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conker
Really - acotrel - Now banned
Victoria
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 Posted - 13 May 2011 : 08:18:32 AM
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| GD66, I agree with your comments a bout 'broad appeal'. However I still believe that the P3 Senior (500cc) class is the premier. It's just a pity that the Seeley G50, and the SR500s don't get to run in it. They're faced with the same development wall as far as their motors and handling are concerned, and it would make sense to have them race with the P3 500s. Watching guys like Gardner and Campbell race on 500cc four strokes, is like watching ballet. And it's very similar to what the Australian Senior TT was in the early 1960s. |
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GD66
Senior Member
Western Australia
390 Posts |
Posted - 13 May 2011 : 6:42:25 PM
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Kind of. Nothing stopping someone like the BSFoS running an all-in singles event, by the way. Unfortunately Bob Blythe's quixotic efforts to get the InCA formula accepted at Eastern Creek (and Pukekohe) was met with a deafening silence, very disappointing after he'd forked out so much of his own money in the misguided belief that the 1968 cutoff would compel a host of top riders and entrants to buy and turn out with Seeleys and Metisses.
I fail to see how he could have done more, yet he received virtually no support and in fact George Beale and co (who could easily have afforded to pay their own way once in Australia) viewed it as an opportunity for a free winter holiday and saw to it that Bob had to keep dipping into his pocket to keep things running away from the circuit.
Appalling, really, and it made sure poor old Bob had to give his dream away. The BSFoS is what has emerged from the ashes of Bob's InCA meetings, but back in the day we were lucky enough to see John Cronshaw, Dave Roper, Sandro Baumann, Barry Sheene, Phil Read, Dave Hughes, Glen English and Andy Molnar mixing it up with Morris, Guest, Farrell and the rest of the P3 local guns, in front of a small group of fanatic locals but empty grandstands.
In short Alan, the formula didn't take hold...
BTW I haven't seen Campbell on a banger as yet : the Vee Two Ducati, Ray Berry's RG500 and now an XR69, but so far no banger... |
Edited by - GD66 on 13 May 2011 6:43:14 PM |
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conker
Really - acotrel - Now banned
Victoria
361 Posts |
Posted - 14 May 2011 : 08:39:45 AM
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| Sorry GD66 KEITH Campbell, not Wally. Supermono was surprisingly popular in Victoria for a while, due mainly to the absence of rules. The one rule they needed was an upper capacity limit of 500cc. The winners had the big motors (600cc and over) and to be amongst it you had to have one. Most couldn't stand up to racing, and there are still old supermonos with blown up motors, rotting way in garages. Getting a class up and running is always a problem. But P3 500s are already there! It wouldn't be rocket science to permit P4 and P5 500cc singles to run with the P3 bikes. All it would take would be to allow use of a single disc in place of the already permitted drum brakes, and forget about the 'historic' rules, except requiring that the bikes must be log-booked in at least one of the eligible 'periods'. I don't believe any SR500 on the planet would beat a molnar manx in the hands of an equivalent rider. |
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