BEARS Australia 2024
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markQLD
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Round 5 is go October 12-13 Eastern Creek, Sydney
With The Mule and Veloce just fitted with their freshly ground output gears.
After the crap weather down at Rd4 Phillip Island, let's hope the wets stay packed away, and another maximum points are achieved.
All the best for Red and Matt and team.
With The Mule and Veloce just fitted with their freshly ground output gears.
After the crap weather down at Rd4 Phillip Island, let's hope the wets stay packed away, and another maximum points are achieved.
All the best for Red and Matt and team.
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piranha-bro2
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Might not get the hail and the biting wind straight off Bass Strait, but according to the BOM chance of some precipitation in Sydney on all three days.
I'm sure Team Redax will acquit themselves admirably, regardless of the weather. Bon courage to all!
I'm sure Team Redax will acquit themselves admirably, regardless of the weather. Bon courage to all!
Saturday afternoon, 2 races done, 2nd overall and 1st in F4 class for both races
Slipper clutch working really well, lowered our own Class track record by 1.2 seconds which is awesome
Took us 5 years to break the Track record at Eastern Creek for F4 class and now well under the original record that stood for 12 years until we finally beat it two years ago
Mule is running great
F3 Class bike in front of us is a 1100 Ducati engine in a X60R Ducati frame with custom everything, real flash piece of kit
Great meeting so far but a couple of our race mates gone to hospital after crashing
Bugger
Slipper clutch working really well, lowered our own Class track record by 1.2 seconds which is awesome
Took us 5 years to break the Track record at Eastern Creek for F4 class and now well under the original record that stood for 12 years until we finally beat it two years ago
Mule is running great
F3 Class bike in front of us is a 1100 Ducati engine in a X60R Ducati frame with custom everything, real flash piece of kit
Great meeting so far but a couple of our race mates gone to hospital after crashing
Bugger
KERMIT1200
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Great to hear the racing going so well. All the best for the rest of weekend.
Andy
Andy
GregT
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- Christchurch NZ
134kg dry. Either your rider loses a leg or you reproduce everything steel in Ti and aluminium.
Or stay in F4.
piranha-bro2
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- Melbourne
That's a fantastic result, Red. Incredible drop in the class lap record. Sounds like the weather has been kind. All the best for tomoz.
Andy
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- Auckland, roughly
Great updates What do you attribute the biggest difference to, from your previous times, the wider tyre or the clutch?
What do you attribute the biggest difference to, from your previous times, the wider tyre or the clutch?
martymoose
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- Sydney, Australia
Well done to red and the team. Sorry to hear mark suffered from a warm up lap incident, speedy recovery.
By far the Slipper clutch, 100%Great updates
Listen to the Mule go off the long Eastern Creek straight at 239 klms/hr, going in to turn 1 Matt goes back to 4th and bike is just so settled
Does not have to wait for engine revs to drop, just boots it down into 4th and Clutch handles the RPM great
And sounds awesome
Need to work on gaining slightly less slip on a trailing or shut off throttle, need just a bit more engine braking
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piranha-bro2
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How did today's racing go, Red?
2 more races on Sunday, 1st race damp track on slicks, 5th overall, 1st in Class, last race 2nd overall, 1st in Class
ran under our old F4 Lap record but did not improve on Saturday afternoon time
Mule ran great all weekend, Veloce only did 3 laps on Friday practice to make certain she was good to go if needed
But she sat in the pits for the rest of the weekend after that
After giving away a 100 point lead to the opposition when we had 3 x DNS (broken foot) and 1 x DNF (blown engine), going to last round at Broadford next month we are now 6 points behind in the BEARs Formula 4 championship
ran under our old F4 Lap record but did not improve on Saturday afternoon time
Mule ran great all weekend, Veloce only did 3 laps on Friday practice to make certain she was good to go if needed
But she sat in the pits for the rest of the weekend after that
After giving away a 100 point lead to the opposition when we had 3 x DNS (broken foot) and 1 x DNF (blown engine), going to last round at Broadford next month we are now 6 points behind in the BEARs Formula 4 championship
piranha-bro2
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I'd call that a very successful weekend, Red. Dominant performance to come back close to ground zero - looking fwd to Broady. Who's sitting 6 points up - Fitzy?
markQLD
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- QLD Australia
Round 6 is go 16-17 November
Loaded the Redax girls next to Matt's BMW F1 Rocket for the trek south to Broadford VIC.
All the best to Red, Matt and crew.
I know the hospitality and support of the VIC club will be mega as always
One hopes for an enjoyable final round of the season.
Loaded the Redax girls next to Matt's BMW F1 Rocket for the trek south to Broadford VIC.
All the best to Red, Matt and crew.
I know the hospitality and support of the VIC club will be mega as always
One hopes for an enjoyable final round of the season.
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End of Friday track day at Broadford
Both bikes now have their Slipper Clutches installed and both working great
Mule with 43 tooth rear sprocket, Veloce with 42 tooth, both wheel standing at will
Mule did one 6 lap run this afternoon and ran 0.64 secs off our class lap record
On track days we are normally 2-3 seconds off the lap record so fairly confident to break that tomorrow
Tyres changed on both bikes and now just waiting for scrutineering to be done
Weather is great but Sunday morning may be a bit wet
Happy as
Both bikes now have their Slipper Clutches installed and both working great
Mule with 43 tooth rear sprocket, Veloce with 42 tooth, both wheel standing at will
Mule did one 6 lap run this afternoon and ran 0.64 secs off our class lap record
On track days we are normally 2-3 seconds off the lap record so fairly confident to break that tomorrow
Tyres changed on both bikes and now just waiting for scrutineering to be done
Weather is great but Sunday morning may be a bit wet
Happy as
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Rob
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Phenomenal, Red. Amazing what you've managed to get an old clunker to do. Must surely make all your hard work worth it.... 1 sec off an S1000R F1 pole time?.... Jeesus!
2 races for 2 x 1st outright
Now lead championship by 4 points, two races to go tomorrow
Weather turned hot, 32C during the day
And an R1 Yamaha blew its engine through Crash Corner and oiled the whole track down
We did not run under our Qualifying time, conditions just not there
Mule is on song, clutch working great, suspension is planted, 180 tyre hooking up, Matt riding the wheels off of the bikes and loving the Slipper clutch, could not ask for more
Now lead championship by 4 points, two races to go tomorrow
Weather turned hot, 32C during the day
And an R1 Yamaha blew its engine through Crash Corner and oiled the whole track down
We did not run under our Qualifying time, conditions just not there
Mule is on song, clutch working great, suspension is planted, 180 tyre hooking up, Matt riding the wheels off of the bikes and loving the Slipper clutch, could not ask for more