As a treat she could pit crew for you, swap brake pads and top up the fluids hold the brolly up on the starting grid. She’ll really enjoy the experience day I’m certain.
I think she would enjoy the day but I’ve never been able to persuade her along. She will no doubt be out with her girl friends for lunch. Then sting me for a posh meal that evening. Fair enough.
Not quite a trackdays, but thought I'd share a photo from my last round at Oulton during morning practice
Had a shit year plagued with bike issues, so up until a few weeks ago I’d only done about 5 laps all year. But all hopefully sorted now and managed a decent day at Donny. Miles off my pace but to be expected I guess.
Very little track time this year sadly, but a couple of decent shots from Matt Antony Photography at Oulton Park last month.
A few pics from Mugello. I come out once a year, drive over a mix it up with the local Italian track day organisers Ended up being 5 seconds faster on the Ducati compared the RSV4 with a 2:10.
A 2:10 is useful. We want to go in 2024 and include Imola or Misano. Can you disclose who the “local Italian track day organisers” are?
I am wondering what is possible with slicks and some time with an instructor. Promo racing are the main organisers. They typically do 3 day events every month. They’re based locally. If I understand correctly they basically sort all the TD events for Mugello. Even for other organisers. The other two are Gully racing and Rossocorsa. All three are very slickly run and also do Misano days. Now I can’t recall if they do Imola. one bit of advice or feedback. Italian days are a bit different from the U.K. You get 4 sessions and a “fun” race. Basically a time attack session. You’re grouped on lap times (you’re provided transponders), experience and bike capacity. If you’ve never done the circuit you’ll be put into Novice/Rookie. Then moved up a group if your lap times are dropping. Race licence holders have their own group, 600s do and then it’s advanced, inters etc. So while you’ll get less sessions you find the events rarely get red flagged, the pace for everyone in their respective group is very similar. So you get rarely frustrated by traffic etc. I’d also say the level of riding is very high at Italian days. You will also find respect to each other on track is much greater than the U.K. Seems less ego? I was also amazed to see a really high calibre of bikes and track builds. I had 3 Brand new V4Rs in my box and a new M1000. Rarely do you see a track bike held together with zip ties and duct tape
Pics up from Silverstone two weeks ago. Zero worth looking at. The shots aren’t great but my riding position etc is horrific. Lots of work to do to get back on ‘track’ if I want to exploit and enjoy this bike.
