Rowrah - May 1999

Saturday 1st May 1999
The bike worked well straight away, changes made over the winter were definitely an improvement. We altered main jet to see if any advantage could be made but on the whole these changes had very little effect.

Sunday 2nd May 1999
Electronic tags were to be used for the first time, this made the whole process of lap scoring much simpler and the everything seamed to become more 'professional'. In the warm up before the 6 hour race the bike started playing up! Typical. We altered the bike frantically but we were not happy, we didn't want to destroy an engine, the mixture was weak, up jetting didn't richern the mixture, there must have been an air leak somewhere. We ran for half an hour but then decided to spend the day getting ready for tomorrow's 4 hour race. We swapped the engine and started setting the bike up, by the end of the 6 hour race we'd improved the lap times from 1m 17s down to 1m 8s and we felt confident that the bike would stay reliable. All in all we did 155 laps, this wasn't enough to score points but we had kept the show on the road and still had the 4 hour race to look forward to,
Monday 3rd May 1999

A much better race. The bike ran fine all day and we didn't fall off or damage the bike. We managed 184 laps which made us 11th in class one scoring 9 points! Lap times were between 1m 8s and 1m 11s.

Overall we were 20th in the championship after Rowrah and we'd had a great weekend.