Who's got racing experience here then?

If you have, please elaborate; eg. what club did/do you belong to?
Any notable success? What class of machine? etc
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After years of moaning about immigrants now i am one...

I've been racing on and off since 99 (mostly on).

Raced with the AFM, and will be doing WERA south east and USGPRU south east this year.

Raced
750 Superbike, Production
250 Superbike, Production
Formula II/250 GP

Finished more races then I haven't finished.
Have never seized an engine on the track, and have only had one piston seize under my watch of 7 years running 2-strokes (girl friends NSR250 race bike).
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Charles Gallant

yeah,

i raced triumph sidecar outfits in the 80s and raced at a big famous track in belgium but was the monkey in the chair. I once raced an mz sidecar outfit (chuckle chuckle) and highsided (more of a dig in and flip) it at mallory hairpin. If only the sponsorship deals had materialised and dunlop had manufacture their one off B roadrunner i'd have been rubbing shoulders with the best. won a bronze and silver enduro medal, sadly i don't think this is the story you are looking for. mind you if i get into classic racing 2stroke...who knows how fast i'll be if i can only curb the crashing.

wes

As a one time MZ racer myself (solo, not outfit) i won't chuckle at your experience of these machines!
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After years of moaning about immigrants now i am one...

Raced my NSR for a few years, though no notable success. 13th I think was my best finish.

It was with NG road race club - or North Goloucester as they were back then.

Got fed up of getting the jetting wrong, so raced an NC30 a couple of times, though didn't fare any better.

I'd been off through injury for a eighteen months, and by that time racing had got a lot more expensive (they'd moved up to Donnington, Silverstone etc) so packed it in.

These days, to contest a full season with any hope of doing well, I reckon you'd be looking at £6000 a year...
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Andy.
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I race my NSR250 in Derby Phoenix F250, I've only done two races but I'll tell you one thing right now, you don't need F3 this or HRC that to get respectable results and you certainly don't need to touch the jetting (presuming it's in the right ballpark), I know more than one mid pack RGV250 boy who doesn't posses a single spare jet. You need a reliable bike with 60ish bhp, some skill and a lot of nerve, neither of which I have (skill or nerve), we'll see if I can do a little better at Donington on Sunday, I know which way the track goes as well as anyone and I'm prepared for the rain (I now have some wets!).

Dave, MJ has guessed it costs around £3k to get to, enter and run a season in DP in a thread on the RGV forum here.
But you don't have to do that, you can prep any 250 for a few hundred quid, get your licence and pop your cherry.
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Last edited by fontyyy on Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:32 am; edited 1 time in total

Started racing in 2000 with a KR1S first at Darley Moor and then with Derby Phoenix and came second in the first ever KR cup run my MJ [more through staying upright than finishing well].
Then in 2004 moved onto a TZ250 which i was just getting the hang off when it high sided me at Cadwell and i broke both feet.
Work and marriage put an end to the racing but now back on an NSR so may do a few track days next year.

I started racing in '89 with OMK. Then in '92 with AMA. Best finish was 4th, but I was usually in the top third. I have been racing with PCA and SCCA since '97. Almost always a top finisher if I don't break. Probably spent $250K (not including finance charges) in the past 10 years.
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