We arrived at the track at 6.20am rain was intermittent, with signs of blue sky.
At scrutinising we were told to lock wire the dip stick, all else was ok.
A very interesting weekend of racing was had. The weather on Saturday was atrocious, the wind was blowing a gale and it the heavy rain was intermittent, the guys who pitted next to us changed their tyres four times. Unfortunately for Blayes we did not have our spare set of wheels and wets, this made being out on track on race techs rather hazardous. However the situation gave Blayes a time to soak up the experience of what the bike felt like in this situation. He attempted to race but was black flagged for being to slow on incorrect tyres.
Sunday. We awoke to a clear blue sky and no wind, perfect conditions for a days racing. Blayes set a practice lap of 1.11. By race 4 he reduced his lap times to 1.08 which we were very pleased with. He is carrying fantastic corner speed and passing a fair few bikes in the turns and out braking them only to loose them on the straights. After much analysis and talking to other riders we conclude that the bike is seriously down on power, Blayes was only able to reach 230KPH on the back straight before hitting the limiter. This calls for some serious investigation this week. We are booking the bike for a Dyno to establish some base settings and will go from there.
Blayes entered the Clubman’s class to get some more track time and in the final race placed 3rd, however this position was appealed against by some sorry sole who believed he had been robbed of his place because on the entry into the finish straight a rider fell off in front of him, he braked hard and Blayes who was behind him took avoiding action and rode past him to take the third place. Unfortunately there was an inquiry where this sad individual said Blayes had passed him under a yellow flag, there was definitely no flag. The steward then bagged all the Clubman’s racers as idiots who do not know how to race anyway and said that Blayes should not have passed him. Blayes was bumped down to 4th.
I have to say that the officials preceding at this point need to examine their position carefully, this kind of behaviour, of verbally disrespecting the club participants and making glaringly obviously incorrect calls should not be tolerated. Shame on the Auckland Motor Cycle Club.
All in all it was a very successful weekend with Blayes driving his lap times down from 1.29 first time out on the track and on his third visit 1.08 an 11 second improvement. His aim is to reduce this time further to 1.01.
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