2012 Pirelli Road Race Series

[Francis C]

Preston MCC is proud to announce our plans for 2012 and Victorian riders are in for treat in 2012 with over $50,000 in trophies, prizes & prize money up for grabs.

With 4 rounds, Broadford, Mac Park, Phillip Island & Broadford.
Classes are Superbike, Supersport, Superstock 600 & 1000 for B&C graders, BEARs/Thunderbike, Period 6/Pre-Modern F1, 125/250 GP, Supermoto, Formula 400/Twin Sprint/Pre-Modern F2, Sidecar, Junior classes.

We are introducing Mac Park into the series to give riders varity and reduce costs.

The proposed schedule will include 1 Qualifying session, 3 Sprint races (~22km each), 2 Tourist Trophy races (~44km each) for each class except juniors and sidcars. There will also be a feature race (~66km) at each round.

Riders will have around 150km's of racing over a weekend up from around 60km's.

Prize money will be available for the TT series in the following classes Superbike, Supersport, Superstock 600, Superstock 1000 & BEARs/Thunderbike. $600 1st, $200 2nd, $150 3rd, $100 4th, $50 5th.

Senior Entry fee's will be around $320 for Broadford & Mac Park & $380 for Phillip Island.
And $260/$320 for Sidecars.
Juniors will be $120 at all rounds.
A Series Entry will be available for around $1200.

Dates
Round 1 April 14-15, Broadford
Round 2 June 9-10, Mac Park
Round 3 July 21-22, Winton
Round 4 October 13-14, Broadford

More details to follow.

Classes are:
Superbike
Supersport
Superstock 1000 B&C
Superstock 600 B&C
BEAR's/Thunderbike
Period 6/Pre-Modern F1
Formula 400/Twin Sprint/Pre-Modern F2
125/250 GP
Supermoto Clubman S4
Sidecar
Junior Small Wheel 2 Stroke
Junior Big wheel 2 Stroke
Junior 4 Stroke

[Johnny O]

Are the Superbike, Superstock, Supersport for A & B grade only if you're running C grade only classes?

[Johnny O]

Why the hell does anyone even consider running BEARS races anymore? It was originally developed for bikes like old Ducati's & Moto Guzzi's that didn't have a chance against GSXR's & FZR's.  But now you have BMW S1000RR's, 1198 Duke's, MV Agusta F4's, Aprilia RSV4's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surely it is just a trophy giving class for riders with enough money to go out and buy their own trophies!

Wake-up, man-up and drop the stupid class and give real classes more races, trophies & prize money.

[JasonL]

Any other stupid classes you'd like to drop?

Hint: The series might just need every entry it can get??

[Johnny O]

Hmmmm, maybe a class for over 52 yo's with false knees  :-)

[JasonL]

That'd be historics!

[nicedat]

Is this proposed championship replacing anything or will it be run as well as Interclub and Vic titles?

[Francis C]

This was to be the next stage of the vic titles evolution but MV have decided to give your Vic Titles to a private promoter and pay them $20,000 of your money when they wouldn't even pay for the last two years championship cups.

[Francis C]

Why the hell does anyone even consider running BEARS races anymore? It was originally developed for bikes like old Ducati's & Moto Guzzi's that didn't have a chance against GSXR's & FZR's.  But now you have BMW S1000RR's, 1198 Duke's, MV Agusta F4's, Aprilia RSV4's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surely it is just a trophy giving class for riders with enough money to go out and buy their own trophies!

Wake-up, man-up and drop the stupid class and give real classes more races, trophies & prize money.

At several rounds the bears class was the biggest. If we didn't have this class then the superbike class would be too big for the grid. Broadford has a max of 31 on the grid.

[bruce]

Not that I am totally biased or anything but I notice that the super mono/moto's have been ignored again, surely they can run with the 125's as they will gradually become a thing of the past now that Moto3 is basically a 250 super mono class.

[Francis C]

You might have a good point there bruce. I will look at adding the class.

[Johnny O]

Why the hell does anyone even consider running BEARS races anymore? It was originally developed for bikes like old Ducati's & Moto Guzzi's that didn't have a chance against GSXR's & FZR's.  But now you have BMW S1000RR's, 1198 Duke's, MV Agusta F4's, Aprilia RSV4's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surely it is just a trophy giving class for riders with enough money to go out and buy their own trophies!

Wake-up, man-up and drop the stupid class and give real classes more races, trophies & prize money.

At several rounds the bears class was the biggest. If we didn't have this class then the superbike class would be too big for the grid. Broadford has a max of 31 on the grid.

Then you'd have enough to split the C graders from A & B, or run heats and a final, like they use to.  Francis your excuses do not always take various plans into consideration.

[Francis C]

Almost john. Still not enough a & b graders and then do we tell the bears club to go somewhere else. They bring around 30 riders to the first round.
I try to maximise track time for everyone and this is the best way. But your welcome to take it all over and work with the committee on this.

[Johnny O]

'If' the BEARS class brings in extra entries I guess that is fair enough.

[Francis C]

The C grade only races have merit. At least one of the feature races is normally a C grade only affair.