Tim Hastings - update
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:13 pm
Things have been a little quite in terms of reports so i thought I'd post an update following on from Knockhill.
Snetterton was next up and Tim took a tumble at the notorious "bombhole" during his qualifying session. That fall, as well as the two almighty highsides at Knockhill, took the edge of the confidence levels - although Tim denies this - either way, starting P32 was far from ideal. Four laps into the race, the red flags brought a premature halt to proceedings and the subsequent re-start was again red flagged after just two racing laps and a result called. Not a great weekend, although Tim did race well and improved his lap times.
Oulton followed and so did our run of bad luck. Tim missed the qualifying session due to his bike, (which had been fine up until the qualy session), refusing to start. Eventually traced to the power commander, yet again Tim was away back on the grid in P27. The race was eventually abandoned due to the heavy rainfall and re-scheduled to be run at Donington Park in September.
Then to Brands Hatch GP and things were looking up as Tim completed the practise session in the top twenty and the first qualy session went well too, except for a small glitch in so far as we went the wrong way with a suspension change during his pit stop, however, Tim completed the session in P13 and we were confident of improving in the second session. Then the mechanical gremlins returned and attacked our gearbox, putting paid to our session.
With no spare gearbox our weekend was effectively over and so it was on Sunday morning, we were packing up ready to leave for home when we got a call from the Gearlink Kawasaki supersport team, to say that they had a spare gearbox for Tim's poorly ZX6R. This was at 08H15. Tim was due out at 09H20 for a 8 minute warm up session.
The gearlink squad got to work on Tim's bike at 08H30 and Tim took to the track at 09H24, with the new gearbox fitted, to complete the remaing 4 miutes of the session.
Starting from P19 was yet again frustrating, but at least we were racing. The race it'self went real well, with Tim taking points from a P13 finish and setting a new personal best lap time.
Snetterton was next up and Tim took a tumble at the notorious "bombhole" during his qualifying session. That fall, as well as the two almighty highsides at Knockhill, took the edge of the confidence levels - although Tim denies this - either way, starting P32 was far from ideal. Four laps into the race, the red flags brought a premature halt to proceedings and the subsequent re-start was again red flagged after just two racing laps and a result called. Not a great weekend, although Tim did race well and improved his lap times.
Oulton followed and so did our run of bad luck. Tim missed the qualifying session due to his bike, (which had been fine up until the qualy session), refusing to start. Eventually traced to the power commander, yet again Tim was away back on the grid in P27. The race was eventually abandoned due to the heavy rainfall and re-scheduled to be run at Donington Park in September.
Then to Brands Hatch GP and things were looking up as Tim completed the practise session in the top twenty and the first qualy session went well too, except for a small glitch in so far as we went the wrong way with a suspension change during his pit stop, however, Tim completed the session in P13 and we were confident of improving in the second session. Then the mechanical gremlins returned and attacked our gearbox, putting paid to our session.
With no spare gearbox our weekend was effectively over and so it was on Sunday morning, we were packing up ready to leave for home when we got a call from the Gearlink Kawasaki supersport team, to say that they had a spare gearbox for Tim's poorly ZX6R. This was at 08H15. Tim was due out at 09H20 for a 8 minute warm up session.
The gearlink squad got to work on Tim's bike at 08H30 and Tim took to the track at 09H24, with the new gearbox fitted, to complete the remaing 4 miutes of the session.
Starting from P19 was yet again frustrating, but at least we were racing. The race it'self went real well, with Tim taking points from a P13 finish and setting a new personal best lap time.