Re: Honda NC30 race bike class/series??
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 10:12 am
Thanks again matey!
Regards.
Cal
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Honda NC30 race bike class/series??
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Re: Honda NC30 race bike class/series??
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 5:45 pm
Re: Honda NC30 race bike class/series??
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 7:12 pm
Also do you need a V5 and a frame no. for a race bike? Or will any NC frame do, as its only for track use!?
Regards.
Cal
Regards.
Cal
Re: Honda NC30 race bike class/series??
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 9:37 pm
Any frame as long as the frame number is unaltered.Cal Walker wrote:Also do you need a V5 and a frame no. for a race bike? Or will any NC frame do, as its only for track use!?
Regards.
Cal
I'd get the V5 anyway just so you don't run into problems with the police. Avoid those ones on eBay at the moment that are track frames with the numbers 'removed'
Re: Honda NC30 race bike class/series??
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 11:52 pm
Wow that's pricy!28hodge wrote:Ok rough example, as depending on the circuit the entry alters.
Lets take silverstone, its one of the more expensive round.
Entry - £285 (this includes use of the garages in the new wing, at other rounds the garages are £60 shared between 4 so £15 each)
Transponder - i own mine but to hire for the weekend is £20
For that you get a 15 min quali, then two 6 lap races on saturday, then a 3 lap morning warm up (which i never bother doing) and two 9 lap races on the sunday. So in total i did 36 laps over the weekend.
(this isn't technically true as late on sunday afternoon the sidecars had a blow up and spread oil the entire way round the circuit, so the meeting was abandoned halfway through the final block of racing. Bemsee have rescheduled those lost races over the remaining rounds so that we get our lost race. So this weeken at Oulton park which is only a one day event i now have 3 races rather then only 2.)
So in total the my entry cost £285 for 36 laps (if you needed to hire a transponder it'd be another £20)
Thats £7.91 a lap, which doesn't include the cost of fuel for the van and bike, or the tyres food etc etc.
Basically i work on £500 per weekend racing, and thats using scrubs rather than new tyres and not doing the test day on a friday, that would be another £185 ish and only gives you an extra 4 20min sessions.
Its all worth it and i am not complaining about the tracktime i get in the slightest, I think Bemsee do a very good job, and have the deepest grid of F400's which is what i am more interested in. Also if i manage to get an entry into another class the fee for entering that is only £50 so i can double my tracktime for only an extra £50.
Then i'd get 72 laps for £335 so £4.65 a lap.
This weekend at Oulton i have 5 races in a single day as i am entered into a 2nd class and i have the re run race from silverstone.
So here in NZ for my local track in a club round race entry is $50 (25 pound), Transponder if you don't own one is $15 (7pound). For that you get 1 days racing which is 1 warm up session/qualifying of 15mins and 4 rounds of racing, 6 laps per race. You can cross enter on two bikes for no extra charge too so you can get multiple races in per round. For example I raced with a different club recently who only managed 2 rounds due to crashes etc. But as I was racing 2 bikes in 3 races per round I got 6 races in.
Not all tracks are this cheap but you are looking at around $50-$150 race entry for club series. Our National champ rounds costs a bit more as they are over 3 days but that's a different cup of tea.
All up for a weekend I spend around $150 including race license, fuel, food etc.
That said I am not racing at a track like Silverstone, but Ruapuna my local track is hellish fun, here's a video of me racing there on a bucket racer (FXR150 with 125gp slicks and all the weight taken off her)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYq1SfM7Fw4
Sorry for the thread high jack, but it is kinda on topic
