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THUNDERSPORT GB 2020 CHAMPIONSHIP
OULTON PARK 26th September 2020 OFFICIALS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & Covid-19 Notes
Clerk of the Course Dave Stewart Deputy Clerk of the Course Paul Matthews Race Secretary Bernadette Stewart Chief Technical Officer Stuart Bailey Chief Sound Inspector Rodger Wadey Chief Startline Phil Page Assembly Area Chief Peter Copland Incident Officer Kyle Tansley Medical Officers Steve Ready, Ellen Rawlinson Naveem Kangocar Ambulance Services Inter County Paramedic Peak Medicare Commentators John Ward / Keith Roisetter Circuit Manager Jon Rush
Permanent Course Licence No. THUNDERSPORT GB (Affiliated to the NOTICE: ACU 004 ACU as Club Thundersport Ltd and MOTOR SPORTS CAN BE ACU Permit No. Thundersport Midlands) DANGEROUS! This meeting is held under a European ACU 58291 Despite the organisers taking all Flags and other signals used at this OPEN Road Race Permit, complying reasonable precautions, unavoidable meetingare in accordance with the with the National Sporting Code and the accidents can happen. Please comply with details shown in the ACU Handbook Standing Regulations for Road Races of all instructions of marshals and notices the ACU, the Supplementary Regulations of and remain in permitted areas only. the above organisation, and in accordance (a copy of which is available for inspection in the Race Administration). THEY ARE CONCERNED WITH YOUR with the ACU / FIM Environmental Code. SAFETY RACE DAY TIMETABLE SATURDAY 26th September 2020
8.30am 15 minutes Qualifying GP3-Thundersport Superteens & GP2 Cup
8.48am 15 minutes Qualifying Thundersport 500 Elite, Sportsman & Seniors
9.06am 15 minutes Qualifying Thundersport 600 Sportsman Elite
9.24am 15 minutes Qualifying Golden Era Supersport / Steelsport
9.42am 15 minutes Qualifying Thundersport GP1 Sportsman & Elite
10.00am 15 minutes Qualifying GP2-Supertwins/Stocktwins & Thundersport 500 Freshman
10.18am 15 minutes Qualifying Pre-National 600 Sport & Freshman
10.36am 15 minutes Qualifying Golden Era Superbike & GP1 Classic/Cup
10.56am Race 1 GP3-Thundersport Superteens & GP2 Cup 8 Laps (23 miles)
11.19am Race 2 Thundersport 500 Elite, Sportsman & Seniors 8 Laps (23 miles)
11.42am Race 3 Thundersport 600 Sportsman Elite 8 Laps (23 miles)
12.05pm Race 4 Golden Era Supersport / Steelsport 8 Laps (23 miles)
12.28pm Race 5 Thundersport GP1 Sportsman & Elite 8 Laps (23 miles)
12.51pm Race 6 GP2-Super/Stocktwins & Thundersport 500 FM 8 Laps (23 miles)
1.14pm Race 7 Pre-National 600 Sport & Freshman 8 Laps (23 miles)
Lunch Break
2.10pm Race 8 Golden Era Superbike & GP1 Classic/Cup 8 Laps (23 miles)
2.33pm Race 9 GP3-Thundersport Superteens & GP2 Cup 8 Laps (23 miles)
2.56pm Race 10 Thundersport 500 Elite, Sportsman & Seniors 8 Laps (23 miles)
3.19pm Race 11 Thundersport 600 Sportsman Elite 8 Laps (23 miles)
3.42pm Race 12 Golden Era Supersport / Steelsport 8 Laps (23 miles) Thundersport GP1 Sportsman & Elite 4.05pm Race 13 8 Laps (23 miles) (Adam Boyle Trophy) 4.28pm Race 14 GP2-Super/Stocktwins & Thundersport 500 FM 8 Laps (23 miles)
4.51pm Race 15 Pre-National 600 Sport & Freshman 8 Laps (23 miles)
5.14pm Race 16 Golden Era Superbike & GP1 Classic/Cup 8 Laps (23 miles)
5.37pm Race 17 GB Racing British Military Inter Services 8 Laps (23 miles)
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The DelicaTe SounD oF WORDS: DaveT Stewart hunDeR ThaT WaS The name Of an icOnic album by Pink flOyD RecORDeD On vinyl in 1988 – yeS bOyS vinyl, lOng befORe mP3 PlayeRS OR i-PODS WeRe even ThOughT Of. i’m SuRe mOST Of The gOlDen eRa SuPeRbike RiDeRS Will jOin me in highly RecOmmenDing iT, buT ThaT’S nOT The POinT Of ThiS aRTicle. Noise is in danger of killing our sport and using other illegal parts. We all just want a to. If we can demonstrate irrefutably that we none of us have taken it seriously enough fair playing field don’t we? are operating 100% within the regulations until very recently. Currently we have a fairly One of the tracks from “The Delicate Sound laid down in the handbook, I believe we can easy set of noise regulations to conform to of Thunder” was called “A Momentary Lapse defend our rights far more effectively and for anything this side of a full blown Moto GP of Reason” and trying to cheat your way robustly. It is the weakness of the few that bike and I know for an absolute fact that an around the problem is exactly that. I’m sure is causing the damage for the many. In this RCV213 Honda could be effectively silenced most fair minded and sportsmanlike riders instance the expression “If you aren’t a part to 105Dba if the engineers actually wanted would not even consider doing it, if they had of the solution, then you are a part of the to do so. So there is no reason why any of fully considered the implications. problem” is so apt that it’s almost painful. the machines we race can not make the Having been around racing for over 30 In order to help us enforce this, post race noise limit and stay there. The problems we years, I think I know pretty much all of noise testing will now become far more are facing – losing venues, restrictions on the different shady ways to get a machine common and the penalty for failing the post testing, outside enforcement notices – are all through a standard noise test before racing. race noise test will be disqualification. This making our track time more expensive and This is the area that is providing the bullets has actually always been the case according it’s mainly our own fault. We can all simply the NIMBYs are hitting us with. Up until to the regulations, but many riders are blame the NIMBYs for taking pot shots at us recently, venues and organisers have relied unaware of it. whenever possible if we want, but it is us that heavily when defending noise complaints The closing track on that album was are providing the bullets. We must step up to by producing a technical inspection sheet “Comfortably Numb” which is what a lot of the plate and stick to the noise regulations as that shows that every machine has passed people seem to be at the moment regarding laid down in the ACU Handbook if we wish to a static noise test before competing. That the seriousness of this issue. Please help us continue racing unmolested. approach is almost entirely useless in to help you all and become a part of the fight Too many people are taking the view that trying to defend noise abatement cases. back against those that wish to stop our sport once the noise test has been conducted, The fact that machines complied with the otherwise “The Delicate Sound of Thunder” we can do whatever we like to the bike and regulations before competing is about as will be a thing of the past. shelter behind the fact that we have passed much use as a chocolate teapot when the the mandatory control. Before you do that, complainants have noise recordings of the please consider the following:- actual track activity Why do you want to remove the baffle or that prove non- whatever device you used to pass the test? compliance in actual There is no shortage of space on modern bikes for If it is because you think the bike is more races. Continued larger silencers... powerful with less silencing, you should compliance consider yourself as a cheat in exactly the throughout the event same manner that you might look at a rider is vital. with an illegal engine. You are seeking to gain None of the an unfair advantage over other riders who various fudges are are staying within the rules, so it’s exactly helping our cause, as the same thing. A win gained by cheating it is the actual noise is worthless and those that do it should be pollution we produce regarded with the same disdain as riders that people object LOST IN TIME... - - Great Circuits, Clubs and Series.. from Crystal Palace, to Southern 67 and the great Marlboro Clubmans Championships.... How did we let all of those great things go?
The same fate has befallen many great racing clubs down the years. The wonderful old Southern 67, Brands Racing Committee, Pegasus MCC, Clubmans Racing and Kent Racing Combine clubs used to run fantastic events that had a real feel good factor to them. The King of Brands, The Race of the South, The Lord of Lydden, The Powerbike Trophy and the Race of Aces all used to attract top line racers who competed alongside the best Clubmen of the day, sometimes with surprising results. Todays top line riders are often prevented from competing in non- The haunting Reims grandstand and pits stand silent next to the D27! championship events by team contracts that have killed off those Every now and again, usually fuelled by Park and Cadwell Park can match the iconic meetings. a lack of racing and a surplus of beer, attraction of The Palace. With all of those events you always left we get around to asking the age old How could they have let it disappear? the circuit with that warm exhausted question “Whatever happened to....???” I know that even today a small group feeling that told you that you’d just Sometimes it’s about classic racing of enthusiasts do keep the history at had a great days racing and been circuits like Reims, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace going with an annual a part of something very special. Brooklands or Goodwood. Other times classic car sprint event, but it’s not quite Those five clubs and numerous others it might be about great riders who never the same as real bike racing. have dropped out of Road Racing in quite made it, or big ideas that fizzled Goodwood also has a special place in recent times and been lost in time - out. motorsport with The Goodwood Festival probably forever. In some instances Before the advent of Smartphones of Speed and The Revival, which are it is because it is now such a cash that conversation could have gone both great events, but I still hanker for hungry business and the returns on on all night and it would undoubtedly the sights and sounds of modern racing your investment are minimal - in others have taken off at a tangent at some bikes hammering around the Sussex the key volunteers that made it happen stage. Inevitably in the modern world countryside. Race tracks need current became too old or failed to move on “Google Search” on someones phone racing bikes to really flick the right with the times. The days of a small kills off that conversation by providing switches for me and as nice as nostalgic group of enthusiasts taking a chance pictures and historical records of when, revivals are, they aren’t real racing. on launching a new road race club are how and sometimes even why things disappeared. I have never been able to see myself though why somewhere wonderful and charismatic like Crystal Palace was let go, when Silverstone not only survived, but had literally millions thrown at it over the decades. I don’t think anyone realised what we were losing until it was way too late to prevent it. In my own mind, no amount of paddock infrastructure, flash garages or hospitality suites can overcome the thrill of an interesting, challenging and moreover - beautiful circuit. In modern terms only Oulton Park, Donington Crystal Palace was absolutely awesome! We put the money in up front every it was a great idea. The thrust of it was year with absolutely no guarantees that to have properly promoted meetings anyone is going to turn up. that catered for the best riders in the Now that’s commitment! country that had never scored a British The car and the motorcycle club at Championship point. Aintree are well established, with For whatever reason, it just didn’t grasp excellent track records stretching back the imagination of the riders it was many decades. Their credit ratings will aimed at and it lasted just one season. be pretty good. This was a lost opportunity that was The leaders of the organisations at stifled mainly by riders and their parents Bikes at the Palace Aintree may need to have the courage rushing to get to the top level before long gone and only a few of us mad to embrace short term debt in order to they were really ready. This is very fools that have the road racing drug preserve this iconic venue for future common still today and I often look at thrumming through our veins are crazy generations of both motorcycle and the BSB timesheets thinking how much enough to risk everything on making it motor car racers & enthusiasts. better off some of the riders would have happen. Sometimes things are really simple, been if they had taken a year or so extra The days of being able to hire just like the Nike slogan – Just Do It! to ensure they had the pace before Snetterton, Cadwell Park or Mallory LOST IDEAS! making the jump. Park for £2,000.- a day are now 30 Some other things that seem to have These riders never do much, as they plus years behind us and it is highly been lost in time, include ideas, just end up disheartened and broke, unlikely that any of those old clubs will championships and even whole not because they didn’t have the basic ever re-enter the market, as they have sporting disciplines. skills, but because they didn’t have the neither the funds, the skilled personnel Probably the series most often still patience. or the sheer willpower to do so. (Today talked about is the old Marlboro In my own mind though, the biggest you would need to multiply that hire figure Clubmans Championship of the 1980s opportunity that was missed was by ten to even come close). which even 35 years later is still held the prospect of a well promoted Soul-less commercialism has in a lot in high esteem. It produced not only and co-ordinated British Supermoto of instances taken the place of hard great racing, but was the genuine step Championship. working volunteers contributing to that riders took to move on to greater This mixed discipline has produced the sport they love. Businesses can’t things. Everyone wanted to do it and some great riders and the sport had understand that it is that simple act of getting all of the up and coming riders a massive opportunity to become a giving that creates the community feel in the same place, at the same time genuine mainstream sport between and a sense of being part of a living produced some season long battles 2003 and 2006, but too many people entity. that then continued into the ACU Heat tried to pull it in different directions and AINTREE ANGST! Supercup in the following years (the it missed that window of opportunity. The latest chapter in this sorry tale now Heat Supercup was the original BSB Although it does still exist, it is very appears to be a venue that draws so Championship). niche market and unless you are directly many parallels with my beloved Crystal The Marlboro Clubmans only lasted 3 involved in it, it is almost invisible. Palace that it pains me to watch it years and was then replaced by the If you want to look at the skill sets happen. ACU Clubmans Championship, which it helps riders develop though, just Aintree was once the home of the never really had the same pazzaz as look at a few of the riders who have British F1 Grand Prix and is steeped its predecessor. That limped along until made the crossover to Road Racing - in the history of racing like few other 1999 and then faded away. Jean-Michel Bayle, Stefan Chambon, venues worldwide. It shares the Now various poorly supported grids at Thierry van den Bosch and Christian unusual feature of being actually within random clubs carry the ACU badge, Iddon. Supermoto could have been the the boundaries of a major cultural but it is absolutely meaningless and breeding ground for youth talent too, but city with venues like Crystal Palace, really indicates a lack of ideas coming sadly that opportunity has also been lost Misano and Monte Carlo, yet it seems out of ACU House and the clubs in time. to be on the very edge of extinction themselves. Where is the leadership in racing due to the lack of a few quid. Also in the early 1990s a new idea was today? And it IS just a few quid in motorsport indroduced called the UK Riders Cup, What has become of the vision terms, the figure published is £356,000 which should really have caught on as and the innovative ideas?..... to sort out the whole thing, which is peanuts in the business we operate in. To put that in perspective, the Thundersport GB event at Donington Park in July cost £104,600 to put on and that was just one event out of the nine we run each season. Thundersport GB is basically just me & Syd, 2 ordinary blokes with only the support of our wives, Bernadette & Janet, to rely on. Financially in comparison we are minnows, but we believe in our project and have always been willing to put everything on the line in order to make it happen. Crystal Palace was absolutely awesome! Are we about to let Aintree go the way of Crystal Palace? Now we all know there are some really BAD situations you couldTrack find yourself Insurance in......
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GP3-SUPERTEENS THUNDERSPORT JUNIOR CUP 1 Finley Arscott 160 1 Finley Arscott 143 2 Joe Howard 114 2 Joe Howard 100 3 Scott McCrory 99 3 Lynden Leatherland 86 4 Lewis Jones (ktm) 90 4 Lewis Jones (ktm) 81 5 George Hopper 77 5 Scott McCrory 77 6 Katie Hand 70 6 George Hopper 67 7 Matthew Rutter 68 7 Christian Smith 53 8 Kier Armstrong 59 8 Lewis Jones (kaw) 50 9 Alex Duncan 53 9 Kieran Smith 50 10 Harris Beech 46 10 Zak Shelton 44
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