I might be picking up a 2007 R6 track bike to get into racing with (I have an 06 R6 already for the street so I know how to handle it and all that) The only thing is; as I am new to racing I don't know if this would be a competitive bike in a novice or am class. can any of you shed some light on this for me? What are a couple average bikes people race in these classes if this bike is not?
It really depends on your skill level vs what the bike has been tuned for. For instance: one rider on a stock R6 could beat another rider on a race-tuned R6. Depends mostly on the rider rather than the bike.
Street riding is completely different than track/race riding. if you're new to racing and (I'm going to assume) track days: I recommend attending a race or track school and get some instruction from professionals. I have the exact same bike and it's night and day on handling when you're talking street riding vs track/race input.
So the bike could be competitive against novice or am classes, but the rider might not be.
The bike is as competitive as the rider will be. There's no appreciable and meaningful difference between that R6 and the newest models.
I thought there was a thread somewhere about what a beginning roadracer needs to do, but I don't see it.
You'll need to take a school (next spring) to get your roadracing license. There are 2 regional roadracing organizations, SOAR and RACE. RACE operates exclusively at Shannonville, near Belleville. SOAR operates in Cayuga and Grand Bend. Both have a new-racer school. Both will be at the Toronto motorcycle shows in December and January.
Yeah I am aware of how much the rider makes or breaks the bike, I basically wanted to know that this isn't going to be a bike that won't hold its own when I get a bit better with it. You both seem to have the same consensus that it will be a decent competitor.
Azim, yeah I have only done one track day. That being said I was in the top 3 of the novice group and was told I could have been bumped up to the intermediate. So obviously I'm not that fast but I'm hoping to get into the novice (practice as it was put to me by a RACE rep.) class.
An '07 R6 with a little suspension work is plenty competitive with the other bikes in a 600cc class. I have one myself and it goes pretty good.
At RACE, you would be in the Novice600 or Novice Open classes which are fairly new racers, some not so new as well. Above that is Am, then Pro.
At SOAR, Novice level is called Rookie class, it is only open to new racers who have participated in LESS than 6 race weekends.
At SOAR, the class above Rookie is called Novice(the equivalent to RACE Am), then Expert(RACE Pro).
As Brian said, both RACE and SOAR have a race licensing school which is required, they run on the Friday before each Round.
You can purchase a license at the motorcycle shows(in case you had a race # in mind and wanted to try and get it before it's taken, if it's not already), then attend the school once the season comes around. SOAR's first race weekend is May 25-27 which is only 207 days away!! Also, there will likely be a test weekend sometime prior to then.
Look forward to seeing you out at the track, there's always room for a new racer in the paddock.
What are the requirements for a race weekend, do you have to be present for all 3 days?
Whichever one I sign up for do I have to be present for every single weekend during the summer or is it a sign up per weekend kinda deal? (I have a job that requires me to work fri and sat during the weekends I can get some off though)
What would be a bench mark of being competitive in the SOAR rookie or RACE novice class?
Will they keep me from getting a licence in school if I don't meet the standards?
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