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03/07/2009: 2009 Round 4 - Summary
The NAST pit was at the top end, for this meeting, which was handy, watching the trucks go over the finish line, and seeing there times and mph.
A few where hitting 100 mph, not bad for 6plus tons of tractor unit.
Behind us was, truck city, where the truckers spent the entire weekend cleaning them, and sounding there air horns.
NAST top gas and street ET, where the only bike classes racing, with a few super street doing demos.
Again the form book went out of the widow, you will have to read our class reps write ups to see who did who etc. on the track.
NAST had a good time at the truck show, and it would be nice to do again next year. We had 17 enter set, 2 had to pull out but still a very good entry.
3 of the 17, where new members, welcome to NAST:
- Nigel Batsford on his street scrambler style Triumph
- John Monday on his Harley Davidson Sportster sport
- Martin Brooks on his played with TLR 1000
Well done to John and Martin for completing your observed runs.
It was very nice to sit around on Saturday night with a beer, on a warm summers evening chatting with NAST mint!
See you all soon. Regards, Leso
03/07/2009: 2009 Round 4 - Class Summaries
Chris Mott and Joe Elliot have kindly provided summaries for the event from their appropriate class perspectives. You can read their write-ups on the Super Twins website.
25/06/2009: Article About Les and Andy 'Soapy' Watson in the Eastern Daily Press
Today, Thursday 25th June 2009, both Les and Andy 'Soapy' Watson appeared in the Eastern Daily Press on page 49, in the Sport section. You can also read about it here.
The paper itself includes a very nice photo of both riders and bikes taken only a few days ago.
We are all delighted that our efforts during that round made the local media, and we hope you will enjoy the photos!
23/06/2009: Weekend away in Yorkshire working on Polharris Top-Gas drag bike, in GLS workshop
On Friday last Lyn and I went up to Yorkshire to work on the new drag bike, and chill out with George and Loraine.
Lyn says it’s the only place I do chill out and Loraine agrees.
George has done so much to the bike since my last visit! What a top man, thank you George!
We spent Saturday working on the bike, sorting out the seat rails etc. It was part 3 of my frame building course, I haven’t done that much compared to George, but I have done some of it.
Late on Saturday we put the bike on the floor and sat on it. It was a nice moment, a sign that we are getting there! The plan is to race it next year.
George is going to weld the seat rails, then spec can work on the tail pipes. We have had a good site meeting about where the fuel tank/rad/pump are going to live. It won’t be long before it comes back to Norfolk, to have the bodywork made.
I took shed loads of photos, tc ordered me to do so, tc and anna could not come as they had to work (moan, groan). So enjoy the photos of The Polharris so far.
Regards, Leso
23/06/2009: Roman Sixta Racing at Santa Pod!
Roman Sixta kindly sent this photo to Pavel Kubera, who in turn forwarded it on to me recently. See, honestly I do work sometimes!
23/06/2009: Les and Andy on the Boxes
Winner and runner-up collecting their Santa Pod trophies and their Super-Twin Dougie's from Round 03!
19/06/2009: Otto Kneblova's New PB
Congratulations to Otto who won the Czech Competition bike class in the Czech Championship round that was held at Hoskovice. In doing so he set a new personal best of 8.025 seconds! That's fast Otto, well done to you at the team.
19/06/2009: Update on the Czech Rocket
Pavel has kindly sent us some photos from a recent event and show he was at.
He had a good run that day into a headwind resulting in a time of 9.662 seconds for the 1/4 mile at 236km/h and 6.35 seconds at 194km/h the 1/8th. On his second race he ended up winning, congratulations Pavel!
In an amazing turn out they had 160 teams taking part in the bike drag racing! What a turn out!
The other photos were from the Motorbike Show Prague 09, which I hope some of you will also enjoy.
19/06/2009: 2009 Round 03 - Weekend Summary
I've done a long write-up of the weekend as a summary, not really focusing on the classes but with the odd mention. Kindly enough other people have offered to do write-up's from the perspective of each of the classes that raced that weekend, and they should appear on the Super Twins site in the coming week.
You can read this write-up on the Super Twins site by following this link.
19/06/2009: 2009 Round 03 Top-Gas Summary
Chris Mott has kindly provided a summary for the event from the perspective of the Top-Gas class. You can read his write-up on the Super Twins site by following this link.
16/06/2009: A Call for an ET Class Follower's Report of the Weekend
We already have someone that has volunteered to do a write-up of this past weekend's activity from the perspective of the Top-Gas class, and we will try to publish that later this week.
However, we were wondering if someone out there would like to do a write-up for the Street ET class perspective of how the weekend went for them, what they saw as the highs and lows of the weekend.
If you would like to help the club with a report about this past weekend, it only has to be as long as you want to write, then please get in touch with Les or Barrie and have a quick discussion over the telephone.
10/06/2009: Some Summer Lovin'
Joe’s other half Becs asked us to post a note on the website that she will be cutting hair at the Summer Nationals if anyone wants a new look or even just a quick trim!
06/06/2009: Update for Summer Nationals Next Weekend
Scrutineering and Signing On
Please sign on first when you arrive.
Please Note: Scrutineering will not be done in the pits this time. You must go up to the new compound/bay at the top end of the pits.
Friday night starting at 17:00 hrs / 5pm, is open to any class, just turn up to be scrutineered. Finish time will be around 20:00 hrs / 8pm ish.
Saturday morning scrutineering all classes have time slots. NAST Gas and ET is from 11:00 hrs, do not come up before as you will be sent back to the pits.
The running order for Saturday: Gas and ET will be after the jet car, at around 12:00 hrs midday.
02/06/2009: Junior Drag Bike Points Update
Round Two of the 2009 Insane Motorcycles Junior Drag Bike Championship took place last weekend 16/17 May at Shakespeare County Raceway. We were severely limited to qualifying runs due to the bad weather, and we only managed to get one on Saturday and one on Sunday after which the heavens opened and no more qualifying was possible, with all our eliminations completely rained out. Points have been awarded after qualifying only. The qualifying was Brett first, then Jordon, Scott, Giselle and Luke. The usual 25 points for closest to dial in went to Brett Cordelle, and the 25 points best RT went to Scott Collier. So the championship stands like this after two rounds:
- Brett Cordelle 505
- Jordon Bissell 480
- Scott Collier 455
- Luke Argyle 220
- Joe Dear 120
- Giselle Moor 120
The next round of the championship will be on the 11th and 12th July at Shakespeare County Raceway, with hopefully another two riders joining the ranks. Our thanks as always to Julie, Jerry and all the crew at Shakey for their support of this fabulous and expanding class, and to Nick Argyle of Insane Motorcycles for his sponsorship of the championship. Insane Motorcycles can be reached on 01386 41164, and specialise in custom frames and one off designs.
For any information on Junior Drag Bike Racing please contact us on 01246 570304 or look at www.juniordragbike.co.uk, our newly made site by Wizzard Technical Designs, which will be fully functioning shortly.
02/06/2009: Tilly 3 Update
As many of you know, over the winter break we have worked on Tilly 3. As Lyn pionted out, we run the steamliner, or nothing.
So HQ fibre, Mike Sylvie and I, put together a set of body work.
TLR nose fairing, one off belly pan, and now being made a new front mudgard.
Dave May did the paint work that you can see in the attached photo. Photo taken by Mark Woodhouse, in the pairing lanes at SCR.
So now we have two sets to play with.
More work is planned on the streamliner body, but more of that at a later date.
29/05/2009: Truck Show Submissions
Just an important reminder that the closing date for Round 4 is the 5th June!
We currently have a small number of entries already in, but you've just about a week remaining to get them sorted and in to take part at this event.
19/05/2009: Keith Parnell Sprint
In 1975 Keith parnell riding Rouge et Noir became the first European drag bike rider to break the 9 second barrier . Now well past the age when bus passes are handed out Keith continues to compete in sprints all over the country and delights and amazes all who see his aggressive riding style and low 9 second passes on the Parny Express ZX12R.
So with great delight the NSA would like to announce THE KEITH PARNELL TRIBUTE SPRINT..
The event will take place on the 20th and 21st of June at WESTON ZOYLAND AIRFIELD near Bridgwater, Somerset.
Come and be part of this great event.
Day entry for competitors will be available on both days just bring your bike Full or zip together 2 piece leathers .ACU approved helmet. gloves and riding boots .. And give it a go
Entry fee is £55 for one day or £75 for two to include NSA day membership and ACU licence. Spectators have FREE entry!
More info at www.sprinting.org.uk
19/05/2009: Round 3 and 4 Entry Deadline Approaching
The closing date for Round 3 is the 22nd May.
The closing date for Round 4 is the 5th June. PLEASE NOTE: There will be no electricity available at this Round 4 event, so make other plans!
19/05/2009: 2009 Round 2 - NAST at SCR
NAST Round 2 at SCR 16th/17th May 2009
This was a fairly small meeting, with only NAST Top Gas, Street ET, and Junior Drag Bike racing with a permit.
There where also some NSA members having a play, and a RWYB, so we had plenty of space in the pits.
I was very pleased to see 9 Top Gas, and 15 Street ET, well done to all of you a good turn out.
Saturday
The weather wasn’t good, with high winds and rain showers, but we did get a qualifying round in, and what a round it was!
I went against Dave Jones, and while I was still trying to find 6th gear Dave was avoiding a pheasant that walked across the finish line!
Chris Mott had a real close look at the armco and most of the track. Robbie Dobbie had front brake failure, Andy ‘Soapy’ Watson went on the full stage lights. Little Joe had a massive tank slapper from mid track to the finish line, you couldn’t make it up, but no one got hurt which is the main thing, not even the pheasant (stupid birds).
We had 3 new NAST racers, Martin Holgate in Top Gas with his beautiful Harley Sportster (now there is a bike for the mint award). Martin got two of his observed runs completed through the weekend, and in Street ET Phil Steele riding Dave Massam’s Buell, and the lovely Bev riding her new Triumph.
Most of you will know Bev as the Marshal working at the end of the fire up road, but now she has done her observed runs, and is a NAST Street racer! Well done girl!
We held our Saturday night NAST site meeting in NAST HQ, what a good meeting it was, lots of input, news, one-liners (thanks Neil) after that the sun came out it was a lovely summer evening.
Sunday
It was really nice at 6 o’clock sunny no wind clear sky, but it did go down hill for the rest of the day.
It was agreed we would run one more qualifying round, which we did at approximately 1250 ish. There where a few racers who did not manage to qualify on Saturday, Brian Udall being one of them, unfortunately due to a flat battery. Brian did a good run only to encounter a pheasant on the finish line, now I don’t know if its the same one that Dave Jones nearly hit, or a different one. Again, what can you say: Stupid birds!
With the elimination ladders all done, a time set for round 1, it rained, and rained and kept raining. At around 3pm that day the meeting was called off, game (no pun intended) over! Who knows, maybe the evil pheasant’s got it the way they wanted it!!
I would like to thank all of the staff at SCR for such hard work, and trying to get us down the track. Having a radio so that we could keep in touch with race control was a top idea, and that worked really well! We will be having one next time.
Well done to Ian Felstead who was the no 1 qualifier in Street ET on his GPZ 500, and I was very pleased with being no 1 in Top Gas.
I was thinking as I drove into Stratford in the sunshine, what a good time we all had, and how happy every one was, despite the weather. Still onwards and up wards, round 3 at Stanta Pod Summer Nationals in June. Don’t forget boys and girls that this Friday is the deadline for your entry forms to be in!
12/05/2009: 2009 Insane Motorcycles Junior Drag Bike Championship
The junior drag bikers started their season at the Springspeed festival, Shakespeare County Raceway, and already the racing is very close. 2008 Champion Giselle Moor was missing from this first round, and Scott Collier, Jordon Bissell, Brett Cordelle and Joe Dear were joined by rookie Luke Argyle in what turned out to be an incredibly close round. Jordon lead the qualifying ladder from session one when he ran a 10.266 on his 10.20 dial in, and Brett ran a 11.066 on his 11.00 dial in. Jordan took the number one spot due to his quicker reaction time, and Scott Collier was third until session four when Scott ran 9.885 on his 9.850 dial in. Joe Dear ran 11.56 on his 11.32 dial, with Luke running into the fifteen second bracket, learning to get to grips with his new bike. Plenty more to come there.
In round one Scott had a bye run and Jordon was up against Luke but disaster for Luke when he couldn’t hold his bike on the line and it crept forward and red lit him, so Jordon taking the win, Brett was set to race Joe, but Joe failed to show and Brett took a bye into the next round.
Round two and Jordon had the bye run, running 10.0 on his 10.20 dial in, and Scott and Brett had to fight it out together, with Scott breaking out of his 9.80 dial after rolling off and braking, and running 9.76, with Brett running through at 11.25 on his 11.10 dial in.
Unfortunately the meeting had to end there due to the time, so no finals were run.
We are pleased to announce that over the weekend a deal was struck with Nick Argyle of Insane Motorcycles, and he is sponsoring the 2009 Junior Drag Bike Championship, so many thanks to him for his interest and support. Insane Motorcycles build custom bikes and choppers to individual design, and can be reached on 01386 41164.
We are having a range of T-shirts and hats designed which will be for sale in the near future, perfect gifts for any child who is interested in drag racing.
The points for Junior Drag Bike after round one stand as follows:
| Number |
Name |
Points |
| JB4 |
Jordon Bissell |
340 |
| JB3 |
Brett Cordelle |
330 |
| JB2 |
Scott Collier |
320 |
| JB5 |
Joe Dear |
220 |
| JB10 |
Luke Argyle |
210 |
Round two of the Junior Drag Bike Championship will be held this weekend 16/17th May at Shakespeare County Raceway, with reigning champion Giselle Moor back in the pack to stir it up with the boys. They are all keen to achieve the coveted JB1 plate, its going to be very close.
As always thank you to Julie and Jerry and all the team at Shakespeare County Raceway for their support and help with this fantastic class. With more bikes being built as we speak and new riders in the pipeline, we think the next couple of years are going to be great for JDB. For any information on junior drag bike racing, please contact us on 01246 570304 or look at our website www.juniordragbike.co.uk. created and maintained by Wizzard Technical Designs, and is due to be fully functioning within the next two weeks so keep an eye on it.
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