Hi Everyone

Hi all,

Names James, live in Preston, Lancs, favorite rider is Casey Stoner, as I'm the press officer for Preston and District Motorcycle club, and Casey started racing with us, in the UK.

I'm a big fan of junior riders, as that's where the new talent comes from, keep your eyes open in the future, for a lad called Alex Gault, who is fast, and beat Caseys long standing lap record at three sisters, in 2005, and still holds it...

Anyhow, hello!

James

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Katt @ Oct 6 2006, 09:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>g'day! welcome to the forum

Thx

Yeah Ben, ur right, there just isn't enough talent making it's way through, Ive seen a lot of very fast youngsters, but they don't just have the injection of cash available, the talent is there, its just the money side, and getting noticed, for instance, if you take the red bull rookies, Alex went out to Valencia to have a go at it, as it was an opportuntiy, and he might as well have saved the cash, it cost 1500 quid to get out there and enter, and what they were really after was another Danni pedrosa, all the spanish riders had had a week testing on the bike, and, knew the circuit, Alex arrives, at a unknown track, and unknown bike, and no testing or practise, got something like 7 laps - how the hell is that ever going to work??? 7 laps wouldn't be enough for Rossi to get to know a bike and track, let alone a scottish 15yr old lad!

I love the idea of the R6 cup, apart from the fact that the Aussies tried to take it over (Wont be happening again LOL) and there are now, 2 other 1 make series being with the ACU, the GSXR cup, and the Triumph 675 Triple series, which are cheaper to enter than the R6 cup - I know we hear Keith saying that the R6 cup is a bargain, the truth is, it costs around 40K, (practise bike, travelling etc) including the 18K entry fee, GSXR cup, Alex reckons ur looking at 30-35K.

the crux of it is, even if you have tons of talent, unless ur either very lucky or, have a lot of sponsors or, very rich parents, it's a very tough game to get thru the ranks, and get noticed.






Oh and thx for the comment about my site, appreciate it

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Laura69 @ Oct 6 2006, 10:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Welcome to the forum!!

Thx

Thanks everyone for thewelcomes, ooh I feel all warm and fuzzy LOL

Hi,

Yeah, bradley's doing very well for a lad that's never ridden on any of these circuits before, and although he has had a few DNF's, i think he will progress thru and onward as long as he has the backing