Knight RR team to go to WSB at Donington

**CK & AK** · 26 Aug 08, 08:39 AM

This morning we have had confirmed the fantastic news that 50% of the Knight Road Race Team will be racing at the World Superbike meeting at Donington on 4th - 7th Sept.
Clint has been offered a place on the grid in the support races - in the Thundersport GP1/Sound of Thunder races.
Due to the supreme kindness of David Pratt, Clint will be lining up on David's 2007 Buildbase 1098 bike in the Sound of Thunder Races, with AK & I there as 'support crew'. This is so exciting and also rather scarey at the same time for us all, as we are looking forwards to the circus that is WSB but also keeping in mind the financial implications of such a meeting too.
Clint will be going up from his regular 78bhp ride on the K RR team's Tango - to 186bhp on Daves 1098!! However, Clint is looking forwards to this challenge as he used to ride the big watercooled bikes in South Africa and did rather well on them there. Clint is a Ducati technician, so also has to ride on shop and customer bikes for PDI/Service work etc. We all appreciate, that as we do not have any tracktime for set up between now & next week that Clint & the bike will not have time to get to know each other, so this may not produce good results - but what an opportunity!!
Clint has 30 mins qualifying on the Friday, then a race on Saturday and also the Sunday. We would love to offer tickets to all our sponsors and friends but we are at present limited to only the 3 paddock passes. We are just so sorry that we cannot at this time take Bones or Nick with us too.

CK & AK

**stray cat** · 26 Aug 08, 08:46 AM

Hey - that is awesome!

**Steve GD** · 26 Aug 08, 08:48 AM

Congratulations, guys, and good luck!

**Dementor** · 26 Aug 08, 08:51 AM

Brilliant

**zimbo** · 26 Aug 08, 08:51 AM

Absolutely fantastic news guys, good luck Clint!!!!

**Ghost** · 26 Aug 08, 08:54 AM

Fantastic news, Good Luck Clint!!!

**Imola Duke** · 26 Aug 08, 09:11 AM

Fantastic News Knight Racing ... good luck to Clint

**David.Hicks** · 26 Aug 08, 09:39 AM

Andyrh and I will be watching from the start/finish grandstand so we'll look forward to it

**nogaromill999** · 26 Aug 08, 10:29 AM

Absolutely fantastic news Alan and Charlotte, it really is ! Very best of luck !

**Paivi** · 26 Aug 08, 10:32 AM

Wahey, good luck Clint!

Is this race likely to be shown as part of the WSB package on Eurosport?

**CK & AK** · 26 Aug 08, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paivi

Wahey, good luck Clint!

Is this race likely to be shown as part of the WSB package on Eurosport?

not sure yet Paivi - will let you know when we do. We have to remember that this is 'only' a club level race - tho held at an international meeting!

Cheers for the support all

**Tush67** · 26 Aug 08, 04:06 PM

Had problems keeping my gob shut on this one CK. Such great news...more power to Clint's elbow (over and above the extra 88bhp), that's what I say

**CK & AK** · 26 Aug 08, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tush67

Had problems keeping my gob shut on this one CK.

how you must have struggled mate!

Seriously, thanks for that - AK & I were biting our nails badly

till Clint got the OK to get the Fri & Sat off work when he spoke to his boss this morning. We so wanted to post up when we got back on Sunday, but had to hold off - and what made it worse was collecting the bike yesterday too.
Unfortunately, Clint cant get the Thurs pm off, so he's going to have to come up late in the evening after work - or early Friday.

**CK & AK** · 29 Aug 08, 04:35 PM

Just got the timetable

Event Schedule Donington, 5/6/7 September 2008,
SBK SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND N.10

FRIDAY.

TIMING
CATEGORY
PROGRAMME
09.00-09.25 (25 MINS)
SUPERSTOCK 1000
FREE PRACTICE
09.35-10.20 (45 MINS)
W SUPERSPORT
FREE PRACTICE
10.30-11.30 (45 MINS)
W SBK
FREE PRACTICE
11.45-12.15 (30 MINS)
SUPERSTOCK 600
FREE PRACTICE
13.15-14.00 (45 MINS)
W SUPERBIKE
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
14.15-15.15(60 MINS)
W SBK
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
15.30-16.15 (45 MINS)
SUPERSTOCK 1000
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
16.30-17.00 (30 MINS)
SUPERSTOCK 600
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
17.10-17.55 (45 MINS)
SUZUKI GSX R EUROPEAN CUP
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
18.05-18.35
THUNDERSPORT GP1
QUALIFYING PRACTICE

SATURDAY.

TIMING
CATEGORY
PROGRAMME
09.15-09.45 (30 MINS)
SUPERSTOCK 1000
FREE PRACTICE
10.00-10.45 (45 MINS
W SUPERSPORT
FREE PRACTICE
11.00-12.00 (60 MINS)
W SBK
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
12.15-12.45 (30 MINS)
SUPERSTOCK 600
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
12.55-13.25 (30 MINS)
PIT WALK
PIT WALK
13.45-14.30 (45 MINS)
W SUPERSPORT
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
14.45-15.45 (60 MINS)
W SBK
FREE PRACTICE
16.00
W SBK
SUPERPOLE
16.50-17.15 (25 MINS)
SUPERSTOCK 1000
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
17.30-18.10 (40 MINS)
SUZUKI GSX R EUROPEAN CUP
QUALIFYING PRACTICE
18.20
THUNDERSPORT GP1
RACE (10 LAPS KM.40.230)

SUNDAY.

TIMING
CATEGORY
PROGRAMME
09.00-09.10 (10 MINS)
SUPERSTOCK 1000
WARM UP
09.20-09.40 (20 MINS)
W SBK
WARM UP
09.50-10.10 (20 MINS)
W SUPERSPORT
WARM UP
10.40
SUPERSTOCK 1000
RACE (12 LAPS KM.48.276)
11.10-11.30 (20 MINS)
PIT WALK
PIT WALK
12.00
W SBK
RACE1 (23 LAPS KM, 92.529)
13.20
W SUPERSPORT
RACE (22 LAPS KM.88.506)
14.20
SUZUKI GSX R EUROPEAN CUP
RACE (10 LAPS KM.40.230)
15.30
W SBK
RACE2 (23 LAPS KM. 92.529)
16.45
SUPERSTOCK 600
RACE (10 LAPS KM.40.230)
17.25
THUNDERSPORT GP1
RACE (10 LAPS KM.40.230)

**CK & AK** · 03 Sep 08, 01:00 PM

Hoorah! We did get the extra ticket at the begninning of the week, so GTH (Nick#34) is coming along after all