ROUND 12 BRANDS HATCH 18TH/19TH/20TH OCTOBER

THIS PIC IS A GREAT SHOT AFTER ALL THE HARD WORK BEN AND MIKE BMCRACING PUT IN BEN WAS 4TH OVERALL AFTER A VERY HARD MIXED WET COLD BRANDS ,THE BEST DAY WAS FRIDAY FOR QUALIFYING AS IT WAS DRY AND BEN STORMED IN WITH A 4TH SLOT GETTING POLE AND DROPPING BACK TO SECOND ROW 4TH ON THE GRID :)

THE LIGHS WENT OUT AND THE RACE WAS ON BEN WAS REALLY UP FOR THIS ROUND BRANDS BEING A VERY TOUGH TRACK FOR BEN BUT HAD BEEN CONSISTENTLY GETTING FASTER ALL WEEKEND HOW EVER THE TRACK CONDITIONS WERE TERRIBLE, GREAT START FORM BEN INTO SECOND AFTER THE FIRST LAP ONLY TO CRASH OUT OF SECOND PLACE TO PUT AN END TO THE LAST ROUND .....ONWARDS AND UPWARDS FOR NEXT YEAR BEN HAS SHOWN HES A MAIN CONTENDER FOR THE TITLE NEXT YEAR AND BEN WILL CARRY ALL HE HAS LEARNED FORWARD ,SO A BIG SHOUT OUT TO ALL INVOLVED SPONSORS FRIENDS FAMILY ALL HAVE PLAYED A BIG PART IN BEN PROGRESSION THIS YEAR XXX 

                               

                       ROUND 11 SILVERSTONE 4TH/5TH/6 OCTOBER 

BEN WAS ON ONE BIG HIGH FROM THE LAST ROUND AT DONINGTON  PARK AND WAS SET TO PUSH HARD AT THIS TRACK AS THIS IS ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE TRACKS

ALL WEEKEND BEN HAD PUSHED ONLY TO BE PIPPED IN THE LAST SECONDS OF Q2 BY CALL COOPER TOOK BENS FIRST POLE QUALIFING OFF HIM AND POSTED HIM IN A PERSONAL BEST QUALIFYING SECOND PLACE ON THE GRID BY 0.040 OF A SECOND @2.14.159AND BOTH LADS HAD BEAT THE LAP RECORD AGAIN WHICH STOOD AT 2.14.2GREAT EFFORT BEN.

RACE DAY ARRIVED AND BEN GOT A GOOD START AND SAYED WITH THE PACE OF THE 2 LADS IN FRONT TO FINISH A PERSONAL BEST 3RD PLACE AND HIS FIRST PODIUM OF THE YEAR WELL DONE BEN

                                ROUND 9 CADWELL PARK

ROUND 9 CADWELL PARK WAS GOING TO BE ALLTOUGH ONE FOR BEN ,NOT RIDING THERE FOR 2 YEARS AND ONLY ON A 400 THE 600 WAS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE ,NO BREAKING POINTS OR EXPERIENCE ON THIS  AWESOME TRACK PROVED TO BE GAME ON .

Q1 WENT VERY GOOD CONSIDERING BEN HAD NO SET UP FOR THIS TRACK 1.32.3 PUT BEN IN 6TH PLACE ................. Q2  WAS SET SATURDAY AND WANTING TO PUSH FOR Q2 CHANGES WERE MADE HOW EVER BEN STRUGGLED TO MATCH Q1S RESULT AND HAD TO SETTLE FOR BEST IN Q1 STILL 11TH OVER ALL ON THE GRID FOR RACE DAY.

BEN WAS REALLY UP FOR THIS WORKED HARD ALL WEEKEND AND AGAIN WAS PUNTED OFF THE TRACK TO REJOIN IN 19TH PLACE BUT SHONE AND PUSHED THROUGH TO GET 1 POINT AN FINISH 15TH GOOD COME BACK .

 

Donnington park

                            

                               DONINGTON PARK ROUND 10

   After cadwell park round which we new was going to be a hard weekend  Ben was in top form and ready for the task in hand .

Q1 was wet / windy and very  miserable Ben went out to get a banker in not knowing what sat weather had in stale  so onwards ,Ben was 4th in the wet untill he lost the rear and finished friday in 13th ,bike sorted for Q2 sat and on he went ....Ben was in 3rd place up till the last 1min of q2 and was allso on a hot last lap crossing the line with 1 sec to go  sec 1 purple /sec 2 /yellow .001 off/ sec 3 ran on on the last corner ....ha ho lad ....

BEST Q FOR BEN THIS YEAR SO FAR 

WELL DONE #16

IN to the race Ben was well pumped up for this race all was coming together lap times and Q in there at last . Ben had an average start held position until the hair pin when he was punted !!!!wide .............and dropped back to 10th 2 laps in Ben was back in 6th and pushing hard ...Ben was pushing and on lap6 he came across the line as out rite fastest lap record holder ............. on wards in to the race be was looking for his first podium  but lost the front at red gate never mind lad well done ill  accept lap records

every day  bud XX  

 

OUTON PARK ROUND 8 

OULTON PARK HOLD GOOD AND NOT SO GOOD TIMES FOR BEN ,BUT SAYING THAT HE LOVES THIS TRACK FAST FLOWING TEC AND BALLS....

FRIDAY WAS DRY OVERCAST AND LOOKED LIKE IT COULD AT ANY TIME SO IT WAS IMPORTANT TO GET A GOOD LAP TIME IN ASAP BEN DID THE FULL SESSION ON DRY `S AND GOT A VERY RESPECTABLE TIME IN /P 10 THIS  PUT HIM IN GOOD STEAD FOR Q2 FOR THE NEXT SESSION SATURDAY .

THE WEATHER WAS A LITTLE BETTER SATURDAY FOR Q2 SO ALL WAS ON EVERYONE UPPED THERE GAME AND AND BEN WAS IN P/7 FLAG OUT AND WITH ONLY A FEW RIDERS TO COME OVER THE LINE BEN GOT MOVED DOWN ONE PLACE SO 8TH ON THE GRID WAS FANTASTIC AS THIS WAS A PERSONAL BEST FOR BEN AND ALL SO THE 1.41 LAP TIME HE DID BEN  HAD`T BEEN AS FAST BEFORE BEATING HIS LAST VISIT BY ALL MOST .7 OF A SECOND !!!

SUNDAY RACE DAY ARRIVED BUT WE WAS THE LAST RACE OF THE DAY WITH NO WARM UP AS IT DIDN`T START TILL 12 FOR THE CHURCH SO ON .

THE LIGHTS WENT OUT AND GAME ON BEN PUSHED HARD AND CHANGED  PLACES WITH 8TH TO 6TH PLACE MEN THROUGH OUT THE RACE ONLY TO MEN AND FINISHED A FANTASTIC 8TH OVERALL TO THE FLAG PERSONAL

BEST FOR BEN GREAT PRODUCTIVE WEEKEND RACING WELL DONE BENGO!!!!XXX

ROUND 7 BRANDS HATCH GP

THIS WAS ONE BEN WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO AS HE HAD NOT HAD A LOT OF TIME ON THE GP TRACK .

BEN PUT A SOLID 4TH PLACE IN QUALIFYING ONE DAMP AND A BIT OVERCAST AND WAS HAPPY TO MAKE A FEW CHANGES TO THE SET UP FOR Q2 SATURDAY BEN PUSHED HARD IN Q2 AND MANAGED A GOOD 11TH FOR THE RACE SUNDAY.

SUNDAY WAS DRY AND BRIGHT BEN WAS READY ! LIGHT WENT OUT BEN WAS ON A GOOD FOOT OUT THE BLOCKS ONLY TO BE PUNTED OFF THE TRACK AT THE SECOND CORNER BEN STAYED ON BUT WAS PUSHED BACK TO 19TH PLACE ! ALL WAS ON FOR BEN AT THIS POINT DIGGING DEEP HE MANAGED TO PULL A FEW PLACES BACK THROUGH OUT THE RACE AND FINISHE 0.04 OFF 15TH PLACE ,SO 16TH IT WAS 

BEN GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH ROUND 6 SNETTERTON 300 5TH/7TH JULY AFTER A SUCCESSFUL CLUB MEETING WITH EMRA AT MALLORY PARK ON THE WEEKEND BEFORE BRITISH SUPERBIKE SNETTERTON 300 ROUND 6 BEN WAS ON A MASSIVE HIGH AFTER STARTING AT THE BACK OF 30 PLUS 600 RIDERS ON GRID BEN SHONE THROUGH TO FINISH BOTH 600 RACES AS OUT RIGHT RACE WINNER FIRST PODIUM FOR BEN THIS YEAR . BEN WENT FROM THERE TO SNETTERTON 300 RACE CIRCUIT THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND ,BEN HAD ONLY BEEN HERE ON A kawasaki zxr 400 2 YEARS AGO SO NO REAL TRACK TIME BE HAD BEEN ,SO IT WAS AGAIN A MASSIVE LEARNING CURVE TO BEN . FRIDAY WAS THE FIRST HURDLE FOR BEN TRYING TO GET A FOOTING ON THE TRACK ,LINES ,CORNERS ,BRAKING ,SO ON. QUALIFING1 FRIDAY AFTERNOON WAS SET AT 17TH WITH A LOT MORE TO COME . SATURDAY ARRIVED AND SEVERAL CHANGERS HAD TO BE MADE WHICH HELPED SOME PROBLEMS WITH SET UP AND QUALIFING 2 WAS SET AT 13TH NOT TO BAD BUT THERE WAS A LOT MORE IMPROVEMENTS TO COME SUNDAY . RACE DAY WARM UP WAS SLOW AS TRAFFIC WAS HEAVEY AND BEN COULDNT GET A CLEAR LAP IN SO HE WENT BACK TO WHAT HE NEW WOULD WORK . BEN HAD A GOOD START IN THE RACE HOW EVER DROPPED A COUPLE OF PLACES IN THE EARLY PART OF THE RACE BATTLED THROUGH UP INTO 13TH PLACE AND WAS CLOSING THE 8TH/9TH PLACE BOYS DOWN IN THE LAST PART OF THE RACE TO FINISH A VERY IMPRESSIVE 10TH PLACE IN THE TOP 10 FIRST TIME THIS YEAR WELL DONE LAD MASSIVE THANK YOU TO ALL THE HELP GIVEN SO FAR THIS SEASON MORE TO COME XXX

BEN GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH

ROUND 6 SNETTERTON 300

5TH/7TH JULY

AFTER A SUCCESSFUL CLUB MEETING WITH EMRA AT MALLORY PARK ON THE WEEKEND BEFORE BRITISH SUPERBIKE SNETTERTON  300 ROUND 6 BEN WAS ON A MASSIVE HIGH AFTER STARTING AT THE BACK OF 30 PLUS 600 RIDERS ON GRID BEN SHONE THROUGH TO FINISH BOTH 600 RACES AS OUT RIGHT RACE WINNER FIRST PODIUM FOR BEN THIS YEAR .

BEN WENT FROM THERE TO SNETTERTON 300 RACE CIRCUIT THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND ,BEN HAD ONLY BEEN HERE ON A kawasaki zxr 400 2 YEARS AGO SO NO REAL TRACK TIME BE HAD BEEN ,SO IT WAS AGAIN A MASSIVE LEARNING CURVE TO BEN .

FRIDAY WAS THE FIRST HURDLE FOR BEN TRYING TO GET A FOOTING ON THE TRACK ,LINES ,CORNERS ,BRAKING ,SO ON.

QUALIFING1 FRIDAY AFTERNOON WAS SET AT 17TH WITH A LOT MORE TO COME .

SATURDAY ARRIVED AND SEVERAL CHANGERS HAD TO BE MADE WHICH HELPED SOME PROBLEMS WITH SET UP AND QUALIFING 2 WAS SET AT 13TH NOT TO BAD BUT THERE WAS A LOT MORE IMPROVEMENTS TO COME SUNDAY .

RACE DAY WARM UP WAS SLOW AS TRAFFIC WAS HEAVEY AND BEN COULDNT GET A CLEAR LAP IN SO HE WENT BACK TO WHAT HE NEW WOULD WORK .

BEN HAD A GOOD START IN THE RACE HOW EVER DROPPED A COUPLE OF PLACES IN THE EARLY PART OF THE RACE BATTLED THROUGH UP INTO 13TH PLACE AND WAS CLOSING THE 8TH/9TH PLACE BOYS DOWN IN THE LAST PART OF THE RACE TO FINISH A VERY IMPRESSIVE 10TH PLACE IN THE TOP 10 FIRST TIME THIS YEAR WELL DONE LAD 

MASSIVE THANK YOU TO ALL THE HELP GIVEN SO FAR THIS SEASON MORE TO COME XXX

WSBK ROUND SUPPORT RACE ROUND 4

                         
                                  WSBK SUPPORT RACE 
                                    24TH/25TH/26THMAY

BEN WAS REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS ONE AS IT WAS THE WORLD SUPERBIKE ROUND .
BEN WAS 4TH FASTEST ON THE FREE PRACTICE DAY FRIDAY SO WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO SATURDAYS Q1 .
SATURDAY CAME AND THE WEATHER WAS JUST TO BAD TO RISK RIDING IN BENS AND THE TEAMS VIEW SO HE SAT THIS ONE OUT AS THE CONDITIONS FOR Q 2 WAS VERY GOOD AND IT WAS HOT SUNNY SO GOOD CALL ON THAT ONE .
SO OFF HE WENT ONLY TO HIGH SIDE AT TURN 7 ON THE SECOND LAP SO HE ONLY HAD 1 LAP TO WAIT AND SEE IF HE WOULD QUALIFY WHEN THE SESSION HAD FINISHED NAIL BITING STUFF AS HE DROPPED DOWN THE GRID PLACES TO 28TH ON THE SCREENS  AND STAYED THERE ! HE WAS IN BUT VERY DEEP IN THE PACK .
BENS THOUGHTS WERE HIGH EVEN THOUGH HE WAS UP AGAINST A MASSIVE CHALLENGE TO FIGHT THROUGH THE GRID PACK .
BEN RODE THE RACE OF HIS LIFE THIS TIME LAP AFTER LAP HE PICKED THEM OFF GOING FROM 28TH TO 13 IN THE POINTS AND RUNNING TOP 8 LAP TIMES 

                            TOP RIDE LAD VERY PROUD

                          

OULTON PARK 4TH/6TH  MAY

QUALIFING WENT REALLY GOOD FOR BEN THIS WEEKEND GETTING A SOLID 12TH PLACE ROW 3 ON THE GRID ,SO BEN WAS REALLY IN A GREAT POSITION .

THINGS ARE STARTING TO LOOK LIKE THE OLD BEN WE NO.

BENS CONFIDENCE IS STARTING TO COME THROUGH NOW AND SO IT WAS OFF TO THE START LINE FOR ROUND 3.

 BEN PUSHED HARD AND FINISHED THE RACE AFTER SOME GREAT BATTLES 13TH PLACE OVER ALL ,IN THE POINTS     

                                      MASSIVE WELL DONE BEN#16 

OULTON PARK 4/5/6TH MAY 2013

  ROUND 3 OULTON PARK,THIS A CIRCUIT THAT BEN HAS BEEN TO SEVERAL TIMES GOOD RESULTS 1ST 2ND ON THE 400 HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED  SO EXPECTATION WERE HIGH FROM BEN AS HE WAS STARTING TO GET INTO THE FEEL OF NEW BIKE

  BEN HAS REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT QUALIFYING FROM HERE IN FEELING GOOD ON THE BIKE WITH VERY LITTLE TIME ON IT THIS YEAR  AND THIS ROUND 3 IS WHERE HE HAS STARTED TO PROGRESS TO THE NEXT LEVAL WITH Q1 14TH AND PUSHED HARD IN Q2 TO GET THIRD ROW ON THE GRID  SO 12TH IT WAS .BEN GOT A GOOD START AND STAYED WITH THE SECON PACK IN 11TH PLACE WITH FOUR RIDERS IN FRONT OF HIM PICKING 2 OFF IN THE LAST LAP ONLY TO GO INTO HOT TAKING 8TH PLACE RUNNING ONTO THE GRASS AND FINISHING 13TH OVERALL TOP 10 WAS NEARLY THERE LAD WELL DONE BRING ON ROUND 4 DONNINGTON PARK 25/25/26MAY   SUPPORT RACE FOR THE WORLD SUPERBIKES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

 

THRUXTON ROUND 2 12/13/14 APRIL

ROUND 2 WAS JUST ROUND THE CORNER FROM BRANDS ,WITH ONLY 1 WEEK TO SORT THINGS OUT FOR THE NEXT ROUND TIME WAS TIGHT .

                                                                                          

THRUXTON IS  A GOOD TRACK FOR BEN AS ITS FAST AND FLOWING NOT LIKE THE INDY AT BRANDS .
THIS IS ONLY THE ONLY 2 TIME BEN HAS BEEN TO THIS TRACK .
Q1 WAS A BIT STEADY AS IT WAS FOR CAST TO BE BRIGHT AND SUNNY ALL WEEKEN SO BEN WENT OUT ON A SET OF SCRUBS TO GET BACK INTO THE CIRCUIT ,BIG MISTAKE AS IT RAINED SATURDAY AND MESSED BENS  PLANS FOR A PUSH IN Q2 WITH NEW TYRES HOW EVER BEN RODE WELL SAT Q2 AND WAS 8TH FASTEST IN THE RAIN WHICH WE NEW HE WAS CAPABLE OF DOING ,POS RAIN SUNDAY FOR THE RACE WOULD HAVE BEEN A PLUS FOR BEN BUT IT CAME AND WENT AND WAS DRY FOR THE RACE .
BEN MANAGE A GOOD COUPLE OF PLACES FROM 21ST ON THE GRID TO A GOOD 18TH PLACE AND JUST OUT THE POINTS 
WELL DONE .

FIRST ROUND BRANS HATCH 05/06/07/APRIL 2013

  

BRANDS HATCH 5/6/7 TH APRIL 2013

THIS WAS SET TO BE A CHALLENGE  FROM THE START FOR BEN WHO HAD ONLY HAD 1 WET PRACTICE TEST DAY TO THE START OF THE SEASON AS THE WEATHER HAS BEEN BAD AND FUNDS WOULD NOT STREACH TO GOING ABROUD LIKE SO MANY TEAM DID OVER THE WINTER , HOW EVER EXPECTATION WAS ON THE UP AS THE WEEKEND WENT ON ,DRY  Q1  22 ND AND  FOR Q2 WITH A SOLID 16TH , RACE DAY WAS DRY SO BEN NEW IT WAS GOING TO BE HARD TO BATTLE HIS WAY THROUGH ON SUCH A SMALL TRACK .

BEN  GOT CAUGHT UP IN TRAFFIC AFTER THE FIRST CORNER AND FROM THERE IN PUSHED HARD ,AND FINISHED IN A SOLID TOP 20 FINISH .

WELL DONE LAD 

15/16/17 MARCH
BRANDS HATCH INDY TEST
GOOD START FOR BEN LAST WEEK END GOOD WET TIMES ,BEN QUICKEST IN SOME SESSIONS REALLY BAD WEATHER BUT HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS .
17 DAYS 9 HOURS 12 MINS TO GREEN LIGHTS .......................

BEN GETS READY FOR 2013 SEASON WITH BMC RACING

BEN SET TO STEP FORWARD  2013

     

RACE DATES
R 1 BRANS HATCH INDY /APRIL 5/6/7
R 2 THRUXTON                  /APRIL 12/13/14
R 3 OULTON PARK           /MAY    4/5/6
R 4 KNOCKHILL               /JUNE   14/15/16 
R 5 SNETTERTON 300      /JULY    5/6/7
R 6 BRANDS HATCH GP /JULY   19/20/21
R 7 OULTON PARK         /AUGUST 9/10/11
R 8 CADWELL PARK      /AUGUST 25/25/26
R 9 DONINGTON PARK /SEPTEMBER 6/7/8
R 10 TT CIRCUIT ASSEN /SEPTEMBER 21/22/23
R 11 SILVERSTONE GP  /OCTOBER 4/5/6 
R 12 BRANDS HATCH     /OCTOBER /18/19/20
ON BEHALF OF BEN GODFREY#16
SEE YOU THERE ..........................