Stars at Darley Round

Big Thanks go to Paul Westerdale and his Family for allowing me to Race his Kawasaki ZXR400 at the Stars of Darley Round at Darley Moor.

I had not raced at Darley Moor for 3 years and it was my first time on the borrowed machine.

The first time out on track was a Timed/ Qualifying Practice so it was going to be fun. I qualified 3rd with a qualifying time of 1:03.12, not bad but not good enough.


In the first race I had a bad start and dropped down to 7th, we were mixing it with the steel frame 600's and this made it very difficult, I would pass them on the corners but they would pass me back on the straights and there are a few straights at Darley moor. I evetually finished the race 3rd in class but set the fastest lap time of my class with a 1:01.44.

The 2nd Race 'Formula Darley' we were again mixing it with the Pre 98's and mixed cc machines. I got a good start and went into 3rd place, but soon got took by some of the bigger bikes but I was first in my class.

This was a 15 lap race and it started to rain near the end, hence my lap times started to drop a little but still set a good lap time of 1:00.82, still some way to go off the lap record which I was hoping to take.

At the end of it all I had a Brilliant days racing and caught up with some Good friends and knocked nearly 3 secs off my lap times.