BSB Snetterton
After two weeks without wind, I had to point the lens in another direction. Snetterton in Norfolk was the host for round seven of the British Super Bikes, and having raced around the track with Nik Baker, and Steve and Shaun Cook I wanted to see how quick the pro’s get round the track. MSS discovery Racing had two bikes on the grid and a couple a spare VIP tickets to get me through the gates.
I headed up to the track early with probably my friend for junior school, Kevin Saunders, like me he’s a bit hooked on getting behind the lens. Steve and Shaun Cook from F-hot joined us trackside, while I help with MSS’s website, Steve and Shaun make things carbon for the MSS Discovery Race bikes.
Once you’ve raced round the track you get a real sense of just how hard these boys are pushing. When we rode round Snetterton I was hard pushed to get round in the one minute twenty area, and even by the time we got to understand how to ride properly I was still only able to drop that down to one fifteen.
We may have been on road bikes but the Supper Sports were running seven second quicker. Snetterton is a fast track and favours the bigger more powerful bikes so allows the Super Bikes to take a further big chunk off the time, Keon Haslam set a new lap record of 1:04,500 which just seamed outrageous.
But then if you’re going to push those sorts of times, crashes have to be expected, and any one that wanted to see carnage wasn’t disappointed. While there was the inevitable fall in each race, the two Super Bike races saw the ambulance appear on track each round. The second round crash was big enough to stop the race.
Having been right near the action, I don’t think us windsurfers have much to complain about, I don’t know of anyone that has had anything that comes close to what these boys have to endure once it all goes wrong.
Read MoreI headed up to the track early with probably my friend for junior school, Kevin Saunders, like me he’s a bit hooked on getting behind the lens. Steve and Shaun Cook from F-hot joined us trackside, while I help with MSS’s website, Steve and Shaun make things carbon for the MSS Discovery Race bikes.
Once you’ve raced round the track you get a real sense of just how hard these boys are pushing. When we rode round Snetterton I was hard pushed to get round in the one minute twenty area, and even by the time we got to understand how to ride properly I was still only able to drop that down to one fifteen.
We may have been on road bikes but the Supper Sports were running seven second quicker. Snetterton is a fast track and favours the bigger more powerful bikes so allows the Super Bikes to take a further big chunk off the time, Keon Haslam set a new lap record of 1:04,500 which just seamed outrageous.
But then if you’re going to push those sorts of times, crashes have to be expected, and any one that wanted to see carnage wasn’t disappointed. While there was the inevitable fall in each race, the two Super Bike races saw the ambulance appear on track each round. The second round crash was big enough to stop the race.
Having been right near the action, I don’t think us windsurfers have much to complain about, I don’t know of anyone that has had anything that comes close to what these boys have to endure once it all goes wrong.
