Racing to Watch For: This Weekend 1st Rnd of Aussie eFX and Brammo Takes Gas Bik

[ttxgpfan]

Racing to Watch For: This Weekend 1st Rnd of Aussie eFX and Brammo Takes Gas Bikes Head-on!

http://esbk.co/2013/05/02/racing-to-watch-for-this-weekend-1st-rnd-of-aussie-efx-and-brammo-takes-gas-bikes-head-on/

Shameless plug, but I thought we needed a thread with a title that shouts "BRAMMO"S RACING GAS BIKES THIS WEEKEND!", with a link to help you get caught up and maybe give you an idea on what you might want to watch out for.

[protomech]

AFM @ Sonoma race schedule, May 4-5:
http://www.afmracing.org/webforums/viewtopic.php?t=5412

Watch online here:
http://www.axialvideo.com/afm-races-live/cat_25.html

Shelina Moreda to race 250 Superbike on the Empulse TTX.
Eric Bostrom to race Formula 500 Twins on the Empulse TTX, 750 Superbike on the Empulse RR.
Steve Atlas to race Formula I on the Empulse RR.

Event Format - what to expect on a race weekend - link

Saturday
All Saturday Practice days are open to licensed members. It includes 2/3 day of practice and races for Clubman, Vintage, AFemme, and Formula 40 classes. The Endurance race weekend will have an all day Friday Practice. Saturday will include the Clubman, Vintage, AFemme, Formula 40 races, and Specialty and Exhibition Races.

Sunday
Open practice in the morning until around 9:30.

The first race usually starts approximately 10:00 with 4 races held before lunch, and the balance of the races recommencing about 12:30 and continuing to around 5:00pm.

The raceday schedule (order that the different classes are run) usually changes from race weekend to race weekend, but the AFM's Premiere event, the Formula Pacific Challenge, is normally held sometime between 1:45 to 3 pm. A preview of the raceday schedule is usually posted a week before the race weekend and can be found in the Breaking News Section.

Race schedule order:
1   250 SB
6   Open SB
7    F 1
10   500 Twins
14   750 SB

Saturday practice:
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM Practice
3:00 PM Races S1 to S3, smaller classes?

Sunday races:
10:00 AM start (Shelina reports 9:45 AM, don't know if this is "get ready" or "race start")
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 5:00 PM Races resume

Hunting more specific times for practice and races.

[ttxgpfan]

Formula 1 is the class.  There are a bunch of Formula classes.  The Formula classes are not restricted to production bikes.  So if you have the money I suppose you could show up with an old GP bike.

[protomech]

Ah, got it. I thought perhaps Formula I was broken into different classes for each engine type.

[Brammofan]

Best of luck to Brammo today and tomorrow. They've been posting some photos on their Facebook page.

[Gavin]

Live blogging?

Good luck Brammo

And have fun

Gavin


Ps.  Live blogging??

[protomech]

Here are some fast lap times from a 2009 AFM Race at the Infineon AFM track configuration:

Superbike 750, Lenny Hale, Yamaha '08, 1:42.628 (Yamaha YZF-R6?)
Formula I, Lenny Hale, Yamaha '08, 1:42.745 (Yamaha YZF-R6?)
Formula 500 Twins, Allen Erkman, Suzuki '99, 1:51:640 (Suzuki SV500?)
Superbike 250, Ed Thompson, Suzuki '08, 1:54:951 (Suzuki RMZ450?)

"The following 4-strokes may run down one class in Superbike: Singles, Twins and 675 cc triples."

[ttxgpfan]

There'd be live blogging and podcasting if I was there.  I think Brian and the team are up to their elbows.  Not only do they want a real good showing against the gas bikes, but they also have marching orders from some goober blogger. 

[ttxgpfan]

Ah, got it. I thought perhaps Formula I was broken into different classes for each engine type.

Nope, that's Superbike that does that.

[ttxgpfan]

You know what, this sucks.  No news about practice, and I'm not sure about qualifying.  I did go through all that video for nothing as if I had paid more attention to protomech's post.

Any chance you guy would start campaign to get Brammo to fly me out so I can cover the next one of these things?  No wait, that would probably involve Brammo having to pay everyone on the team hazardous duty pay (aka bribe money) to put up with me. 

[protomech]

Let's try to get a google+ hangout together to watch the race tomorrow. At least starting with Shelina, meet up at say 9:30 AM pacific / 12:30 PM eastern.

PM me or post here and I'll grab you.

[protomech]

Any chance you guy would start campaign to get Brammo to fly me out so I can cover the next one of these things?  No wait, that would probably involve Brammo having to pay everyone on the team hazardous duty pay (aka bribe money) to put up with me. 

That or you need to recruit frodus (or flar, or Richard230) as your west coast correspondent : )

In fact, a rumor says we may have some live track video coverage at the hangout..

[protomech]

Brammo has a facebook update with some tidbits from practice yesterday.

Also ttxgpfan @ esbk.co got a very late interview with Shelina last night : ) They talk about the practice results 40 minutes in.
http://esbk.co/2013/05/05/esbk-studios-special-shelina-spills-the-beans/

Shelina's already at a 2:00 laptime after two practice sessions.

Results from 2009 in the two classes the TTX will compete in:

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Superbike 250:
Pos Name Mk/Yr Best Lap
  1 THOMPSON, ED Suz08 1:54:951
  2 CAPPS, RICHARD Kaw08 1:55:995
  3 MC KINNEY, MARK Kaw08 2:04:136
  4 HARRIS, CRAIG Kaw02 2:09:233
  5 MAZURKIEWICZ, LISA Kaw99 2:11:216
So she's right up in there with the gas bikes. Will be some good racing

And here's Eric's competition on the TTX:

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Formula 500 Twins:
Pos Name Mk/Yr Best Lap
  1 ERKMAN, ALLEN Suz99 1:51:640
  2 ANDERSON, VIK Suz01 1:52:063
  3 FORMAN, JONATHAN E. Suz02 1:54:636
  4 ALDINGER, PATRICK Kaw95 2:00:109
  5 KIMBALL, JAKE Kaw87 2:05:390
Both Steve and Eric are turning in 1:49 best laps on the RR bikes. Would put them at ~ 25/38 in SB750 and 13/21 in F1, just going by best lap times. Will see what they're doing after the 2nd practice session, which just wrapped up.

[ttxgpfan]

The fastest 250s were running about a 1:58 Shelina thought.  Can you get me in the hangout?

[protomech]

Absolutely. Yeah the first times I posted were bogus, dumped them in OpenOffice and it tried to interpret them as a hour:minute:second.