Thursday, 26 March 2015

New HQ


It's only a week now till the Festival of Power at Santa Pod, and it's been a bit of a rush getting the bike back together and new parts tested. But it's very nearly done - the gearbox and clutch now seem ok, the engine is back in, new nitrous parts fitted, tested - found faulty, thrown away and replaced and finally flow tested, now all that's left really is to hope it all works.
After minimal deliberation we've changed our Pit lane HQ for 2015, we've sold the Gala marquee that has served us well for the last 6 years and acquired a Gala Pop up gazebo instead. The problem with the Marquee was the hassle putting it up - especially for just a 2 day event. Dead sturdy and leak proof but a 2 hour mission to assemble. In fact the only thing worse was having to take it down again!
The pop up should take some of the misery out of HQ assembly and hopefully will be just as strong.

The funnybike class has a great entry for this event, 14 bikes in total which is healthiest it's been for a long time. Even Comp bike has a 8 bike field which is unusual for the first round.
FUNNY BIKE
1     Gary Jones    Suzuki Hayabusa    1427cc
2     Stuart Crane     Suzuki GSX    1640cc
3     David Peters     Suzuki GSX     1327cc
4     Robert Brooks     Yellow Metal     1700cc
5     Dale Leeks     Suzuki GSX      1640cc
7     Harold Wolfenden Suzuki Hayabusa 1299cc
9     Thomas Joswig     Kosman Suzuki    1327cc
16     Dave Buttery     Suzuki GSX     1428cc
17     Pete Le Gros     Nitro Derringer 120ci
22     Phil Crossley     Suzuki GSX     1500cc
23     Nick Daniels     Suzuki GSX     1500cc
34     Eric Richard     Suzuki Hayabusa 1300cc
42     Allan Davies     Suzuki GSX     1500cc
50     Filippos Papafilippou     Suzuki  1570cc

COMPETITION BIKE
3     Kevin Osman     Suzuki Hayabusa 1300cc
4     Tony Clark     Suzuki GSX     1500cc
5     Paul Hambidge     Kawasaki ZX12R     1200cc
6     Dave Batcheler     Suzuki Bandit     1340cc
11     Eddy Smiley     Suzuki Hayabusa 1300cc
12     Sean Mills     Suzuki Hayabusa 1550cc
14     Mark Hope     Suzuki Hayabusa 1300cc
24     Mick Winyard     Suzuki GSXR1100    1216cc

Qualifying starts on Good Friday and will continue on Saturday, with eliminations on Sunday.



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