My first race at Castle Combe

layne · Post by **layne** » Jun 13th, '13, 00:22

Entered my first races on Saturday at Combe. All went well.

Only real problem was discovering that the clutch wouldn’t let me do race starts. Had to pull away slowly on normal revs until the clutch was fully released then I could gas it. Also made a mistake on the last lap into Quarry by slowing to early and got punished for it.

Reasonably pleased with the outcome. Took 5 seconds of my lap time there 2-3 years ago on the YZF.
Here’s the video of the feature race – The King of Combe. Qualified 36th out of 49 and finished 25th from 42 starters.

Two other people in it to watch for are Payner – VERY white leathers and orange tail on his RSVR and his main rival in SOT on the RC8R – very high tail piece.

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Funky · Post by **Funky** » Jun 13th, '13, 09:00

Well done, not bad for an old fart.

Rsv4Col · Post by **Rsv4Col** » Jun 13th, '13, 09:44

Well done mate

Bike seems to be going well

rik · Post by **rik** » Jun 13th, '13, 10:37

Well done layne you still got it. Whens yr debut in motogp ? How was Andy i bet you had a nice little smile all the way home!!

Smiler · Post by **Smiler** » Jun 13th, '13, 11:28

Nice one Burpy!

Post by **TLS-Moose** » Jun 13th, '13, 15:20

Nice one

I've been meaning to text you to see how things went

layne · Post by **layne** » Jun 13th, '13, 17:29

rik wrote: Well done layne you still got it. Whens yr debut in motogp ? How was Andy i bet you had a nice little smile all the way home!!

To be fair to Andy, he did have some “electrical issues” with the fuel pump and when sorted after the race, in his SOT race he did beat my lap time and Dave Mackay on the RC8R. But history will show that I BEAT HIM

and yes I did have a nice smile all the way home.

Post by **jer r1** » Jun 13th, '13, 18:27

it was good to see you, great days racing & sun shine, who could ask for more

jollyrodger · Post by **jollyrodger** » Jun 13th, '13, 19:04

It was a good days racing with lovely weather, I take my hat off to every one who took part, those 2 young lads in one of the races were flying weren't they.

goatpants · Post by **goatpants** » Jun 13th, '13, 22:25

Nice

layne · Post by **layne** » Jul 30th, '13, 13:47

Have bought some pics from the meeting.

Dribble · Post by **Dribble** » Jul 30th, '13, 14:17

nice dude, looks like a shit'load of fun ;)

Post by **TLS-Moose** » Jul 30th, '13, 14:39

hey, you're in danger of putting wear on a knee slider in a coupld of them pics

Whats this mr P was posting about someone being lapped at Oulton then ........

layne · Post by **layne** » Jul 30th, '13, 15:16

That was in the Open class.
An overweight, 20 year old, bog standard, wheezing YZF750 is no match for a fully loaded BSB 200bhp ZX10.

And I expect the rider may have had something to do with too.
Also in my defence, I was a late entry and started from the back, so the first lap was quite slow while everyone concertinaed out. Which wasn’t helped by Andy running on and off track tangling with another guy....

I did a lot better in the Pre-injection/Pre-2000 race.

badgerKDD · Post by **badgerKDD** » Jul 30th, '13, 22:09

Niiiiceeeeee!! Well done Layne, and sod the knee sliders, when are you getting the elbow sliders like all those 'kids ' are using these days

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