Good day all round.

Good day all round.
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I cant believe our luck with the weather.
We did have a couple of showers but with the track already being warm, and a gentle wind it was dry in no time.
I think we even managed six sessions!

I had a great day on Bill, I found some red paint on the rocker cover and couldn't figure out where it came from, the clue was in the picture....

Bad luck for those doing the evening track day though, we have left them with pouring rain and no sun to dry it.


I had get get a shuffle on to keep up with Mark, Bill and I had to take some 'Air' during our sessions.

Thursday - must be Cadwell.

Thursday - must be Cadwell.
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Well its fine and sunny at the moment but unfortunately thundery showers are forecast later.
I am here with Mark Parrinder doing a track assessment.

Ming fancies a run out.

Ming fancies a run out.
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Brought Ming along today after swapping ignition last night I am interested to see if it will make a difference to the power. Also it will be interesting to have a run round with Gerhard for the last session of the day on a similar machine.

Oulton Park

Oulton Park
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Having a nice day out here at Oulton park. Doing a spot of track assessment with Bemsee member and EDIasia competitor Gerhard Quinn.

Weekend at home

I thought I would have loads of time to drop the new motor in to the frame run it up on a Dyno and then "hey presto" we would be ready to rock and roll.

But as often happens I ran out of time whilst on the Dyno when we found a huge hole in the mid range and a problem just before peak power.

There is nothing wrong with Peter's motor it has huge potential, Robbie Silvester and I spent loads of time trying an assortment of things to identify the problem, but to no avail.

We ended up with a similar BHP figure as the original motor but the shape of the curve overall was poor, so I decided to pull the plug on this weekend's races and reschedule for the next Bemsee meeting.

This will give us plenty of time to identify and rectify the issue and show just what Peter Day can produce, a reliable top flight machine.

I know I've ridden his OW01's for many races and won on them too!

Most overview video - at last!

Uncle Peter

...has beautifully built up a replacement motor for 'ming the merciless'.

Martin with his full time job and family committments is unable to prepare a race bike in time for Magione so the Italian supermono race is cancelled for me.

However, as luck would have it there is an EDIasia formula 400 event at Brands this weekend.

All I've got to do now is find the time to fit the replacement motor and get to Robbie Silvester's to run it up on the dyno!

Good day with Piers.

Spent plenty of time on track, Piers has certainly got faster since we last did track work together.
Hopefully after today's sessions he will be faster still.
Piers is back at Brands in a couple of weeks time, racing - so only time will tell...

Brands Hatch GP circuit.

I hope the weather keeps fine, we are at Brands on the full circuit.

I am here with minitwins competitor Piers Hutchins, doing a spot of track assessment.

Reflection on Most

It seems that it wasn't just me that was pleased with the result at Most, all the Czech sponsors were over the moon with the result and the overall presentation of the team.

They were a little bemused by the colour of my hair after the race - but I wanted to show them I was 110% committed to their support of the team.

Poor Johannes Kehrer was shocked when he was told he was the runner up in the Czech Championship race; especially as he was stood on the top postition of the rostrum at the time - only then to find out I had a Czech licence - sorry Johannes.

Photo by: Zdenek.

Everyone happy.

It was a tough race. Although I could get up to and sometimes pass Lex and Mark there was no way I could keep in front.

With their bigger engines and horsepower advantage they just drove away from me on the straights.

I am very happy with 3rd in the UEM CUP and my Win in the Czech championship.
Job done.

Morning warm up

Everything is fine.

Changed throttle cable yesterday, much better now.

Only did a couple of laps to check things are working and save the bike for the race.

Ready to race.

Spent the second qualifying session working on getting the bike ready for tomorrow's race.

Martin had richen'd the needle setting after the first session.
That had made things worse.

Martin was out riding his own bike so Jirka and I fiddled around with the carb settings until it felt fit to race.

When I came back to the pits I found that Mark Lawes and Lex had gone faster. Bu$$er.

Still a front row start though, on the grid in 3rd.

First qualifying

Started with just did a couple of laps faster after using the free practice this morning to run the motor in.

Couple of tweaks and changes and managed to get pole by the end of the session.

I'm currently the only one under 1min 48.

Next fastest is Lex then Nico Kehrer.

Feels very bizarre.

I think this is going to be the strangest race meeting I have ever done.

A conflict of dates with the German IDM championship meant that although the supermono entry was well subscribed, the other classes were not.

The organisers wanted to cancel the event; so one of the team sponsors stepped in and booked the entire circuit to run the event themselves.

We have the whole place to ourselves, like I said ... bizarre...

Cheers!

The bags have still not arrived.
Not panicking too much yet.
There is still time...
We have been made very welcome by the italian team who have shared their dinner with us in true European 'family style'.

Ciao.

Arrived at Most.

However none of our bags have arrived yet.

Just mooching the garages to see who is here.

Stopped at the Cairo pit box to admire their lovely machinery.

Video overview - CMRC - Donington

Action shot from Donington

This great shot of me riding 'Betty', a 350cc Molnar Manx Norton, at Donington Park coming onto the home straight on full song, is by Russell Lee, Sport-pics.co.uk