CK & AK
26-08-2008, 08:41 AM
This morning we have had confirmed the fantastic news that 50% of the Knight Road Race Team will be racing at the World Superbike meeting at Donington on 4th - 7th Sept.
Clint has been offered a place on the grid in the support races - in the Thundersport GP1/Sound of Thunder races.
Due to the supreme kindness of David Pratt, Clint will be lining up on David's 2007 Buildbase 1098 bike in the Sound of Thunder Races, with AK & I there as 'support crew'. This is so exciting and also rather scarey at the same time for us all, as we are looking forwards to the circus that is WSB but also keeping in mind the financial implications of such a meeting too.
Clint will be going up from his regular 78bhp ride on the K RR team's Tango Monster800 - to 186bhp on Daves 1098!! However, Clint is looking forwards to this challenge as he used to ride the big watercooled bikes in South Africa and did rather well on them there. Clint is a Ducati technician, so also has to ride on shop and customer bikes for PDI/Service work etc. We all appreciate, that as we do not have any tracktime for set up between now & next week that Clint & the bike will not have time to get to know each other, so this may not produce good results.
Clint has 30 mins qualifying on the Friday, then a race on Saturday and also the Sunday. We would love to offer tickets to all our sponsors and friends but we are at present limited to only the 3 paddock passes. We are just so sorry that we cannot at this time take Bones or Nick with us too.
CK & AK :)
Clint has been offered a place on the grid in the support races - in the Thundersport GP1/Sound of Thunder races.
Due to the supreme kindness of David Pratt, Clint will be lining up on David's 2007 Buildbase 1098 bike in the Sound of Thunder Races, with AK & I there as 'support crew'. This is so exciting and also rather scarey at the same time for us all, as we are looking forwards to the circus that is WSB but also keeping in mind the financial implications of such a meeting too.
Clint will be going up from his regular 78bhp ride on the K RR team's Tango Monster800 - to 186bhp on Daves 1098!! However, Clint is looking forwards to this challenge as he used to ride the big watercooled bikes in South Africa and did rather well on them there. Clint is a Ducati technician, so also has to ride on shop and customer bikes for PDI/Service work etc. We all appreciate, that as we do not have any tracktime for set up between now & next week that Clint & the bike will not have time to get to know each other, so this may not produce good results.
Clint has 30 mins qualifying on the Friday, then a race on Saturday and also the Sunday. We would love to offer tickets to all our sponsors and friends but we are at present limited to only the 3 paddock passes. We are just so sorry that we cannot at this time take Bones or Nick with us too.
CK & AK :)