Welcome to the New YPMRC Website !

Written by Pete Fishwick Tuesday, 17 March 2009 16:22

News Update March 17^th 2009

Welcome to the new look YPMRC website – Looks pretty cool huh – Thanks to Kevin Higerty for his hard work getting this site up and running in time for this season’s start.  Kevin is doing his Rookie season in YPM’s so watch out for that battle between him and Steve on Track !!

This is just the beginning – there is plenty of new functionality but given the recent demise of the forum we had to go live a little earlier.

New features –

Update via the web
Dynamic content
RSS feeds
Downloads
Event calendar

Updated forum

Coming Soon

Championship Tracker
Improved galleries
YPMRC shop

The forum is now within this site so please get yourself registered so we can get our community back up and running – It’s for us, the racers, and will be used as before on the old site which has now been relocated to http://tzr250.com/forums/ - If you wish to use that forum to you will need to register – Unfortunatley we don’t seem to have any old data available – I believe the new administrator is trying to bring that in but this could take some time.

This season is up and running in 10 days time – its predicted we will have a full grid at Snetterton on March 28^th including 6 of the 7 new rookies that have joined this year – This is pretty amazing considering the current financial climate we are currently experiencing – Unfortunately Rob Andrews bust his collarbone at Paddock Hill on the Race school track day – He’s bolted and plated and will be out as soon as he can.

You’ll see from the sponsors of the class we have been luck enough to continue the great support from Wayne at Norfolkline and NGK have stayed on board and add to this Rush Europe our newest sponsor has contributed £1000 worth of prizes. Add to this ARD, Norbar, Gibson Exhausts, HEL, Demon Tweeks are offering us great discount where they can on their products - Essential Rubber has helped the class enormously by taking stock of the remaining GPR70 tyres from Dunlop and supplying to the TZR/TDR riders at £23.50 a rear – This has enabled us to run a control rear tyre for the first time in our History. Hopefully this will help keep the competition as close and adhering to our budget ethos.  Unfortunately for now the YPVS riders will have to continue to run the 18” wheels and are unable to make use of this offer.

Don’t forget to see me about your YPMRC van stickers and also we will be asking all riders to run the stickers for our sponsors on their bikes so these will be handed out as soon as we have them

Given the sponsorship we have allocated out the championships as follows

Norfolkline YPM’s continues from last year

Rush Europe TZR and RDGP Championships

NGK Rookie YPM Tour

There will be spot prizes again this year for the second race on the Saturday of each meeting adding to the 3 Norfolkline prizes there will be 3 Rush Europe Prizes – so each of these races offering £150 in prizes to share between 6 different riders.

For those joining the YPMRC club you will be allocated a set of Plugs as usual – Please see myself or Rachel for these when you are next at a race meeting.

The Danny Whalin and Paul Hogan trophies will be again competed for but the format of them is different – Traditionally they have been held at the last meeting of the year but this year the Paul Hogan Trophy will be run at Oulton Park and the Danny Whalin at Brands Hatch GP meeting – This will be the 2^nd race on Saturday, grid positions will be based on the previous race and the presentation of the trophy to take place at the Saturday evening as part of the main club presentaions.

If you havent seen the new Club shirt order form or the class member ship form they can be downloaded from the new site

That’s about it for now – Please offer any feedback on the website and Forum and keep your profiles comeing in to Tony Hoare – These will be posted on the site as soon as possible.

Have great and safe season and see you in the Race Paddock soon

Fish