What to expect on your first Race weekend/ Day

[MellowYellow]

Originally Posted by Texwasabi

yup you wore the dress.....

[Dos]

Thank you Berto for starting this!
and thanks to everybody else for all your input! a lot of great info.

Originally Posted by hitman5532

It is either by date signed up or by number. I have heard paople say it is by number, but I was gridded behind people with bigger numbers and smaller numbers despite all being brand new. I waited to the last second to sign up, and started dead last. Remember if you start in the back, at least no one can hit you if you stall (a good thing to help calm your nerves)

Then its last minute signup for me!!! But mainly because no one will pass me then!

[hitman5532]

Originally Posted by number_6

do you take the belly pan with you when you take the bike to Tech Inspection?

for the first time, yes. Thereafter, no (unless you wreck and they remove your bellypan sticker from your bike)

[ZXR400SP]

Always good to have help the first weekend since you have to take everything to tech. Leathers, boots, gloves, helmet, and belly pan. There have been Friday night belly pan/gear inspections done by the head tech for a small donation to the airfence fund. Hopefully Dave Worthington will continue the tradition this year.

[Texwasabi]

Originally Posted by Hellraizer547

Just reading these posts is making me remember the good times when I raced for a couple weekends. Thanks Berto for the good info, I will be making a checklist. This time around I am not going to try to burden myself with everything, my wife will be their taking care of the checkslists, and that will also include water/food.

Ah Sergio, be good to finally meet "The natural".

[Tigre13]

Originally Posted by Holeshot

wakeup, BRUSH YOUR TEETH, and go to registration.

Don't forget to floss, too.

Seriously, big props on this thread, Berto. You captured a lot of the essentials of the experience. Very useful for new-types. Hope to see many more of them out there, too -- isn't the economy bouncing back?

Cheers,
Steve

[Hellraizer547]

Originally Posted by Texwasabi

Ah Sergio, be good to finally meet "The natural".

I think we have met once. It was during a tracktactics trackday at Buttonwillow, I recall my friend lent you gloves. Anyways, hope to see you on track, but if your riding a Honda 1k we will have to see each other in the Pit, not the track.

Sergio

[RedMist]

Originally Posted by Hellraizer547

I think we have met once. It was during a tracktactics trackday at Buttonwillow, I recall my friend lent you gloves. Anyways, hope to see you on track, but if your riding a Honda 1k we will have to see each other in the Pit, not the track.

Sergio

Long time Serg, what you racing this year?

[DrSwade]

Originally Posted by Med23

What is the deal for gridding in the first Clubman race of the season? I read about gridding in the rulebook and it mentions previous points standings, which I assume only a few people in Clubman have points from last year. What about the rest? Did I miss the outlining of this subject in the rulebook?

Gridding won't matter as most will be piled up by turn one or two.

Hopefully, not really!

[akathisia]

Originally Posted by hitman5532

It is either by date signed up or by number. I have heard paople say it is by number, but I was gridded behind people with bigger numbers and smaller numbers despite all being brand new. I waited to the last second to sign up, and started dead last. Remember if you start in the back, at least no one can hit you if you stall (a good thing to help calm your nerves)

Very nice check list. I really wish I would have had it last season, my first with the AFM.

No joke, I liked the idea of being gridded last for my first start. Knowing I wouldn't be run over or taken out in the first corner allowed me to focus my energies on getting round the track the first lap.

Oh yeah.... everyone at the track was really helpful in answering my questions, and even helping me get to tech and listening to the announcements, etc. I couldn't have figured it out without all the help. Thanks fellow racers!

[Texwasabi]

Originally Posted by Hellraizer547

I think we have met once. It was during a tracktactics trackday at Buttonwillow, I recall my friend lent you gloves.

Sergio

Ahh yeah, but it was I whom lent your buddy the gloves, I think his seems were busting out. In the pits or in practice, we will meet.

[Hellraizer547]

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Originally Posted by Shawnery

Long time Serg, what you racing this year?

[Texwasabi]

Originally Posted by DrSwade

Gridding won't matter as most will be piled up by turn one or two.

Hopefully, not really!

With you on the inside I am sure a few riders will be tasting dirt on their way to two... I keeeed!

[jrace]

Also...

A portable radio for when you can't hear the P.A...

Tape the schedule for the day somewhere visible, and pit near people who are in your races and you can cue off them if you lose track of the time..

-jim

[FlatulentDan]

definitely some good stuff. I think I'll be compling this into a printable hand-out for new racers