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North West 200 Newcomer | Boothy’s Blog

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For the last five years, I?ve been desperate to compete in the International North West 200. Unfortunately, for one reason or another, it?s never happened? until this year, when I finally made it over to ?The Triangle?. And I loved every second of it; well nearly every second.

The NW200 is traditionally run just a few weeks before the Isle of Man TT which has, in the past, put me off entering slightly; when you?re competing as a privateer, there?s always the risk of something going wrong and scuppering your TT plans, when you?ve only got a few weeks between events. It might be a crash and a written off bike, or a broken leg, or it might just be a catastrophic engine failure. When it?s just you, your old man and a couple of mates, and you don?t have a massive budget, overcoming ?challenges? like that can be almost impossible.

But at the same time, because of the fact that the TT is so soon after the NW200, it means the NW200 is a fantastic shake-down/warm-up, for the TT. So I decided to make it happen.

As a newcomer, you can only start three races in a day, and there?d be three ?big bike? races on the Saturday, so I decided to leave the Triumph at home and just take the Kawasaki ZX-10R. I could enter the Kawasaki in the Superbike and Superstock races? so I did.

Practice was to start on the Tuesday but we sailed over on the Sunday before, as there was quite a bit of admin to do on the Monday, including signing on, a newcomers briefing and then a more technical briefing for the rest of the team.
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The first session on track, on the Tuesday, was the dedicated ?Newcomers? Laps?. The idea was for us newcomers (of which there were at least 30-odd) to split up into groups of five-or-so and follow an experienced lead rider round for a handful of laps. That would help us learn the racing lines whilst making sure nobody got carried away; the last thing the organisers want is newcomers running before they can walk.

Our lead rider was Ryan Farquhar, who definitely knows his way round the North West 200 course. Unfortunately, Ryan?s bike broke down half way round the first lap so we were left to our own devices. I don?t actually think that was such a bad thing because it meant I was able to ride at a pace that was a bit more natural? but it was far from fast, because there were quite a few nasty looking damp patches here and there.

After the Newcomers? Laps, there were a couple more practice/qualifying sessions; one for the Superbike class and one for the Superstock class. Between the sessions there was quite a bit of faffing around with tyres and wheels, thanks to irritating weather conditions, but both sessions ended up being mostly dry on Tuesday. For me, all Tuesday was about was learning my way round nice and safely, I couldn?t even tell you what laptimes I was doing, or where I ended up in the standings, because I wasn?t really interested at that point...

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