2010 Nov Wakefield Park, 3rd in class and 3rd in 1hour race!

What a weekend! After getting hit at eastern creek from the outside by a maniacal modern desperate to not be beaten by a Retro, I  found the exhaust had been broken! Off to the exhaust place near work and $20 later it's fixed. Ready to go!

For a change, I was packed and ready 24 hours early so I took it all to work so I could leave from there.

Saturday am was tender steps on the bike, getting the feel for it seeing it had not been raced here. It was awesome! Everything worked well all weekend. Still had the same old dunlops on from the Creek, and they were still gripping well at my pace.

Brett Clarke and Nigel Taylor were at the head of the pack about 8 seconds ahead, but hey, they're both A graders on superduper superbikes.

Between races 1-4 I finished I got 3rd in class. My racing got better and better as I got more and more familiar with the bike. It was a pleasure to ride even though it's quite underpowered, being an almost toally stock motor still with the original type twin muffler road exhaust. Worked well apparently a couple of times as people couldn't hear me at their heels and didn't open the gap allowing me to sneak in under or around them.

There are videos available for your viewinig please on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/zoltanp1967?feature=mhum

The 1 hour race was awesome! I forgot to set the camera up for the Le-Mans start, and pressed the start button on about lap 3 I think. There's some good dicing, with my positions moving between 7th to 11th and back to 5th, before handing over to Stewar Lomax. Stu normally rides a 95 YZF750 and got 2nd in class for the day in the heat races. He enjoyed the FZ although it is very different from his superbike spec yzf. He got within half a second of my time on it, not bad on a strange bike he didn't want to crash.

There was even a safety car slowing progress for a few laps for Stu when one of the riders fell off and needed to be checked. He was fine.

The other chaps from Team Cooranbong had various results: Martin on the T750 went better and better, and only ran off once. However Graham's bike played up with a fuel supply problem and he spend most of the weekend working on it. Had it mostly sorted by the last races.

Again Thanks for the support from Vanessa's Hourglass Photography, PIRTEK NEWCASTLE / HUNTER and the warmers from Emtek worked well.

The next race isn't on for a couple of months, I'll post something on the RetroRacing website.