Given the boring weekend we had at Morgan Park, here is a really cool video I made last week. It has my fastest lap from MacPark over layed with dashboard data from my datalogger. Its cool!!
Follow Phill Gray (Goose) and Mike King from Beta Engineering as they renew and race a classic Bimota db1
Wednesday 15 June 2011
Tuesday 14 June 2011
Morgan Park: round 3 national BEARS Challange. Sundays results....
Sunday dawned wet, and stayed that way. We got out for practice and got the bike around on a soaking track. Not a lot of fun, and I was pretty sure that after seven laps we'd all have hypothermia.
The F1 and F2 boys got out for a crusie around, with Brett Chambers taking a long slow fall in turn two, that left him puzzelled as to how he'd managed it. Racing got away on time, and the sidecars went out for a play. Race two saw the pre-moderns, and post classics have a splash. Result, two riders falling in the second turn only to remount and carry on. Sam Mouldon got away to a handy lead only to crash around the back of the track, bringing out the red flags. Sam was unhurt apparently, but I think they decided that given it took 20 minutes to find him and he nearly drowned that they'd better think about the conditions....
Waiting, waiting.... Finally at 11am they made a call to brief us. They forecast was showing some clearing showers, so we might get on if the rain lifted. Two hours later at 1230 they finally pulled the pin and cancelled the meeting. Motorcycle Sportsmen said they would attempt to rerun the event at a later date, with reduced entry fees. But I don't think the BEARS will be coming back this way in 2011.
The F1 and F2 boys got out for a crusie around, with Brett Chambers taking a long slow fall in turn two, that left him puzzelled as to how he'd managed it. Racing got away on time, and the sidecars went out for a play. Race two saw the pre-moderns, and post classics have a splash. Result, two riders falling in the second turn only to remount and carry on. Sam Mouldon got away to a handy lead only to crash around the back of the track, bringing out the red flags. Sam was unhurt apparently, but I think they decided that given it took 20 minutes to find him and he nearly drowned that they'd better think about the conditions....
Waiting, waiting.... Finally at 11am they made a call to brief us. They forecast was showing some clearing showers, so we might get on if the rain lifted. Two hours later at 1230 they finally pulled the pin and cancelled the meeting. Motorcycle Sportsmen said they would attempt to rerun the event at a later date, with reduced entry fees. But I don't think the BEARS will be coming back this way in 2011.
Saturday 11 June 2011
Morgan Park: round 3 national BEARS Challange. Saturdays results
Another cold day in Queenslands granite region today. Not as cold as yesterday thankfully.
Q1 - 4 laps, fastest 1:29.140
I was pretty happy with this result given we were first out at 9am. The track felt like it had lost a bit of grip from yesterday which is to be expected I guess. My time put me second, behind local Scott Rinaldis on his awesome 944 Ducati F1. Scott did a 1:26.6! Holy cold track goose that's quick!
Q2 - 7 laps, fastest time 1.27.6
I got a bit smarter this session and hooked on the back of a local rider. John Murray (F3 Ducati 748). John gave me a great tow and I uncorked my new PB on lap 2. This put me second on the grid behind Scott Rinaldis.
Race 1. Best lap 1.27.655
I did not get the best launch with both Murray and Rinaldis getting away better. John Newton also got a good start. I push past Rinaldis into turn one, only to find Newton taking me around the outside at turn two! Bugger. On the brakes into gum tree I could not keep out Rinaldis either. We carried on playing for a lap, Rinaldis passes Murray. On lap two I get Newton at the end of the straight on my fastest lap of the weekend. 1:27.659. For some strange reason I was unable to close the gap to Murray, consistently missing my turn in at gum tree, turn three and seven. Very annoying. On the final lap I over cooked it I to guntree and Newron nabbed me into turn six. Good move. I chased hard but could not catch themfor third.
Result: outright 4th, F3 4th.
The weather forcast for tomorrow is not good. Hopefully we will get some dry races in, so I can go faster!
Q1 - 4 laps, fastest 1:29.140
I was pretty happy with this result given we were first out at 9am. The track felt like it had lost a bit of grip from yesterday which is to be expected I guess. My time put me second, behind local Scott Rinaldis on his awesome 944 Ducati F1. Scott did a 1:26.6! Holy cold track goose that's quick!
Q2 - 7 laps, fastest time 1.27.6
I got a bit smarter this session and hooked on the back of a local rider. John Murray (F3 Ducati 748). John gave me a great tow and I uncorked my new PB on lap 2. This put me second on the grid behind Scott Rinaldis.
Race 1. Best lap 1.27.655
I did not get the best launch with both Murray and Rinaldis getting away better. John Newton also got a good start. I push past Rinaldis into turn one, only to find Newton taking me around the outside at turn two! Bugger. On the brakes into gum tree I could not keep out Rinaldis either. We carried on playing for a lap, Rinaldis passes Murray. On lap two I get Newton at the end of the straight on my fastest lap of the weekend. 1:27.659. For some strange reason I was unable to close the gap to Murray, consistently missing my turn in at gum tree, turn three and seven. Very annoying. On the final lap I over cooked it I to guntree and Newron nabbed me into turn six. Good move. I chased hard but could not catch themfor third.
Result: outright 4th, F3 4th.
The weather forcast for tomorrow is not good. Hopefully we will get some dry races in, so I can go faster!
Morgan park round 3 national BEARS challenge: Friday practice
It's cold up here at Warick, Queensland. -2 in fact. A new track due to extensions from last year. Bumpy as all hell! Thus place makes MacPark look like a golf course.
Best time today was a 1.28.987, got 38 laps in with some minor suspension changes to try and cope with the bumps.
Rain is forecast for the weekend! Yay!
Best time today was a 1.28.987, got 38 laps in with some minor suspension changes to try and cope with the bumps.
Rain is forecast for the weekend! Yay!
Saturday 4 June 2011
Dyno day 3!
With only a week to the next round of the nationals I visited the dyno again today. This time I was testing some coils kindly lent to me by Ross Proctor. Thanks Ross.
What I thought would be a simple fitting job turned into a two hour effort as the plugs on my loom were not the same. Seems Duacti have changed the coils from DS1000 to HM1100. Thanks guys!
Still it ran up okay. The misfire was still there. Bugger! But we have got further into the issue. Harley at RB Imports was running the dyno and we tried moving the inductive pick up for the RPM feed to the dyno between the front and rear coils on two separate runs. This showed the front pot losing some spark in the problem zone. The rear cylinder was totally gone in the same zone. No spark!
Conclusion: The coil drivers in the ECU are not working properly.
Now of to get my DP ECU security codes disabled!
What I thought would be a simple fitting job turned into a two hour effort as the plugs on my loom were not the same. Seems Duacti have changed the coils from DS1000 to HM1100. Thanks guys!
Still it ran up okay. The misfire was still there. Bugger! But we have got further into the issue. Harley at RB Imports was running the dyno and we tried moving the inductive pick up for the RPM feed to the dyno between the front and rear coils on two separate runs. This showed the front pot losing some spark in the problem zone. The rear cylinder was totally gone in the same zone. No spark!
Conclusion: The coil drivers in the ECU are not working properly.
Now of to get my DP ECU security codes disabled!
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