Just wanted to let youse all know after a certain person disappeared a couple of weeks ago, someone else has stepped up and will be at Lakeside on Thursday afternoon with his 1400 to enter Race Your Mates. It's only taken 8 years, but finally someone said "yeah, let's go Pete"
Don't know much about him other than he has a pair and he has a 1400 he is prepared to give a good floggin.
Can't wait.
Hope I don't embarrass myself.
It's good to see a 1400 rider with the balls to take you on Pete. Be safe the pair of you and enjoy the day. :onya:
You never know, but if you look hard enough you might even find Wally mingling with the spectators. :stir:
I assume there will be pictures :whistling:
GoPro footage off one of the bikes . . .
I wish I was here to bring happy news.
However, Kevin Davie (he says he raced in the nineties, if anyone knows that name I'd love to hear) showed up at the track as promised, pit crew in tow.
As you can see from the qualifying times below
he qualified 14th in 1:11.66
I qualified 6th in 1:07.33
In the first race we line up, me on row 2 he on row 5.
Warm up lap!
We fire off the line and scream down through turn one and roll off before turn 2.
In all the madness couple of people seem to forget this is the WARM UP lap and Kevin Davie comes under me though turn 2 and drives hard up the hill towards the "bus stop"
Coming out of the bus stop I see Kevin Davie sliding face down with the bike doing the same a few metres further on.
In a nutshell that was the end of the day for us.
He was totally unconscious and badly concussed when he came around.
His pit crew told me he was taken to Brisbane hospital with a couple of broken bones.
The bike didn't look too bad. Snapped handlebar, nasty scrape and dent in the tank - I didn't want to inspect too closely as I felt it was inappropriate and didn't want to seen as gloating.
On the upside - I did a PB in the second race 1:06.20.
Sorry if this is all a bit disappointing, it is for me.
I don't have any pics yet but I'll be sure to post anything that pops up online. The official photographer was there but there might not be anything of Kevin Davie.
As I believe there to be some chance of a Wally looking on from the guest list I would also like to post pics of the damage after fitting jack up blocks.
I really don't feel the difference of every suspension click or even the jack up blocks, but I can see lap times and as you can see the left engine casing, engine mount and side stand mount have copped it a bit and the right engine mount bolts were new that day.
Don't mean to have tickets on myself, but I'm proud of that.
Thank you for taking an interest.
I will be in Sydney next week. Going to Luddenham (a new track) on Saturday and then Wakefield on Monday 16th.
Pos Bike Sponsor Rider Bike Type Cap CL Laps Fastest...Lap Gap
1 17 Adrian Wilkinson Aprilia RSV4 R1 8 7 1:03.0526*
2 46 Josef Bull Suzuki GSXR R1 10 8 1:03.2538 0:00.2012
3 26 Brett Whitmore Suzuki GSXR1000 R1 9 7 1:06.2310 0:03.1784
4 34 Danny Serret Kawasaki ZX10R R2 8 3 1:06.3030 0:03.2504
5 23 Matthew Fryer Suzuki GSXR1000 R2 9 8 1:06.6829 0:03.6303
6 24 Peter Hope GSX 1400 R2 6 4 1:07.3330 0:04.2804
7 14 Ray Van Den Bosch Kawasaki ZX10 R3 10 9 1:07.4497 0:04.3971
8 22 Jason Anderson Suzuki GSXR R3 9 5 1:08.1372 0:05.0846
9 28 Joshua Skyring R3 8 7 1:10.0877 0:07.0351
10 29 Tristan Vercoe Honda CBR600RR R4 5 5 1:10.6923 0:07.6397
11 27 Luke Mathers Triumph Daytona R4 8 6 1:10.8449 0:07.7923
12 47 Robert Osborn Yamaha FZR400RR R4 8 4 1:11.4310 0:08.3784
13 32 Peter Kay R5 7 6 1:11.4911 0:08.4385
14 5 Kevin Davie Suzuki GSXR1400 R5 7 3 1:11.6687 0:08.6161
15 48 Nick Ansell Yamaha R3 R5 8 7 1:12.6072 0:09.5546
16 25 Ashley Skyring R6 5 4 1:12.8449 0:09.7923
17 31 John Williams R6 7 4 1:14.3610 0:11.3084
Well done ! :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:
The pics put you in a different league to us regular riders Peter! Awesome the way the 14 (in the right hands) can be up there competing with GSXR's & ZX10's. Well done that man!
The witness-marks tell a teuflisch-story :worshippy:
What tyres did you have on?
Looks like full slick race tyres in the pic, or could be just all the tread worn off the edges :lol:
Very impressive Pete. It might be time to lose the alternator & fit a modified cover.
Outstanding effort Pete :worshippy:
Sounds like you had a good day. Like others have said good to see the big girl can stir up the sporties :worshippy:
Often wondered what they pay to win the warm up :whatever:
Teuful, great write up and superb riding. Those lean angles are sure to be proud of. I probably wouldnt end up like Kevin Davie but id be a long way behind you. Thanks for sharing, top job.
Thank you all for your kind words. Much appreciated.
Yes Andre, it is devilish fun.
I was using Dunlop slicks.
It was a hot day and after some slides in race one I put on a soft, resulting in my PB I think.
I believe the jack up blocks helped too.
I had done low sevens before, but to lose a whole second to low sixes in one day tells me I had some extra help.
Kiwifruit, sadly no pay for warm up, but last week I won a drive in an ex V8 supercar at Queensland Raceway – so I'm looking forward to that.
The pics are up on the site and there is a good one of Kevin Davie, one of me and one of me chasing Ray on his newly acquired 2010 ZX10R. I managed to hang on and finish 0.4s behind him in race 2.
AND just so I get the exposure my ego needs I have reposted my fave 1400 pic of all.
So thank you all. Maybe see you around sometime.
Very nice and well done.
I like to think I have a pair, but no insurance (I'm poor white trash).
I can only push so hard. Such is life.
I still enjoy it out in the country by myself. :cheers:
Once again, well done.
Well done Teufel, good to see a proper mans bike out there instead of all those plastic covered crouch rockets :onya:
Ahh, the good old days :smiley-music002: