Welcome to the forum, fellow new V2 owner here and will be doing my first track day at the Ducati track day at Donnington Park in May with my son instructing, can’t wait. Have a fantastic year on yours and enjoy your track days too! Feel for you on dropping the bike but there go all of us eventually. Glad it wasn’t too expensive.
People seem to forget the v2 is 157 bhp 199kg and tops out 170mph, because it has a bigger lunatic brother everyone thinks it's a middleweight where it is far from it so on the straights it flies on the bends it glides, not really its more of a drop it in but glides rhymed. My point is people think its slower than it actually is. Its defo up with litre bikes it nearly is one
Looking forward on my V2 not falling so far behind my son on his v4 SP2 as I did last year behind his V4S on my then Honda CBR650R! He’s ex BSB so he will still beat the pant off me but not by so much! Honda topped out on the autobahns at 137mph actual, the V2 will be 170 ish His V4 SP2 with Akrapovic exhaust will still be north of 200!
Welcome, I spent most of my recent tracktime on an R1, but have gone back to an 899. I had an F3 800 and a Panigale V2 when they first came out also. I'm south west, so Snetterton I go to quite a lot tbh as I like it and it's cheap. I'm there a week tomorrow, albeit it I'm most likely riding an old RSV Mille.
Hello and welcome. I'm a big fan of Donny. TBF not ridden anything bigger than a 600 and I comfortably sat in the fast group. 1'50's at a comfortable pace on the avatar gsxr 600. +1 here for braking. Nearly all of my overtakes came from braking later and later and driving out of the corner earlier. It is amazing how many bikers will piss around with the throttle between Mcleans and Coppice and the same from the esses to the melbourne loop. Can be a tad tedious with a bigger hp bike giving it the bigguns on the straights but the bravado usually runs off and hides come site of a braking zone.
Completely agree - top spot for overtaking IMO is either bottom of the hill before tipping into the old hairpin, or get yourself alongside for the entry into Coppice. I think maybe the blind turn in for Coppice puts people off getting on the beans out of McCleans?
To be fair, for an experienced track day rider coppice is a challenge all by itself. I think the blind entry and double apex causes hesitation and then before you know it the rider is way too deep, has scrubbed speed and that hugley affects the exit. I don't think the average rider is happy with the bike moving around underneath them, and specifically with coppice, it is easy to break on that incline with the rear lifted slightly, which puts people off from tipping in until the bike feels stable. Another favourite is Goddards. It is a really wide corner so you dont need to hug the apex and I often found I could ride up the inside on the pit straight whilst others were still picking the bike up. Schwantz is my favourite part of the circuit by far. On the 600 it was flat out from the old hairpin, another place where riders are hesitant as they are already preparing for Mcleans, way too early.
A little OT, apologies to the mods! But yes the whole way down Craners all the way through to Coppice is a delight, so smooth and flowing. And you can properly get on the beans up the hill out of the old hairpin, as you say lots of riders don't carry half as much speed through Starkeys as you can do. Goddard's though - no way. It's the work of the devil. Whatever line you choose always feels horrible. Think I've only felt happy with it perhaps once out of a hundred times I've been round Melbourne just before is almost as bad!
