Wakefield PCRA 1 hour race

Billy had informed me some months prior that he and Stace would be racing in the PCRA one hour in November.  Mick C was also to be Billy’s co-pilot for the race and so I went along to cheer them on 

Got a lift up with Gos (the ride to goulburn is just not that exciting) and we soon found the boys in the garage at the end of the world.  Stace had not been able to make it due to a family matter, but Simmo had Stace’s bike and Nikos was coming down from Sydney to co-pilot with him.  Also in the garage was Kev from KSRC on a ZX9R (which looked to be about four times the size of all the other bikes in there!)

Preparations started and the temperature was rising.

preparation

Rider briefing

Eventually Mick got to head out for his first race…

Mick C

and we all stood on the wall watching him go round… and how was his first race?

fkn awesome

That smile says it all really!

The sprint races continued and I did a fair bit of spectating as well as hanging out in the garage…

Simmo heading out

The one hour race was good - had a Leman’s style start which I had never seen before.  Gos, Stevo and I headed up to the hill to find some seats in the shade while we watched - the boys did good!

Eventually day one was over and although I was supposed to be heading home, Billy said there were heaps of spare beds where they were staying so I decided to stay for the night.  We headed into town to buy some groceries and Billy cooked us all truly awesome pizzas for dinner.  After dinner a few bourbons on the front porch was the order of the evening before we all headed to bed around 11pm.

Up bright and early Sunday morning and back out to the track.  Billy & Mick still had a few sprint races, but the rest still had their one hour races to go.  The forecast was for 40 degrees so the race order was changed around a bit to get the one hour races in as early as possible (some of the co-riders weren’t there yet though which was a problem). 

As someone was very sunburnt from the day before, most of my day was spent in the shade in the garage. 

Simmo & Nikos did well in their race and was good to watch Kev go round, and Nobby was his co-rider. 

The last few races were cancelled and then we went over to the presentations where the boys picked up an impressive amount of silverware 

Then into the Commodore for the trip home.

Oh, now I want to get a bucket and go racing  (but I say that everytime I come home from watching the PCRA guys at Wakefield)