Zimbo's Brands Desmodue report

Zimbo · 16-04-2007, 06:07 PM

This was my second visit to Brands Hatch, once committed to racing at Brands I thought I’d better learn the circuit in advance and did a Trackday in mid March. I’d had a good day, getting my lap times down to a best of 59.97 seconds, and was reasonably confident of a reasonable performance come race day. A few of the top riders from 2006 have moved up to the 620cc class A series and I felt a top five place should be possible. Final bike prep had been carried out a week in advance at Mallory Park, which included scrubbing in a new set of tyres, and an oil change and carb balance were carried out before race day.
I loaded the bike plus spares, fuel, paddock stand, mattress and sleeping bag, leathers and kit etc into the van and picked up mate Andy who was racing with us for the first time on a borrowed 600SS, and we set off to Brands Saturday lunchtime. We met up with Gilps on route, his freshly sprayed 600SS in JCB yellow looking good on his trailer, and descended on the circuit to the space kept open for us by Bob. Harriebird arrived minutes later and was manouvered into position. Unload vans, set up Gazebo, open beer, walk round paddock catching up with fellow racers and families, got the bikes scrutineered. Circuit walk before the light faded, cook dinner, another beer, bed.

16-04-2007, 06:07 PM	#1
Zimbo Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Stonehouse, Glos Bike: Multiple Monsters Posts: 2,079	Zimbo's Brands Desmodue report This was my second visit to Brands Hatch, once committed to racing at Brands I thought I’d better learn the circuit in advance and did a Trackday in mid March. I’d had a good day, getting my lap times down to a best of 59.97 seconds, and was reasonably confident of a reasonable performance come race day. A few of the top riders from 2006 have moved up to the 620cc class A series and I felt a top five place should be possible. Final bike prep had been carried out a week in advance at Mallory Park, which included scrubbing in a new set of tyres, and an oil change and carb balance were carried out before race day. I loaded the bike plus spares, fuel, paddock stand, mattress and sleeping bag, leathers and kit etc into the van and picked up mate Andy who was racing with us for the first time on a borrowed 600SS, and we set off to Brands Saturday lunchtime. We met up with Gilps on route, his freshly sprayed 600SS in JCB yellow looking good on his trailer, and descended on the circuit to the space kept open for us by Bob. Harriebird arrived minutes later and was manouvered into position. Unload vans, set up Gazebo, open beer, walk round paddock catching up with fellow racers and families, got the bikes scrutineered. Circuit walk before the light faded, cook dinner, another beer, bed.