 class.

Those who can afford it now have an advantage over those who cannot.

If all I could afford was the 583 series and was putting 100% into it, I'd be severely pi$$ed off if I knew half the 620 lads were using it for 'practice' for their race.

I personally think you should commit to ONE Desmo Due championship, and if you want extra practice - then gate crash another series, or do more trackdays - if you can afford a second bike.

Spirit of the series anyone?

I know this is a DSC race series, but let's not get carried away.

Pick your weapon and go for it.

I haven't decided what I'm doing yet (748 or 996 included!) but even if I could afford it, I would do one or the other and concentrate on that.

[Chris Wood]

I didn't mean to infer 'practice' in any class...I'm suggesting the best way to learn racing is to race....and having an option to 'race' in each class as an equal competitor to everyone else.

I see the logistics costing the same, the only additional costs being running another bike in another series.

Not bad value I think...

[ali]

I don't really see too much of an issue with entering both (you can enter every race in a meet if you want!), but I'd like to see those NOT entering the other series given priority over those entering both. If the grids get full for next year then everyone should have to nominate a 1st choice and a 2nd second choice or similar.

Tricky.