Eastern Creek, Retro vs moderns = 3rd place trophy!

Wow! after months of tinkering nd rebuilding, we hit the track at Easter Creek Raceway for a round of the Honda / R-Jay's Series with St George Mcc. Retros are invited, though entries are a little down as everyone's saving their bikes for the big Post Classic meeting at wakefield for the following weekend.

Retros are to line up on the same grid as up to 2004 Clubsport bikes. This should be fun! And it was! it's not often I have had to start near the backend of a grid, but my aim to carve through and pass on the outside where possible paid off.

The bike shows great promise, and after fixing a loose airbox robbing my power during qualifying, it fares ok in race 1. race 2 was also similarly fun. So I figure to maximise my fun, I'll cross enter into the modern a-d grade grid! Sunday's first practice results ina  lost gearchange circlip, quickly remedied for first race. After a promising start, the bike runs out of puff! In I come, working madly, checking basics to spark plugs. Nothing concrete is found, and the bike fails even more in Sunday's first retro race. This time the problem is found: a dodgy earth to the fuel pump!

For the rest of the day the little old fz750 fares very well. At the end of the day, even though a couple of races are missed, I win a 3rd place overall trophy for solid finishes in the good heats. Apprantly I was not the only one with mechanical gremlins, and a couple of falls by others placed me in the points. Fair enough, you've gotta be in it to win it and all that.

Thanks to my sponsors, Hourglass Photography, Pirtek Newcastle and Emtek Racing Accessories!

NEXT race: this weekend, nov 20-21, at Wakefield Park near Goulbourn.
Zoltan