The new 300 layout.

I realise the surface will be very green and as a result grip could be er... unpredictable; but I've booked anyway.

2 hours 45mins and 150miles from my doorstep!

Id love to do this day but itsd gonna take some planning i think!

Is the new layout garanteed? im not sure theyve started work on the circuit yet have they?

Did some digging around, ground works and tyre walss started end of November, cicuit is said to be completed by the end of Feb, although im pretty sure they wernt expecting the weather weve had

Thanks Ash - I'd agree, the weather would have slowed work and there is no way you'd want to be putting down top surface at the moment - I wonder about the "base" though. I don't even know how deep they go when they lay racetrack.

If it's not ready it will be a money back deal - but I think it will run.

It's a punt anyway 'cos with a new surface you really have to show caution, if it's wet or really cold the day could well be a crashfest.

I loved the old Snett, always have. I did so many dates there on a 130MPH max 250, just cos the guys I used to ride with went there a lot.
It's good to see Palmer investing in the circuts and it could well be that we end up with a premier class circuit just 100 miles up the road (for me).

I wonder how pricing will change for it though?

It depends on how tight the radius is of that final section, hard to tell from the diagrams really.

Hope it's not too much faster - we already have a handicap!

As this shity winter drags on and on I really am feeling the need for serious speed. Bike is back to her best handling wise with rebuilt shock, forks and head bearings. So I think I'm going to get in on this action.

So far we have

Pete -fast

Luke- Inters
Schnauzer -Inters??


Normally as I haven't been to the track before I would book Inters but seeing as no one has been to the track before in this layout i'm tempted by fast Ronin are you working that day bud?

Dunno if youve booked yet dude but the event is now showing FULL

Nuts! Hottrax as yet.

Thurs 24 March 11 Snetterton 300 - £75.00 - BOOK NOW

18/04/2011 Snetterton - NEW - 300 Circuit Monday 30 £tbc

I can do these mate....

Thurs 24 March could be the winner then Fast or Inters??

Its only gonna be weekends for me this year due to kids, business etc...... (its gonna cost a fortune to just do weekends aswell But il throw up another thread about that when weve checked diarys etc...

Was chatting to Ronin last night and we might squeeze in a Cadders before Snetterton. Would rather let others lay down some rubber on that new tarmac and always the chance of rain early in the year. Don't fancy sending the bike down the track this early in the year.
We were looking at weekend dates as well. Here is the list I emailed Ronin


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Cadwell Park Sat 19 Feb 11 - £59.00 - BOOK NOW

Cadwell Park Sat 05 March 11 - £85-00 - BOOK NOW

Cadwell Park Mon 28 March 11 - £69-00 - BOOK NOW

Cadwell Park Tues 29 March 11 OPEN PITLANE £85-00 - BOOK NOW

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Cadwell Park Trackday Sat 19th March 2011 A Saturday at Cadwell Park on the full circuit £89.00



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Any weekend dates you arrange at Cadders just let us all no and il be there

im really tempted by this, but have never attended a trackday, and im still a bit of a novice rider to be honest, does anything know if the novice sessions will be ok? or would you reccomend to attend a trackday only for exprerienced road riders?

It doesnt matter what level of riding or rider your at, a trackday will only improve your skills on a motorcycle.

You will learn more in 1 day on track than you will with a years worth of road riding!

Just make sure you can afford this new hobby as it is guaranteed you will be hooked after a day on track

awesome , cant wait...justt didnt want to rock up and then be trawling around the track bricking it and everyone being like....oh dear

MTW - get it up yer lad!

You'll be fine, take your time to build up speed, do your braking all in a straight line at first and be smooth with the throttle.

I "Heart" Snett!

MTW I'm sure you won't be the slowest person in novice. If you aren't hooked after a day on track I'll be surprised. Next thing the knee will be down and you can kiss goodbye to your disposable income as it will be gone on tyre warmers, spare wheels, sticky rubber and track day fixes

yea im sure i will! been gagging to do one for ages, superduke R begs for it every time you ride it, be rude not too

Snett redevelopment aerial photos -

http://snetterton.motorsportvision.co.u ... hotos.aspx

Looking good

Over cooking it on T4 could lead to trouble!
Cant wait till the 5th

Theres a few spaces become available for this day again if ya quick guys

Not long now - I've not touched the bike since Nov - it still has slicks fitted.

I've had a cold all week and I'm still nursing a swollen ankle and sore back but I hope to make it.

Luke, will you be arriving in the dirty looking brown van? Any idea what time you'll be arriving?
Usual thing, first one there gets a garage and txts the number to the others?

That is is we get there. Two bikes full of petrol and two jerry cans full of petrol enclosed in the back of a van with my optimate and 240v running into the back of said van

I'll listen out for it.

Do you know where you're going or do you need sat nav, oh and as you're still up, do you want to email me the FE indemnity forms and all that they sent you with your booking, then I can get it all filled out and leave it at home like I normally do

See you there tomorrow

Report anyone?

So Luke picks me up at 05:30 am and we get to snett about 07.35, every single garage is rammed so no chance of any electric.

We park up and the first thing I notice are two of the biggest queues I've ever seen for signing on and noise testing, we unload the bikes and head on over to signing on, queue has gone down a little bit but it's fookin freezing while we wait to go inside, Luke makes some excuse about leaving his driving licence in the van but I reckon he just went back to warm up in the van for a few minutes while I hold our place in the queue, ice cold fingers clutching at our paperwork.

I sign on, no problem, 12.75 transfer fee, lovely Jubbly and Barry wants to know what sordid sexual depravity Pete was up to this week to do his back in, I said not sure what he's ben up to only that I only agreed to take his place if I didn't have to wear one of his "outfits", and by that I mean his scott russell leathers as I might quite like his other stuff

So then off to Noise testing, or so we thought, after queing forever the guy comes along and tells us to shut off the bikes and go to briefing, fine we thought, except they then kept us waiting another 10-15 minutes before anyone actually came out to give the briefing, probably still signing people on.

So then it's get changed quick smart to head out for sighting laps, the format was that they do sighting laps for each group before anybody goes out on track, I'm rushing to get all my gear on and get out there only to realise that the order is back to front with fast group going out last instead of first so I have a bit of time and take a look at the noise testing again, only a couple of people there so I get tested.

Last year I repacked my exhausts and got another set of baffles to try and bring my bike down to 101db so I could do Bedford as it was previously measuring 103-4 with baffles, when we were at cadwell in April I noise tested both my sets of baffles and without baffles and got 101 on both baffles and 103 without, I passed at Bedford with 100.5, I get tested at snett and he measures the right hand can as normal, he then walks around to the other side and starts doing the other can, unusual I thought but not really concerned as it's 105 limit anyway, and then he tells me my right can is under but my left is 105.3 and so he tells me it's a fail and I need baffles in, no problem, luckily they're still in my bag from the last time out so I head off to fit a set of the baffles.

By the time I've done that a queue has formed for noise testing again and it's my group next for sighting so I go off and do those and then head straight back to noise testing, right can fine, left can 106.5, WTF!!!, by this point I'm thinking shit, that's me screwed, the other set don't knock off anymore than these and I'm thanking my lucky stars I didn't pay the £85 for the day, so I fit the other set and to my amazement I get 104.1, phew, thank christ for that, game is on again.

I'd already decided to skip the first session as I needed to swap tyres anyway so after a bacon roll and cup of tea I get those off and leave em with the tyre guy and while I 'm waiting I pull apart my end cans and stick some exhaust sealant on the end caps as the rubber gasket thing that was there when I took them apart and repacked them had disentegrated and so I've been sucking in a bit of air since I did it and it's gradually got worse, while I'm doing this a guy comes over and asks me if I have any wadding, apparently they'd just been kicked off for setting off the drive by noise meters despite a static test of 102 and tell me an RC8 was also flagged, so I'm thinking this is going to be a seriously short session for me.

Get me tyres back and the guy has put the tyre on the front the wrong way round, I get it changed just in time to get it fitted back up and gear up ready for my session although he doesn't appear to have balanced it at all.

It's a mist of rain now and the session is pretty sedate, I'm wondering if they know something I don't as everybody seems to be taking it really easy, I'm still getting into it so I overtake a few people but generally don't get up to a very fast pace really, I seem to have gained a stutter at 8000 revs but wierdly in only one gear, usually the one Im in coming out of the hairpin or onto the back straight at this pace we seem to be doing and pick up from low down is a bit lumpy if I pick a higher gear and my exhaust isn't much better either so will have to check the graphite gasket next, I only just replaced it but don't think the pipe pushed all the way home, looked to be a good seal still but maybe it's not quite so.

It's still fookin cold and Luke borrows my all season gloves for his session to warm his hands up a bit, a little while later Schnauzer pulls in, Luke has binned it, shit, you know all those things you start thinking, how bad was it, how bad is the bike and most importantly, is the fooker gonna get back in time with my gloves before my session starts

So unfortunately, no gopro footage, i didn't bother putting it on in the morning as I knew I wouldn't be up to pace and then the afternoon obviously never came.

I imagine you want to know what the circuit is like, well it's hard to get the best perspective on it because of the pace and I've never ridden the old layout but I reckon it's gonna be pretty damn good, the long corner coming on to the start finish is gonna catch people out as you coming a long way round still turning right when you then have to get the bike up, brake and setup for the tight left in almost no distance at all, it seems a lot less room in real life than it looks on the map, plenty of nice corners in there, gonna be interesting figuring out the right lines for us, but definitely some opportunity for us Superdukers to make up some ground after the long straights.

I'll definitely go back their again and look forward to riding it properly next time, perhaps with a new exhaust setup though, as I can't be doing with this kind of crap at noise testing.

Stupid Lukentino Rossi's diary 6/3/11

Yesterday we do the Snetterton 300, new circuit is very nice. Big thanks to Dorna err MSV. We turn up at 7.30am, I have Twisted Ucchio with me as Ducasey Pete is ill, probably lactose intollerence again. I say 'FACK where is all de garages gone'.

The Marshal he tell me fully booked 3 groups of 65 FACK that Napolean Healey must be as rich as me. No garage means no tyrewarmers and we are stuck out in the middle of the carpark in about 3 degrees celcius. Still we makada good race. I av a motobox and new painted panels so I very appy.

We queue for da noise test. MSV lay on 1 guy to noise test nearly 200 bikes so we have to interrupt noise test for the breifing. Usual FE breifing; we are all careless cunts out to ruin everyone elses day. Why could we just pay the 85 quid and stay at home. Anyone overtaking or looking like they are enjoying themselves will get black flagged. Why are you all still here, I thought I had sent you all home?

Still I have da Bridgestones, they better than the Michelins right. I will makada good race.

Sighting laps and track looks good but not dat grippy. Tyres no warmer after 3 laps than when we set off. Ucchio forget my winter gloves so I only have race gloves I say 'FACK my ands are cold'.

Jorge Jones he turn up. We get da noisy tested. My bike is fine, Twisted Ucchio's exhaust is facked. Also Dabolt on my footpeg has falled out again I say FACK dis never happened to my Onda. We fix the bikes and TU gets his shagged Racetecs changed for slightly less shagged Racetecs. Sneaky Fackin FE call our first session while we are doing this, Or perhpas while we are stuffing Breakfast baps (4 quid) in the cafe. Anyway if JB ask we was downloading telemetry in da race transporter.

We do 2nd race. FACK my ands are cold. I cram a thin pair of gloves under my race gloves but no warmer. Still no heat in tyres after full session and it is drizzling and making da track wet. Focused announce no one allowed out on slicks, could everyone with slicks just go home but thants for the 85 quid. I say FACK, money grabbing cunts.

We do 3rd race. I borrow Twisted Uccios winter gloves. FACK my ands are warm. Track has dried and I do 3 steady laps. Now I think I pull da pin and makada good race......

I am sliding on da track wiv my elbow down. Telemetry say 65 degrees of lean FACK bike is only at 50 degrees of lean as I can see it in front of me. I say 'mama mia dont go uppa kerb, but it goes uppa da kerb. Then I go uppa da kerb and do a bit of a forward roll for da camera. I cant picka da bike up as it is sunk in da sand /mud. I say 'FACK I could have gone to Enduroland and got stunk in sand /mud for only 30 quid. Then I say 'FACK now I am one of dem cunts getting red flagged and ruining the day for everybody that Barry told us about at the Breifing' Anyway at least my ands are nice and warm, except for the bits wiv da holes in

Now is lunchtime.We say FACK it and get a coffee. Snetterton give us Free coffee as they tink ours were paid for by the guy in front. We go hide before, his real mates behind us get to the til and have to pay for theirs. Twisted Ucchio finds a Ducati key in da pisser but gives it back to the owner instead of giving it to me. I say FACK Twisted Ucchio can walk home.

After lunch it rains more. Fackin Focused said it was dry all day. I ask for a refund they say FACK OFF. Jorge Jones only has da same shit Bridgestones dat tipped me off my bike wivout a da warning He say FACK IT. Twisted Ucchio he only has shagged Racetecs dat he been spinning up already he say FACK IT. My and is now warm but stiffeneing up and I have worn through the finger nail of my best Wanking and. Might av to av a FACK for the next week or so. Luckily I is ard as a coffin nail.

Motoronin promised to come down at midday wiv cakes but didnt show. Must av slept through his alarm. Got to get bike cleaned up and sorted before next pre season test. FACK.

And i thought you guys were gonna have a dry day ?

Thanks for the reports guys.

I guess the reason the garages are rammed is 3 groups of 65! No wonder the price is similar to last year, they have a bigger capacity now.

I arrived around 8.30am, temperature was around 2.5°C, the ground slightly damp, Luke had already texted to say there were no garages, I found the guys and unloaded the bike, only to find a flat battery. Luckily, Luke had an Optimate in his van and I found a garage with an unused plug socket to get some juice in to the battery.

In the briefing FE acknowledged that they had quite a few racers who had booked on and it was a fully booked day, 65 per group.

There's a few of us watching the first session from the pit wall, some videoing the passing bikes on their phones/cameras. This little FE nazi walks down the lane bollocking everyone for videoing! "Its against the law, its illegal, its private property, it could be used for timing". More like Kev protecting the incumbent "official" TD video & photo services! Maybe their revenue is diminishing cus of GoPro's etc and he's looking to keep them sweet.

Luke comes in from his sighting laps with frozen fingers, its cold out there! After 45 mins of charging the battery there's enough juice to get the bike started, time to get kitted up. Having missed the first session and not knowing the new layout I follow Luke for the session. The BT003 on the front and BT016 on the rear, were only slightly warm after the session.

The new layout is a great, it lengthens the circuit nicely and adds an interesting dimension to the two straights, two sweepers and two corners. The circuit handled 65 riders on track at one time, with very little traffic and bunching. It will be interesting to see if this is true when the weather warms up and people are more confident with the new layout.

Second session and starting to get a feel the new corners, lines and the flow through them. There's a little drizzle on the visor but nothing heavy. Combined with the new tarmac, temperature and damp everyone is being being careful, there's no TD hero's here today, for most its the first track day of the season.

Third session, the circuit is drying and there a dry line around the track. Everyone is looks to be trying to push a little harder, I'm around 3 riders behind Luke when he goes down coming out of the corner with the back end coming round on him. He's up immediately, it looks to be a relatively uneventful slow event. Back in the pits and the aftermath is minimal, mainly mud and minor scratches.

After lunch the pits have noticeably thinned, the temperature, FE's slicks ban, surface conditions taking its toll. The mojo has gone and we come to the same conclusion, first TD of the year, live to ride another day. The guys next to us have had all the fun they came for as well.

Sorry you guys had such poor weather, I was there friday on a car trackday and the weather was superb. Sunny all day with little wind.

Sorry you binned it Luke. If that was on your mind though you really should have come to Enduroland where it's a certainly and also a requirement!

Sounds more of an endurance-fest than bloody enduroland. Glad everyone and everything's still in working order, completely forgot about popping in to say hello let alone delivering cupcakes, at least you had far less crashes than us lot...

MSV will have raised the price to hire the circuit for sure.

They have to pay for the new track somehow, 195 total riders was a complete nightmare for signing on and noise testing etc and they need to get that sorted and it was a scary thought finding out how many riders there were but it never felt any busier than usual on track and it is 3 miles long, however it wasn't exactly the best day and with people getting kicked off for drive by noise I'd hate to think what might happen in the worst case scenario if everybody suddenly finds themselves all bunched up on one part of the circuit.

How many people per group is it on Brands Indy?

I think it's max 35.

65 on track is ok but surely it must have occured to someone at MSV that twice the number of riders would need a few more garages, a few more electrickery points and maybe another nazi or two on noise testing.

Even some extra power points in the non garaged bits would have been nice like they have at lydden.