That's a lot of donuts. :o
I raced the 99 Australian GP on a 250GP bike and was a Bridgestone Australia rider and we talked Bridgestone Japan into bringing a few tires over and they brought 15 front and 25 rear tires for me to 'test' for them.....I think i used 4 total, 3 of them were fronts that i chunked (i shit you not), sometimes testing tires can be a little scary :o
I raced for Avon in 1994. Certain tires they were scared to let me use...
And a certain times, I was scared to use some tires...LOL!
Yeah....1200 tires. Wow!
Jeff, maybe if you had a bit bigger budget for your program for podium finishes, or near the podium, at MotoGP events.
QuoteI raced the 99 Australian GP on a 250GP bike and was a Bridgestone Australia rider and we talked Bridgestone Japan into bringing a few tires over and they brought 15 front and 25 rear tires for me to 'test' for them.....I think i used 4 total, 3 of them were fronts that i chunked (i shit you not), sometimes testing tires can be a little scary :o
Just curious - where are you in this list?
http://www2.motogp.com/en/motogp/index.html?season=1999&championship_id=2&shortname=AUS§ion=gps&menu=archive&option=wcc
1 ROSSI, Valentino ITA Aprilia 39' 28.278"
2 JACQUE, Olivier FRA Yamaha 39' 28.381"
3 UKAWA, Tohru JPN Honda 39' 29.007"
4 NAKANO, Shinya JPN Yamaha 39' 29.074"
5 WALDMANN, Ralf GER Aprilia 39' 41.375"
6 CAPIROSSI, Loris ITA Honda 39' 41.411"
7 PERUGINI, Stefano ITA Honda 39' 54.109"
8 BATTAINI, Franco ITA Aprilia 39' 54.272"
9 PORTO, Sebastian ARG Yamaha 40' 03.402"
10 WEST, Anthony AUS TSR 40' 04.724"
11 MANAKO, Tomomi JPN Yamaha 40' 18.003"
12 VINCENT, Jay GBR Honda 40' 19.227"
13 HOFMANN, Alex GER TSR 40' 27.635"
14 BOSCOSCURO, Luca ITA TSR 40' 27.651"
15 TOKUDOME, Masaki JPN TSR 40' 34.441"
16 NIETO, Fonsi SPA Yamaha 40' 56.151"
17 GARCIA, David SPA Yamaha 40' 57.772"
18 JANSSEN, Jarno NED TSR 39' 36.409"
19 STIGEFELT, Johan SWE Yamaha 39' 49.683"
20 RIOS, Matias ARG Aprilia 40' 26.120"
21 HARRISON, Roger AUS Yamaha 40' 40.944"
NOT CLASSIFIED (NC), NOT STARTING (NS), NOT FINISHED FIRST LAP (NF)
STA RIDER COUNTRY BIKE TIME
NC McWILLIAMS, Jeremy GBR Aprilia 1' 40.960"
NC CURTAIN, Kevin AUS Honda 1' 47.359"
NC GERONIMI, Shaun AUS Yamaha 3' 21.873"
NC BOLWERK, Maurice NED TSR 3' 22.396"
NC ALLEMAND, Julien FRA TSR 3' 24.770"
NC SMART, Scott GBR Aprilia 3' 34.869"
NC TAYLOR, Jay AUS Honda 36' 17.793"
didnt qualify by 0.52 second, having to run unleaded FIM spec gas caused havoc for all the wildcards, by the time we cheated and went back to leaded gas for the last qualifying it was too late. I ran 1.39's at the National round a few months before. Roger Harrison was the only wildcard to finish the race that year. I did get to hang out with Alex Hoffman for a while when we were doing a parade lap in the new BMW Z3 :)
http://www.europark.com/ny-reslt/ny-r1999/gp9913aus.htm
250cc Official Practice Time
Best Time
P.No. Rider Nat. 1st.Sess. 2nd.Sess. Motorcycle Team
1 9 Jeremy McWILLIAMS GBR 1'34.221 *1'33.919 Aprilia QUB Team Optimum
2 19 Olivier JACQUE FRA *1'34.081 1'34.272 Yamaha Chesterfield Yamaha Tech 3
3 1 Loris CAPIROSSI ITA *1'34.160 1'34.359 Honda Elf Axo Honda Gresini
4 56 Shinya NAKANO JPN 1'34.902 *1'34.236 Yamaha Chesterfield Yamaha Tech 3
5 4 Tohru UKAWA JPN 1'34.531 *1'34.482 Honda Shell Advance Honda Team
6 24 Jason VINCENT GBR 1'35.426 *1'34.527 Honda Padgetts HRC Shop
7 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA 1'34.863 *1'34.541 Aprilia Aprilia Grand Prix Racing
8 6 Ralf WALDMANN GER 1'34.633 *1'34.629 Aprilia Aprilia Germany
9 12 Sebastian PORTO ARG 1'35.290 *1'34.693 Yamaha Semprucci Biesse-Group
10 7 Stefano PERUGINI ITA *1'34.738 1'34.848 Honda Fila Watches Honda
11 21 Franco BATTAINI ITA *1'35.211 1'35.279 Aprilia FGF Battaini Racing
12 11 Tomomi MANAKO JPN 1'36.078 *1'35.315 Yamaha Yamaha Kurz Aral
13 14 Anthony WEST AUS 1'35.587 *1'35.458 TSR-Honda Shell Advance Honda Team
14 44 Roberto ROLFO ITA *1'35.873 Aprilia Vasco Rossi Racing
15 23 Julien ALLEMAND FRA *1'36.193 1'36.630 TSR-Honda Tecmas Honda Elf
16 37 Luca BOSCOSCURO ITA *1'36.402 1'37.034 TSR-Honda Polini
17 66 Alex HOFMANN GER 1'36.847 *1'36.488 TSR-Honda Racing Factory
18 17 Maurice BOLWERK NED 1'37.669 *1'36.985 TSR-Honda Rizla Honda
19 38 Shaun GERONIMI AUS *1'37.045 1'37.619 Yamaha Rgv Spares
20 10 Fonsi NIETO SPA 1'38.613 *1'37.080 Yamaha Antena 3 Yamaha-D'Antin
21 36 Masaki TOKUDOME JPN 1'38.948 *1'37.205 TSR-Honda Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team
22 15 David GARCIA SPA 1'37.595 *1'37.302 Yamaha Antena 3 Yamaha-D'Antin
23 41 Jarno JANSSEN NED 1'37.469 *1'37.427 TSR-Honda Team Rizla Honda
24 18 Scott SMART GBR 1'38.316 *1'37.806 Aprilia Sabre Docshop Racing
25 43 Kevin CURTAIN AUS 1'39.275 *1'37.847 Honda Aluma-Lite Racing
26 16 Johan STIGEFELT SWE 1'38.451 *1'37.967 Yamaha Edo Racing
27 40 Jay TAYLOR AUS 1'39.638 *1'38.003 Honda Shell Advance Honda Team
28 39 Roger HARRISON AUS *1'38.996 1'41.016 Yamaha Casino Canberra
29 58 Matias RIOS ARG 1'40.361 *1'39.315 Aprilia PR2 Mitsubishi
Not Qualified (Out of 107 %)
30 42 Aaron CLARK NZL 1'44.869 *1'41.550 Honda Hjc/Aral Lubricants
31 22 Lucas OLIVER SPA *1'41.948 Yamaha Yamaha Kurz Aral
QuoteJust curious - where are you in this list?
Really?
Bring your cash.
My money's on Clarkie...
Aaron has plenty of creds to back himself up. A few racers might actually do a FUSA race. Fewer do a FUSA season. Fewer riders to an AMA race. Even fewer do a season.
How many wild card entries are there into an FIM World Championship Road Race? Aaron had one....
QuoteJust curious - where are you in this list?
Better yet...
Where are your regional results?
Thanks Dave, not qualifying was a real bummer, top 3 National riders in Aussie get a wildcard and there are 1-2 'invatation' spots as well which Kevin Curtain and Jay Taylor got both of those spots as Kevin was the 600 champ (i think) and Jay was the current or former 125 Champ.
I like the way regular readers (or posters) log on with a new name to throw shit at someone, we put in one hell of an effort but at the end of qualifying i didnt get it done so we drank a lot of burbon and partied with the GP guys anyway maybe next time i will just blame the tires for not qualifying, around here it seems that blaming someone other than yourself is a common practice ::)
It was prety cool just being part of the show, there are some pretty big names in the rider list, a mate of mine actually learnt Italian just so he could say hi to Rossi........ problem was he said hi when he, Rossi and Melandri were all taking a piss, i guess Italians dont like guys talking to them in the bathroom either ;D
Quote...anyway maybe next time i will just blame the tires for not qualifying, around here it seems that blaming someone other than yourself is a common practice ::)...
Yeah, and that's why I think there are a whole lot of Australian riders with rides in the US.