October 21, 22 NSW Series Round 4 Eastern Creek, NSW
Saturday practice was going well with the spare motor until the last session of the day. Coming down the main straight 15,000rpm in 5th gear and the bike jumped into 4th gear and revved to over 16,000 rpm, damaging the valves and piston in #3 cylinder. We withdrew from the race meeting.
September 3 5 Hour Endurance Race Wakefield Park, NSW
1st in Class and New PB of 1:11.830 read the Press Release here
August 5, 6 NSW Series Round 3 Wakefield Park, NSW
Engine suffered a minor irregularity in compression during practice. Telephoned to race engineer who advised to err on caution and withdraw from the meeting until the engine can be pulled down and assessed. It was later found to have snapped 4 valves, damaging the piston barrels and con-rod. Parts would not be available to get the engine running again this season
July 1, 2 East Coast Race Series Round 3 Eastern Creek, NSW
Dry track and my new engine helped smash 1.1 seconds from my PB. Racing was tough, I didn’t qualify the best and trying to make up spaces in the race I was run off the track 2 out of 3 races whilst trying to overtake. Qualified 15th out of 29. Race 1 finished 16th, race 2 finished 20th and race 3 finished 13th
June 10, 11 Queensland Titles + Tri Stat e Round 2 Willowbank, QLD
The new race engine has a 20% increase in horsepower and was proving difficult to put down the power in what was the first wet meeting here in 3 years. Challenging for 6th place with Gary Peake, I pushed hard and twice lost the rear of the bike whilst trying to overtake. Another big slide caused me to loose confidence in my tyres and fall back and finish the Titles in 12th place. A check later revealed too much press
May 20, 21 NSW Series Round 2 Wakefield Park, NSW
I don’t have the best record here. 2 meetings for 2 crashes including 2 broken feet and shattered right clavicle (9 screws and a plate). My aim was to finish without a crash. Qualified 14th lowered PB by 1 second and raced cautiously with a19th and 2 17th places.
April, 28-30 Stars of Tomorrow + Tri State Round 1 Phillip Island, VIC
It was the first time on the track for the R4. Hundreds of spectators and competitors loved the looks of the bike. Racing with my spare engine (stock RR), qualified 20th in the dry. Worked my way through the heats to qualify for the final. Final day and it was raining, 8th fastest in morning warm-up, mindful of bringing the bike home in 1 piece finished in 9th place.
April 24, 25 NSW Series Round 1 Eastern Creek, NSW
New R4 was not ready so we did not compete. Phillip Island is only 3 days away so we it more important.
