I was gonna say 'If you were a bit later on the brakes' then at 5min, you got the dopey fucker. Nice work!
Careful, he is a forum member! It was his first time out on it and he was having a few issues (especially with the brakes, which don’t seem to like trackwork). You are right about me on the brakes... it is just a trackday though, and I’d hate to make a silly mistake pulling off a winning pass
On the dash (I was using the pzracing gps plugin to trigger the laptimer). Generally under 1m50s, but haven’t hit 1m45s yet. 1m50 is a comfortable time round there and just squeezesme in the fast group.
Quicker than me I think but I'm going for fast group from now on as inters is to slow. I like your line down through Craner, getting the 1st part right sets you up nicely all the way up the other side to McLean. You turn in late and on the power early on a lot of the corners.
Looks like good clean lines to me, although you don’t seem to use the curbs much, which is an easy way to carry a bit more speed as you’re effectively straightening the corner Most of the curbs at Donington are very friendly, so you can just use them as the track
I loved my line through Craner until the last visit... lost the front north of 110mph! I enjoy turning in late (I still think I'm turning in too early in most cases!) and trying to stand the bike up a little before getting on the power...gives me a chance to try to stay with the bigger bikes on the first part of corner exit and is nice and safe fun (more fun accelerating on the last part of the corner than in a straight line, but it does show I have corner speed to spare). I struggle to take the risk late braking and turning in with more speed.... something I am trying to work on a bit. I know what you mean about Groups. I enjoy Inters because most "problems" are the ones I approach rather than any closing in from behind, but it does slow your pace. Riding exactly the same (in terms of percieved risk) in inters I will do consistent 1m50-1m52, whereas in Fast I will consistently be below 1m49, even though I think I am riding exactly the same. Just me avoiding risk again. I could definitely go out wider before turn in and cut the apexes more and run wider. I am generally just keeping a margin of safety to be able to change my line if I do not quite get it right.
The trouble is 1.50s and below puts you at the front of inters with many of the riders a lot slower than that so you have to roll off when you don't necessarily want to. I'm around the 1.47s mark now which puts me in the bottom third of the fast group on most days.
Msv days tend to be a bit slower than say an NL day. They have less crashes too, which is always a bonus I’m racing there in March with NLR, and they don’t have a Friday test day, so run the test day mixed in with the trackdayers on the Thursday, and that’ll be a red flag fest
I totally get that. Some tracks have curbs you can literally use as the track, and others they're significantly less friendly (Cartagena for example, where they're like riding into a breeze block) It'll be good to have a spin around there with you lot in April anyway, and really hope the Summer's turned up by then
Same pace as me and same problem... hopefully I get dragged up to at least halfway pace of fast! I made that mistake at Cadwell last year. Compounded by it being my first ride on the 959 and also I joined an evening session where most of them had been flying around all day! Absolutely! Did level 1 a week after passing my test. Tried it with 205hp! The 959 has enough power, but it is a very well behaved bike. They really should have a record of who has done how many races and not let them do that. Ruins it for the slower guys and could easily end in a terrible mess.
Castle Combe was my favourite, you can completely cut across a few of the chicanes. Donington have been doing some work (I’ll look for a link) and one of the improvements is the run off out of the old hairpin.
Right, I've just booked on with MSV using the DUC code The chap on the phone said we've got just over 20 in our group now
