Oran Park Rideday photos

Hi again. There are about 40 odd photos from this day at: http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x116/zoltanp1967/?albumview=slideshow

Vanessa wasn't there to take photos of everyone, just our gang, but managed to get some pics of a fair other numbers. If you wish, feel free to download a copy and even email her at vanessa@hourglassphotography.com.au if you wish to get some large format pics printed off in pro finish. Butler, we're charging you double ...

enjoy.
Zoltan

Rideday, Oran park, Jan 9th 2010

I'll update more later, but for now: Awesome day, hot as hell, had bro-in law Glenn and mate Rick (ex-FZ750-not-going-yet) also riding my Yzf in different groups. Thanks to Steve Butler we stuck some almost new Bridgie slicks on and the bike behaved very well and held up to many modern machines, other than the main straight at times... we'll work on that this year hopefully with more powere one way or another.

Thanks to James n Vinne, Mark N Tony and all other flagging on such a hot day ...

James actually crashed right behind me when his modern radial front Brembo master cylinder failed... broke the 6 hour 3-rd place getter bike's frame. ouch. no one got rushed to hospital that day, which was awesome, especially as i was also involved in being on medical assist stand-by in the morning...

There were some other retro bikes, like 2 x fzr400s, one with a 600 engine. It's of interest that after 17 years of riding at Oran, I was still improving my lines a little. To no benefit, seeing this was the last rideday there for me ...

6-Hour Support races, ORAN PARK RACEWAY

Thanks to Hourglass Photography and Campbelltown Motorcycles 2009 was celebrated by entering the Retro support races to the BELRAY Oils 6 HOUR, in which perseverence paid off with a 3rd place trophy.

PICTURES: click here to see them.
click here for results of the 6 Hour Races.
Heat results:HEAT 1: 1st-Steven Green zxr750, 2nd-Steve Butler FZR1000, 3rd-Ivan Hoey Bikewreck YZF750,
HEAT 2: 1st-Ivan Hoey Bikewreck YZF750, 2nd-Steven Green zxr750, 3rd-John Tween Bikewreck YZF750,
HEAT 3: 1st- David Gilyeat ZXR750, 2nd- John Tween Bikewreck YZF750, 3rd Steve Butler FZR1000

A no-start from Steve in one race + a dual-crash ahead of me in race 3 left me in the points! As the old folk always say, you've gotta be in it to win it! All crashers were OK too.

Friday's practice was extreme: the hottest day on record for ages, with temepratures of 45C, an extreme afternoon storm with me only on the track. Even the marshals were hiding! The old lighting tower got blown down even! This was actually the highlight of the weekend for me really, as I have never been in weather so severe! I was totally charged riding at walking pace through horizontal wind and gusting rain. I probably should have pulled in under the bridge, but it became a man-vs-wild thing! It was really something out of stormchasers on TV!

Saturday saw me overestimate some tyres which started sliding around at the back quite badly. I just couldn't get drive out of corners, resulting in 5ths, but a 3rd trophy as mentioned previously. It was a lot of fun though, sliding in the dry as if it was in the wet, and getting the nod and claps from lots of marshals. Yogi-Darren-Bear was quite excited to see sliding entries and exits under the bridge ...

OVERALL RESULTS: Congrats to John Tween for winning overall on his Bikewreck YZF750, to Ashley Whitehead on his 900 Fireblade for 2nd, with me on my yzf750 taking home the 3rd place.