Grid Position
Choosing the grid position. Looks a bit more sophisticated these days - I seem to recall choosing a lollipop stick or a clothes peg with numbers on, back in the day.
Whenever I arrived at this spot I used to feel physically queasy at the thought of being in the middle of 30 or so 250 two strokes doing a push start (it is easy for someone to fail to start their bike, or stall in front, leaving me with nowhere to go) and then having to bring the front wheel down to peel round the first left hander. Fortunately, I always came away unscathed and it has now passed into legend as one of the most exciting things I've done ;-)
It was great to see this "proper" racing two stroke in action yesterday.
Quite ironic to see a No Smoking sign near the holding area for a race full of two strokes.
Grid Position
Choosing the grid position. Looks a bit more sophisticated these days - I seem to recall choosing a lollipop stick or a clothes peg with numbers on, back in the day.
Whenever I arrived at this spot I used to feel physically queasy at the thought of being in the middle of 30 or so 250 two strokes doing a push start (it is easy for someone to fail to start their bike, or stall in front, leaving me with nowhere to go) and then having to bring the front wheel down to peel round the first left hander. Fortunately, I always came away unscathed and it has now passed into legend as one of the most exciting things I've done ;-)
It was great to see this "proper" racing two stroke in action yesterday.
Quite ironic to see a No Smoking sign near the holding area for a race full of two strokes.