Testing Testing 1, 2, 3...
Or maybe that should be 1, 1, 9!
On the 19th February, Erol and I made our way up to Leicestershire to take the Hornets around Donington Park. It was a tricky start to the day with the track being very damp and both of us too lazy to swap to wets when we knew we'd be on dries the next session. So we slithered around for a few laps and tried to remember our way around this great track.
Someone had been a complete t**t and set about our bikes, loosening things here and there and making our first session a bit upsetting but once the bikes we sorted and the sun tried to come out we started to have some fun.
Even though we were in the ACU group we could still throw our Hornets around and keep up with 'faster' bikes - the look I got from a CBR600RR as he realized he was never going to shake off my Hornet was priceless!!
Erol was very impressive on his bike around a track that he did not know very well and managed to beat the time I set last year when I put my bike on pole position in Superclub. That was a 1.22 and set when the track temperature was much higher. With temperatures a lot lower we were well on the pace and finally my lap timer displayed an amazing time of 1.19.99 - a sub 1 minute 20 second lap (just!) Possibly one of the fastest ever times a Hornet has ever gone around Donington (totally unofficial timing, of course)
So that's it for now, the bikes will finally get painted soon and we will be testing at Snetterton on the 11th march a week before we go to our first race of the year, again at the Norfolk track.
We would also like to say a big 'Thank You' to Nick at Jester's Trick Bits (www.jesterstrickbits.co.uk) for making up this years stickers and race numbers.
On the 19th February, Erol and I made our way up to Leicestershire to take the Hornets around Donington Park. It was a tricky start to the day with the track being very damp and both of us too lazy to swap to wets when we knew we'd be on dries the next session. So we slithered around for a few laps and tried to remember our way around this great track.
Someone had been a complete t**t and set about our bikes, loosening things here and there and making our first session a bit upsetting but once the bikes we sorted and the sun tried to come out we started to have some fun.
Even though we were in the ACU group we could still throw our Hornets around and keep up with 'faster' bikes - the look I got from a CBR600RR as he realized he was never going to shake off my Hornet was priceless!!
Erol was very impressive on his bike around a track that he did not know very well and managed to beat the time I set last year when I put my bike on pole position in Superclub. That was a 1.22 and set when the track temperature was much higher. With temperatures a lot lower we were well on the pace and finally my lap timer displayed an amazing time of 1.19.99 - a sub 1 minute 20 second lap (just!) Possibly one of the fastest ever times a Hornet has ever gone around Donington (totally unofficial timing, of course)
So that's it for now, the bikes will finally get painted soon and we will be testing at Snetterton on the 11th march a week before we go to our first race of the year, again at the Norfolk track.
We would also like to say a big 'Thank You' to Nick at Jester's Trick Bits (www.jesterstrickbits.co.uk) for making up this years stickers and race numbers.
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