RIDER’S BRIEFSTHE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE AUCKLAND MOTORCYCLE CLUB INC.

JULY 2016

In This IssueMedia ReleaseBucket Results

Avalon Biddle Race ReportsRacing Calendar

AGM/PRIZE GIVING 23 July 6pm

Abalon Biddle – European Junior Cup, Donington

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PRESIDENT�S REPORT JULY 2016

Hello fellow bikers and enthusiasts,

This is an important message. The AGM iscoming soon along with our prize giving.Please make an effort to come along and hearwhat we have been up to over the past 12months.

I will be giving a presentation on our club�saccomplishments and election of officers will beheld. I�d love to see some young members stepup to the plate and offer their services and afresh prospective.

It is also time to celebrate our 2016 ClubChampions. Graeme Crosby will be presentingthe trophies and will be spending the eveningmixing and mingling.

Next season will be amazing. We will berunning a combination of circuits to keep ourracing fresh. The entry fee will be less for theclub circuit which will please a number ofmembers.

Gary Stirling will be running the 6 HourEndurance race again in October so I lookforward to that great event.

We are also running the ever popular ARTDays. Check out our excellent new websitewhich is receiving super feedback.

I had a chance to drive around the full circuit atHampton Downs recently. It�s amazing! A littlescary at the end of the straight into turn 2 withnot a lot of run off, but our officials will beensuring it�s safe to run on. Our Superbikes willbe clocking 280kph plus along the straight.

Look forward to seeing you at the AGM

Kind regardsPaul Pavletich

RACING CALENDAR

July 2016

9/10 Buckets � Mt Wellington Kart Track

August 2016

13/14 Buckets � Mt Wellington Kart Track

September 2016

10/11 Buckets � Mt Wellington Kart Track

October 2016

2 Round 1 � Club Championship Series � Hampton Downs

8/9 Buckets � Mt Wellingtoin Kart Track

16 6 Hour Endurance Race � Hampton Downs

Auckland Motorcycle Club MEDIA RELEASE

2016 AMCC AGM & PrizegivingSaturday 23 July, 2016

6pm – A Light Dinner Will Be ServedNorthern Sports Car Club Clubrooms

Mt Richmond Domain - 1110 Great South Road, OtahuhuEnter from Great South Road

Be sure to come along and celebrate the successes of the 2015-2016 AMCC Club year and participatein the election of new Office Holders for the year. It�s a great opportunity to come out and our new�home�

If you feel you would like to contribute to your Club by standing for any of the roles � or on the general committee � please get in touch with any of the current Executive.

Prize-giving and the usual excellent dinner, will round out a great night. Hopefully many - or all (?) � of the Road-Race and Miniature Road-Race prize winners can be present to accept their trophies.

Buckets

The Bucket season ended at Mt Wellington on 12 June � after 8 furious Rounds of competition. The top place-getters in each class as follows � Nathanael Diprose also won the Dominic Howe Trophy, contested on the same day.

Formula 4 Formula 5376 Nathanael Diprose 375 Nathanael Diprose292 Will Ford 183 Rick Ford160 Henk Zeeven 168 Stuart Cullen

B Grade C Grade279 Warrick Head 296 William Foster244 Jay Leahy 145 Terene Gibson150 John Steer 113 Liam Venter

Sidecar

285 Henk Zeeven & Rick Ford160 Max Olsen & Wil Killip120 Des James & Aida Gulbransen / Becki Newburry

Dominic Howe Trophy12 June, 2016

1st Nathanael Diprose2nd Rod Gibson3rd Henk Zeeven

Membership Renewal

1 July marks the start of a new AMCC Club Year, so annual memberships are due for renewal at this time. Get in touch with Neil to renew yours �. Membership form available on the AMCC website www.amcc.org.nz

International

Be sure to keep an eye on AMCC Members Avalon Biddle and Connor London � great ambassadorsfor AMCC � and both doing the business in the WIL Sport European Junior Cup. Four Rounds down, the next race will be in Germany on September 19th

Stay safe on the streets and circuits.

See you all on 23 July @ the AGM & Prizegiving � commencing 6pm � 1110 Great South Road, Otahuhu.AMCC Executive

BUCKETSThe Dominic Howe trophy race results are below (from only 1 race as the 2nd race was red flagged & not restarted due to the late hour & weather conditions):

Place Rider Laps

1 88 Nathanael Diprose: RS80 20

2 18 Rod Gibson: Aprilia TZ80 20

3 13 Henk Zeeven: FXR150 20

4 77 Blair Lambarth: FXR150 19

5 99 Steven Lee: GPR-FXR150 19

6 97 Wil Killip: FXR150 19

7 11 Jason Hearn: FXR150 19

8 51 Sharn Steadman: FXR150 18

9 17 Alex Butson: FXR150 18

10 7 Hayden Chick: FXR150 18

11 71 Daniel Hearn: FXR150 18

12 5 Desmond James: FXR150 18

13 27 Tony Higgins: FXR150 18

14 39 Mark Jeffrey: Aprilia 50 17

15 7 William Foster: FXR150 17

16 74 Dean Conway: FXR150 14

Dnf 63 Aaron Hassan: RS-FXR150 14

Dnf 26 Dylan Byrne: R15 11

Dnf 52 Will Ford: RS-TF125 6

Dnf 92 Kamil Chodor: FXR150 0

Full results of the Buckets Championship can be viewed on line and on MyLaps

Photos: Phil Kavermann

Photos: Phil Kavermann

B Grade

C Grade

Formula 5

Above: Formula 4/Below: Sidecars

Photos: Phil Kavermann

Photos: Phil Kavermann

Hi everyone

Firstly, sorry for the lengthy delay in sending out an update from round 3 of the WIL Sport EuropeanJunior Cup held nearly two weeks ago. This past week has been hectic after an invitation to race inEstonia on a superstock 600cc machine; but more about that later after a run down from DoningtonPark.

World SBK race weekend in the UK was fantastic - filled with great racing, fabulous weather and manysmiling kiwi faces! The weather part I wasn�t expecting, however the rest was normal businessresumed.

My mechanic James and I flew in on Thursday morning and headed straight to the track for a walk ofthis 4 kilometers of glorious circuit with the EJC crew. I truly love the fast, flowing layout of Doningtondespite it being very tricky to get correct.

Fridays are a long process for the EJC this year as we don�t have any riding until Free Practise 1at 5pm. This gave me the chance to watch some of the world Supersport and Superbike riders in thedifficult parts of the circuit and learn as much as possible before hitting the track myself. In themeantime, super mechanic James prepared my bike and by 5pm we were rearing to go. I ended thesession in 18th position overall, a positive start to the weekend with good feelings from the bike.

Saturday bought more sunshine and another free practise session in the morning. This didn�t go quite as well as we didn�t make enough of a jump forwards, and fell back to 20 th position. I knew I needed a fast lap to improve upon this in qualifying but also wanted to do very few laps as we race on the same tyre for Sunday. I put in a time good enough for 16th place early on, jut 0.1 seconds off 15th spot on the grid which grid which was my goal. Close but no cigar.

It was awesome to have such great support from Pole Position Travel and all their happy customersthroughout the weekend, along with Kiwis and also ex-pats who dropped by the EJC village throughoutthe weekend. I certainly felt a lot of love and really enjoyed meeting many really big fans, almost asmuch as I enjoyed the Whittakers peanut slabs we were presented! We even managed to get one

visitor - ex Auckland Motorcycle Club champion Nick Odermatt - on the grid with us to give a hand withtyre warmers etc which was really helpful.

My race early Sunday morning got off to a great start finishing the first lap in 12th position.Unfortunately I lost the tow from the front group after about three laps, and was soon swallowed up bythe group behind. From there it was a good battle as this group was fierce and I dropped back as faras 17th place at one stage. I managed a few overtakes and even on the final lap to finish in 15thposition and score one more EJC championship point! I won the Women's Cup part of the race onceagain, being fastest female on track in every session so far this year.

After Donington we made a visit to the RST factory not far from the track. It was wicked to see behindthe scenes of the high quality of the racing suits WIL Sport riders Connor London and I are privilegedto wear. We also got a tour of the MotoDirect head office which included many awesome bikes andother gear. Special thanks to RST for coming on board and supporting this year; I'm really proud to bepart of the team and most importantly know I am safe as possible on the race track! Not to mentionstylish!

I was only back at home base in Germany for one day after this before catching another plane toEstonia, where I was invited by a fellow EJC speedstar, Hannes Soomer, to compete in the first roundof their national championship. I had an absolutely fantastic weekend racing for VihurMoto on aYamaha R6 in the Superstock 600 class. Coming away with one second and one third place finish, aswell as many new friends/fans made it a very successful weekend. I was able to learn a lot fromHannes on his home track and have to say thanks to his family for their amazing hospitality.

This year has been full of opportunities and I'm really glad to be able to make the most of them! We areso excited for round 4 of the European Junior Cup next weekend in Misano, and for what the rest of the season will bring.

Thank you for the amazing support which makes this dream a reality!

Until next timeAv # 21

24 June

Hi Everyone

I'm writing to you very excited to say we finally reached the season goal of finishing inside the overalltop 10 of the WIL Sport European Junior Cup this past weekend in Misano, Italy. At one ofmy favorite circuits I managed to finish the race in a career-best 8th position and once again win theWomen's Cup part of the race!

At a stretch you could call Misano my second 'home' track, as I have spent so much time there riding inthe Italian Championship and really do love the place. My track knowledge was evident right from thebeginning of the weekend as I was fast even from the very first session on Friday. Without pushingoverly hard I held 5th place for a lot of Free Practise 1, finishing up in 10th position overall. I felt reallycomfortable after riding the R6 Superstock bike in Estonia because the CBR650f has much lesshorsepower and was therefore more manageable under acceleration in comparison to the faster600cc.

Getting low in free practise www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUi3ov8jxXY&feature=youtu.be

Saturday was another good day, ending FP2 in 11th position and qualifying in 13th after a small crashtowards the end of the session. It was nothing major but a shame to miss out on the final few laps anddrop down a few positions on the all-important starting grid for Sunday�s race. As far as the Women�sCup goes I was still four seconds a lap ahead of the next girl so we had no troubles there. The bikewas relatively unscathed and after a few repairs Saturday evening we were ready for the race onSunday. Special thank you to Arai helmets, RST leathers and gloves and Sidi boots for keeping mesafe!

As usual, Sunday was a long process as we have to watch the Superbike, Superpsort and Stock 100ccraces before ours kicks off at 3.15pm. When the time finally came and the red lights went out for ourrace, I got off to an incredible start launching off the line and closely escaping drama on the first fewcorners. This clean first lap saw me in 9th position, then passed only by one rider and I sat most therace in 10th place. On the last lap two riders at the front collided and went down, leaving me to finishthe race in 8th position. I was very happy about this as it is my best finish in the overall standings so far!It certainly didn't go unnoticed by the Superbike paddock either as we had a lot of positive feedbackand people hanging around our pit after the podium and paddock show. It was great to have evenmore Kiwis present this weekend including Seth Deveroux from Braap Media, recruited to create top-notch footage of Connor London and I.

#21 in the thick of the action All smiles on the podium

You can watch the full race and podium celebrations here: https://youtu.be/_ZQlBuk4M50(Someone was a big eager to pop the champagne! Oops!)

It feels amazing to finally finish where I knew I was capable of, and I hope you can all enjoythis moment as well because without your support it wouldn't be possible.

The European Junior Cup now has a very long break over the European summer, with the next racebeing here in Germany on September 19th. The action doesn�t stop for me however, this weekend weare competing in an 8 hour endurance race at Nurburgring, and will be testing at other various circuitsover the next two months following that. I look forward to keeping you all updated on the training andraces.

Until then, All the best.

Avalon #21

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