How do I get support like this?

[Jeff]

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=23229

wow... droooooool

[dylanfan53]

That's a lot of donuts.  :o

[Clarkie49]

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

[Super Dave]

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.

[breather]

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

Just curious - where are you in this list?

http://www2.motogp.com/en/motogp/index.html?season=1999&championship_id=2&shortname=AUS&section=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"

[Clarkie49]

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

[Super Dave]

Just 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....  

[Super Dave]

Just curious - where are you in this list?

Better yet...

Where are your regional results?

[Clarkie49]

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

[Super Dave]

...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.