World Superbikes - Silverstone 28.5.06

[BobM]

I'm heading up to Silverstone on Sunday and have even pre-booked a ticket

Trouble is I'm buggered if I can find any programme or timings for any of the racing on either the Silverstone website or the WorldSBK site. Anybody point me in the right direction?

[sjtscott]

Found the tv times on the WBSK site.
Eurosport2 seems to be showing it both races Live, ITV has second race live after the F1
www.superbike.it/file/pdf/silverstone.pdf
Eurosport times appear to be 1 hour ahead of BST.

>> Edited by sjtscott on Tuesday 23 May 13:24

[BobM]

Still doesn't tell me owt about all the other races
Better give Silverstone a bell I think.

Pretty crap that there's no real info on either of the sites

[BobM]

Found it www.mcrcb-events.co.uk/gallery/WSB%20ss.pdf

[Robbo SPS]

Bob - Have you been to Silverstone before ?


I was a little dissapointed with the available views.

[BobM]

Nah, never been. The kids have nagged me a couple of times to take them to the F1 but it's never really appealed, particularly sitting for hours in the car trying to get out of there.

The tickets include roving grandstand entry (and it's free for my 15 yo son), not sure how much capacity there is but presume quite a lot because of the aforementioned F1. I gather from the MCN site they usually have some big screens up as well? I was thinking I'd probably watch it somewhere round Luffield or the final chicane.

[JOHNSTON]

Tommy Hills on pole with his wildcard ride Toselands off the pace
www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?page=motorcyclenews.articles.articleCategory.article&resourceId=4846413&articleCategory=SPORT_WSB

>> Edited by JOHNSTON on Saturday 27th May 21:32

[BobM]

Had a great day at Silverstone, got there in time to see all the warm up sessions, grabbed seats in the stand overlooking the chicane onto the start/finish straight so we could see the whole complex coming into the arena. Some fabulous racing, the Haga/Bayliss scraps were epic, and watching Toseland work his way up from 14th to 3rd in each race was exciting.

Toseland was obviously pleased, celebrated by parking up in front of us and slinging helmet and gloves into the crowd, followed by boots then stripped his leathers off and slung them over too

Made the wrong choice on the way home though, decided against the A40 cross country route home and went down to Swindon and onto the M4. OK till hit a 3 lane queue just before Leigh Delamere. Knew it was bad when there were folks playing football on the eastbound carriageway Filtered to the front just past the services and parked up with all the other bikes. Motorway had been closed for 1.5 hours by then, still didn't open for another 2 hours or so Quite surreal when we did get going though - police car and motorway patrol car leading us at 55mph in a massive convoy with all the bikes at the front.