@@Mcfc2Rich Ah. Good enough. I was at the first meeting to take place after Tom Wheatcroft (?...so long ago), bought it and repaired it. His organization made sure that it would be bike racing first as that was, apparently, what the track was best known for. Went there many times after that during the period when people like Sheene, Roberts Spencer, Grant, Potter, Rutter, Ballington, Haslam, Hennen et al were at their peak, and that long bank on the outside of the track at the old hairpin was so crowded you couldn't see the grass. Last visit was over 20 years ago for a round of the German touring cars, by which time spectating was possible from the inside of the circuit. I'd love to visit again sometime but I'm living on the US West coast now. Portland Raceway just doesn't begin to compare. Laguna Secs is great but it's a 13 hour ride from where I live. 🤣
@@MartynCharsley you made the right decision moving to US. This country's gone so downhill over the years.. think we've had 3 days of sun this year 😏 the first clip on the video is from the inside of the track...lot of people were outside opposite too in a car park you have to pay for. First time I've ever been to a race event, I loved it. What do you work as in USA if you don't mind me asking?
@@Mcfc2Rich 👍🏻 I made the decision to move in 2006. By then my partner, American, had been living in the UK for about 4 years. So I got to experience 2 years of the Shrub and 8 years of Barack Obama's terms. Obama is justifiably regarded as one of the better US presidents and would have achieved so much more had Mitch "The Turtle" McConnell been leader of a minority in the Senate. Of course Obama couldn't possibly have foreseen the future and at that annual press corps dinner he made fun of the most thin skinned person in the room. Repeatedly! It was hilarious. Everyone laughed. Including the target. And then he announced that he'd decided to run for the office. (This is how we blame Obama for what transpired 🤣). I mention all this political stuff because the feeling you appear to have is that I'm better off here. If Biden wins, (If he even is the Dem candidate.) the world, not just the US will continue on the path it's followed for decades. If the other guy wins? All bets are off. It won't matter where you live, which country you're in. What the UK has experienced for the last 14 years will be magnified x1000. NATO will cease to exist. The UK, no longer a member of the EU, will not have the support of fellow members. You'll be on your own. Ukraine will fall. China will absolutely take control of Taiwan and the entirety of the South China Sea and the US economy, followed closely by those of the rest of the planet will collapse. (Donny reckons that eliminating taxation and replacing it with a 66% tariff based economy is the way forward. Guess what caused the worst global economic collapse in the late nineteen twenties? All that being said I think I'd rather be in the UK with my extended adult family and grandkids, than here, where everybody (almost) owns some kind of firearm and would not be remotely reticent about using it the moment the fabric of society begins to break down. The last 18 years have had ups and downs. I've had three bikes here. an XV1700 midnight warrior, a fantastic engine in a cruiser coat, and a poor substitute for an MT-01, which unbeknownst to me before moving here, was not available to the US market. According to Yamaha US, large capacity V twin naked sports bikes would never catch on. 🤣🤣🤣 I guess KTM, Ducati and Aprilia never got the memo. Bought an an FZ1 gen 2 which I still have and three years ago an FZ-10 which keeps me young. Yes, it's all in my head, but you have to cling to whatever you can of your youth as you hurtle headlong into the abyss. In the UK I drove tankers for Brenntag-Stinnes Logistics. That was my last job before emigrating. I was 49. I've been driving trucks my whole life, and saw no reason to change, so continued when I got here. Add that to a litany of poor life choices which resulted in a divorce after 13 years. So now, I'm living alone with a cat, two bikes and a Smart ForTwo cabriolet. Not terrible, but certainly not how I expected things to turn out. 🤣 Every day I exhaust myself, as do thousands of others, worrying about the outcome of the impending November election. Honestly? If you're a dyed-in-the-wool Tory or Republican or the most left of center Democrat or left wing socialist (kicked out by Sir Kier) a Trump win will spell doom for the planet. Hyperbole? Definitely not. Well, look at that! My life story and a political diatribe all in one. Bet you wish you hadn't asked. You were "lucky " I finished work early today. 🤣🤣🤣 I'm going to stop now. 🎉😂🇬🇧🌍
@@MartynCharsley 😂 it's all good fella. I'm not that clued up on politics but I do find trump as a person hard to dislike, I don't know about all the rest of it.... America is crazy, id definitely be as armed as they are if I moved out there, I feel like you'd just have to be. New Zealand sounds good to me to be fair but things didn't pan out for me early on so whether that'll happen I don't know. In UK we're introducing basic rights for workers from day 1 instead of after 2 years, crazy that basic rights are the biggest thing I've looked forward to in the workplace for a long time 😂 crazy times at the minute but I hope we pull through, if we don't we have our bikes 💪🏼 get down to one of those tavern type places, pull a Sally and take her on a road trip to Aspen 😂 we only live once ☝🏼
Very nice. The Sound is awesome.
Toprak rabit, others dog❤😂 run toprak run
Looks like it was recorded through a keyhole in Donnington Village.
@@busbyrh4037 they're called fences lad
dont be getting any ideas mate 😆
The sound and the speed; Superb.👍🏻
Level of attendance by the motorcycle sport loving public; Disappointing. 😞
@@MartynCharsley 52k+ just very spread out
@@Mcfc2Rich Ah. Good enough.
I was at the first meeting to take place after Tom Wheatcroft (?...so long ago), bought it and repaired it. His organization made sure that it would be bike racing first as that was, apparently, what the track was best known for. Went there many times after that during the period when people like Sheene, Roberts Spencer, Grant, Potter, Rutter, Ballington, Haslam, Hennen et al were at their peak, and that long bank on the outside of the track at the old hairpin was so crowded you couldn't see the grass.
Last visit was over 20 years ago for a round of the German touring cars, by which time spectating was possible from the inside of the circuit.
I'd love to visit again sometime but I'm living on the US West coast now. Portland Raceway just doesn't begin to compare.
Laguna Secs is great but it's a 13 hour ride from where I live. 🤣
@@MartynCharsley you made the right decision moving to US. This country's gone so downhill over the years.. think we've had 3 days of sun this year 😏 the first clip on the video is from the inside of the track...lot of people were outside opposite too in a car park you have to pay for. First time I've ever been to a race event, I loved it. What do you work as in USA if you don't mind me asking?
@@Mcfc2Rich 👍🏻 I made the decision to move in 2006. By then my partner, American, had been living in the UK for about 4 years.
So I got to experience 2 years of the Shrub and 8 years of Barack Obama's terms. Obama is justifiably regarded as one of the better US presidents and would have achieved so much more had Mitch "The Turtle" McConnell been leader of a minority in the Senate. Of course Obama couldn't possibly have foreseen the future and at that annual press corps dinner he made fun of the most thin skinned person in the room. Repeatedly! It was hilarious. Everyone laughed. Including the target. And then he announced that he'd decided to run for the office. (This is how we blame Obama for what transpired 🤣).
I mention all this political stuff because the feeling you appear to have is that I'm better off here. If Biden wins, (If he even is the Dem candidate.) the world, not just the US will continue on the path it's followed for decades. If the other guy wins? All bets are off. It won't matter where you live, which country you're in. What the UK has experienced for the last 14 years will be magnified x1000. NATO will cease to exist.
The UK, no longer a member of the EU, will not have the support of fellow members. You'll be on your own. Ukraine will fall. China will absolutely take control of Taiwan and the entirety of the South China Sea and the US economy, followed closely by those of the rest of the planet will collapse.
(Donny reckons that eliminating taxation and replacing it with a 66% tariff based economy is the way forward. Guess what caused the worst global economic collapse in the late nineteen twenties? All that being said I think I'd rather be in the UK with my extended adult family and grandkids, than here, where everybody (almost) owns some kind of firearm and would not be remotely reticent about using it the moment the fabric of society begins to break down.
The last 18 years have had ups and downs.
I've had three bikes here. an XV1700 midnight warrior, a fantastic engine in a cruiser coat, and a poor substitute for an MT-01, which unbeknownst to me before moving here, was not available to the US market. According to Yamaha US, large capacity V twin naked sports bikes would never catch on. 🤣🤣🤣
I guess KTM, Ducati and Aprilia never got the memo. Bought an an FZ1 gen 2 which I still have and three years ago an FZ-10 which keeps me young. Yes, it's all in my head, but you have to cling to whatever you can of your youth as you hurtle headlong into the abyss.
In the UK I drove tankers for Brenntag-Stinnes Logistics. That was my last job before emigrating. I was 49. I've been driving trucks my whole life, and saw no reason to change, so continued when I got here. Add that to a litany of poor life choices which resulted in a divorce after 13 years. So now, I'm living alone with a cat, two bikes and a Smart ForTwo cabriolet. Not terrible, but certainly not how I expected things to turn out. 🤣
Every day I exhaust myself, as do thousands of others, worrying about the outcome of the impending November election.
Honestly? If you're a dyed-in-the-wool Tory or Republican or the most left of center Democrat or left wing socialist (kicked out by Sir Kier) a Trump win will spell doom for the planet. Hyperbole? Definitely not.
Well, look at that! My life story and a political diatribe all in one. Bet you wish you hadn't asked. You were "lucky " I finished work early today. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm going to stop now. 🎉😂🇬🇧🌍
@@MartynCharsley 😂 it's all good fella. I'm not that clued up on politics but I do find trump as a person hard to dislike, I don't know about all the rest of it.... America is crazy, id definitely be as armed as they are if I moved out there, I feel like you'd just have to be. New Zealand sounds good to me to be fair but things didn't pan out for me early on so whether that'll happen I don't know. In UK we're introducing basic rights for workers from day 1 instead of after 2 years, crazy that basic rights are the biggest thing I've looked forward to in the workplace for a long time 😂 crazy times at the minute but I hope we pull through, if we don't we have our bikes 💪🏼 get down to one of those tavern type places, pull a Sally and take her on a road trip to Aspen 😂 we only live once ☝🏼