AHRMA Race at New Jersey Motorsports Park

Three Vincents showed up at NJMP in 2018: David Tompkins, Scott Dell and Randy Hoffman. It is great to have three Vincents running together! Unfortunately, there was lots of misadventure this year. David attended Friday's practice and was testing out some new brakes. They proved to be sufficiently more powerful than the last brake shoes and induced a wobble during a harder than planned stop to avoid another rider. I have to admit some culpability as David was riding without a new modified steering stem. Amazingly, David got it all back together and raced the whole weekend with two second place finishes. He cut his lap time 12 seconds from the previous year.



This is a shot of David, actually two Davids, David Borbeau following on his championship Harley, but I am not sure which turn.

Three Vincents also finished both days:



Left to right: David Tompkins, Alex McLane (Norton) and Randy Hoffman. Randy was the only Vincent that stayed upright the whole weekend. Scott, who came in 4th both days ended up going down during a wet period on Sunday.



Sorry to see so much work to be done, but Scott is a top notch Vincent builder, as is David. The bikes will look undamaged at the next race!

David

A correction on Sunday's race...Scott Dell came in third, not fourth!

David

How big a circuit is this track David......? 12 seconds is a lot to scrub off per lap. Most of our tracks here are about 2.25 Km with Eastern Creek and Phillip Island some of the larger ones..........Phillip Island about 4.5 km.

It is 3.62 km or 2.25 miles. It is a fairly technical track.



David was running 1:54, which is about 70 mph average. Alex was at 1:50 with a 71.5 mph average. David did drop a lot of time, but the race a year ago was his first time on a race track, so we should all hope he drops another 12 seconds for next year!

David