More Moores - April 2008

Well Mike and I hung around all day so that Mike could get 2 sessions and me 1!
Conditions were wet patches at best and soaking wet with hail and sleet at worst.
Initially the engine seemed a bit snatchy but we managed to dial most of that out.
In the conditions handling was good but I know we will have a lot of work to do to get it right next Friday as there just no way of using anything like its full potential. It does seem to want to get a move on, having said that I can only compare it to my Norton and SV as they are the only bikes I've
ridden recently.
Nick has done his usual high standards of assembling and Mike made it look superb.
For those of you not aware the bike looks like the old Sheene Akai Yamaha....very attractive.
So back to work with the R1 over the weekend and hoping and praying I've got a bike to run next Tuesday. If anybody has some free time on Sunday and Monday please let me know.
Lots of Tea and coffee and probably a bottle of some sort to take home with you.
That'll be all Foxy

Easter Testing - some people went to the middle of the Irish Sea, others to the Home of British Motorsport

John Higham from Black Flag Racing reports the team have just done 6 days in Val de Vienne, France enjoying 2 dry days, 2 full wet days and the remaining 2 days were just miserable. They manage to burn up 2 sets of wets in the process, all valuable experience given the likelihood of racing in the wet sometime in ’08.

The team only dropped the new Yamaha R6 ONCE! John also did a couple of sessions on the road tyres to get a feel for the new bike a big mistake. However, they are looking forward to Anglesey in two weeks time.


2007 HMRC National Endurance Champions, GBMoto, have tested twice at Brands Hatch (both dry amazingly!) and joined many other HMRC teams with a weekend at Anglesey. Their #1 engine felt slow, suspension changes have left us in the dark, new brakes don’t work and running the latest tyres didn’t help clarify the handling of last year’s R1.

Macca is looking forward to seeing everybody at Round One and comments – “watch out for our GBMoto Juniors, they're mustard”

All Tony Jimenez from Moores Racing can add is “…..at least you have a bike, we're still building ours!”

Greg (Team Skint) was delighted to tell us – “We had a nice Xmas outing at Silppystone on Sunday. At 6:50am the entrance was rather covered in about 2 cm of snow and by the time we got into the circuit at 8:30 am (after the bridge had been gritted) and the first session started at 11am and not 9am, the day went quiet well.

The noise testers were a little over zealous in the afternoon, all the instructors bikes got black flagged. And because Hazel (PurpleHaze) was gunning it right next to the bloke with the microphone he pulled us in for being 4db over the limit!!!!! Still this was fixed but as the day was almost at an end a coke can and a jubilee clip got us out on track for the final session.

Had a quick check out of the Diablo 666 bikes (presumably testing for Le Mans) although I never saw them out on track during the sessions. Maybe they were waiting for the GP trackday on Monday.

Greg – Team Skint



S&P racing (me & Fatbloke) were at Anglesey on Sat 22nd March. Neither of us had seen the circuit before, so practice was much needed. Practice was going well, until I managed to slip off at Church ending my day. Got a bit of work to do before the first race, but at least we know where the track goes.

Pete


Throttlemonkey 72 racing (competing in the Senior TAG) was at Anglesey last weekend, and we had a great test.

There was at least one of us out in every session, most of the time we were all out, mostly it was dry, but windy and cold, we got a bit of ‘wet weather testing’ in as well on the Sunday morning. Everything went according to plan despite a minor off from me, no real damage though and managed to ride the bike back to the pits. We have made our tyre choices for the first race based on our tests over the weekend, the new caravan is for team accommodation and all worked well, so we are essentially all ready to race...... only 3 weeks to go.

Here are some pics of the 3 of us at Anglesey courtesy of Ryan at britishsport photography