Race/trackday/road pics.. lets see em!!

[Alone]

Congratulations Meyer!!! Fantastic work mate!!

[Meyer#12]

WINNER! FANTASTIC! 
Well done indeed Meyer, proud of you mate! GREAT JOB!

What happened on the initial start before they red flagged the race; lap 3 I think it was? Did matey(#1) crash? It looked like he was pushing really hard at the time, maybe too hard.

Hawk.

Yeah William Svärd crashed in a pretty fast place and landed in the wall. He didn't move and he have been taking to hospital for check up and he had some trouble breathing. Haven't heard from him or the guy with him since, so hopefully he will be fine.

And thanks a lot guys!!! Was a wonderful comeback! Didn't have to push too hard and felt really comfortable back on the bike. Still 1 sec off my own PB from 2012 (47,6s) so a bit more to come if needed

Edit: William Svärd, Daniel Persson and Daniel Plakidis is also from same team.

Daniel is leading championship but had a half-seize of his engine and crashed because it locked the rear (2-stroke).

[Napalm Nick]

Well all the best to the poor lad lets hope nothing too serious.

I am extremely happy for your win Meyer dood i have been grinning all day!
Is there a Race 2 to come?

Edit: ah yes same schedule for tomorrow good luck!

[Warlock]

Very nice Meyer!   
gogogo m8 !!

[Joeski]

Awesome Meyer, nice work mate!! 

[Meyer#12]

Short info, more will come after work.

Race got cancelled at sunday due to Heavy rain and oil on the track and BIG crash in 600cc before we had to go out.

So to sum up the weekend in.

Friday: good day with 3 practices of 20min to get back into riding.

Saturday: qualified 4th, pretty happy, felt like i had a little more pace but was on quite old tyres and race was just perfect after the restart and i won doing steady, but not quick, wasn't pushing at all since it was low paced race from the rest.

Sunday: Qualifying was with wet tyres on drying track, had it been world championship i would have went out on slicks, was not going strategic as i thought it would be more worth it getting more fast laps in than saving tyres and slam in a few good laps at the end. Qualified 4th.

No race sunday due to the big crash and oil on track. 

[Warlock]

Good job Meyer 

Hope the best for future racing m8, and some luck with sponsors , every rider needs money!

[Boerenlater]

During the time you were forced to abstain from racing, how much of a help was GP Bikes in preserving your skills?

[Meyer#12]

During the time you were forced to abstain from racing, how much of a help was GP Bikes in preserving your skills?

Actually not too much of a help in the riding. You of course keep lines fresh, but beside that, it is two very different things. Using a controller can't really keep the way you have to use your body and the "braveness" to brake late and open throttle early in the body.

The thing GPB have helped me with it keeping a few of the abstinences at bay, but beside that nothing can compare to actually riding the bike

[Joeski]

During the time you were forced to abstain from racing, how much of a help was GP Bikes in preserving your skills?

Actually not too much of a help in the riding. You of course keep lines fresh, but beside that, it is two very different things. Using a controller can't really keep the way you have to use your body and the "braveness" to brake late and open throttle early in the body.

The thing GPB have helped me with it keeping a few of the abstinences at bay, but beside that nothing can compare to actually riding the bike

Just to add to this...I imagine car simulators are quite effective for training/learning as the driver is in a fixed position and you just need to replicate the moving parts - steering wheel, pedals, shifter etc in order to recreate a relatively realistic experience. With a motorbike sim you can replicate the same controls, however like Meyer says, a massive factor in controlling a motorbike is how you move around on the bike, and how far your brain will allow you to push to the limits...so other things come into play such as rider fitness/size/limberness etc.

I think the only place where GPB will help in that respect is learning a new track and which way to leave the pits lol

[Joeski]

I was down at Donington the other day for a cheeky trackday...not the best of days as my oil filter blew off causing me to miss half the sessions replacing tyres and generally sorting the bike out to run again, so by the time I got back out on track it was the end of the day. Pretty gutted as i'd been looking forward to working on suspension settings as well as sorting out some body positioning, but none of that happened due to missed tracktime but hey ho that's one of the joy of bikes, right? Shaved a couple of seconds off my best from 2012 but I was really hoping to be down in the low 40's before the day started. Anyway, thought you might like to see one of my half decent laps in the last session, there's plenty of places to pick up time so I'm twitching to get back there!

http://www.youtube.com/v/CC8QJsOguhg&feature

[Hawk]

Nice riding Joeski, looks great fun! Love Donington! 

[Napalm Nick]

Brilliant! 

[tchemi]

Do you ride in 1st p or in 3rd p 

[Warlock]

3rd P with a selfie stick