Do you want to watch some good scooter racing this season but are you confused about the classes? Let SLUK give you a little guidance about the changes this season and who is doing what…
Mike Bonett’s SX-alike racer was originally built for Evo Production class but now will race Production Class with an RB20 kit.
New Class – Production Evo
At last year’s BSSO meeting a suggestion was made to provide an upgrade path for riders in the massively popular Production Class (open to Vespas but entirely based on smallblock AF RB20 engines for the Lambrettas). The new class would also be based on smallblock casings but open to any untouched kit up to 200cc (therefore excluding the new Quattrini 210).
The 2018 Flake Racing Scootopia team for Production Class.
Team Flake Racing/Scootopia built a Production Evo class scooter for Mikey Bonnet of JB Tuning (far right above) to pilot, and test at Mallory Park, however with a low entry to this group, Mikey has now built an RB20 engine so that scooter can run in the conventional Production Class.
The initial suggestion was that Production Evo would become the successor to the waning Group 4 class but that idea now looks like it has died on its arse.
The Scomadi Cup riders at Mallory practice
New Class – Scomadi Cup
Racing from the same grid as Production Class is the new Scomadi Cup series using unmodified Scomadi 200s; which we wrote about here and here.
So far five riders have entered for the first meeting with another two due to join shortly. At the Mallory test day the leading Scomadis of Gary Peacock (SQooter) and John Woods were actually lapping at a very respectable pace for standard scooters. Now joined by Lee Giles (Bangkok Scooter Centre), Shaun Fairhead and Zac Tingle, this class has the potential for some really close racing. The Scomadis are slightly down on power compared to the Production Class Lambrettas they’ll share the track with, but automatic transmission could give them an edge on twistier tracks.
New Feature – Saturday Qualifying
At 2-day meetings, the racers have sacrificed their first race in order to post grid qualifying times. At the moment the exact format of the qualification scenario isn’t clear, so we can’t know how it’ll play out at the meetings but you can find out at Mallory tomorrow.
One of Norrie Kerr’s old race Vespas was revived for Mallory test day
Split Grids
Hopefully, at most of the meetings, there will actually be twice as many scooter races to watch as there was a few years ago.
PRODUCTION GRID will feature Scomadi Cup and Production Class (with Mikey Bonnet, Graham Tatton and auto-class rocketman Lee Bamber all coming out to challenge last year’s victor Justin Price) as well as any Production Auto and Production Evo machines. This season VE UK have also supported the idea of a separate Vespa Production Championship.
Sticky put Underdog through its paces at the Mallory test day
SPECIALS GRID will feature both the highly-tuned Group 6 and Group 6A (auto) machines, as well as any remaining Group 4 (piston-ported) contenders. This will also be the grid where you find Open Class machines such as Darren Conneely’s Replay water-cooled Casa Performance SSR265 Lambretta.
Get Yourself Along, the two-day season opener is at Mallory park on Saturday 14th-Sunday 15th April…
Words and photos: Sticky and Shaun Hodgkin
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Do you want to watch some good scooter racing this season but are you confused about the classes? Let SLUK give you a little guidance about the changes this season and who is doing what…
New Class – Production Evo
At last year’s BSSO meeting a suggestion was made to provide an upgrade path for riders in the massively popular Production Class (open to Vespas but entirely based on smallblock AF RB20 engines for the Lambrettas). The new class would also be based on smallblock casings but open to any untouched kit up to 200cc (therefore excluding the new Quattrini 210).
Team Flake Racing/Scootopia built a Production Evo class scooter for Mikey Bonnet of JB Tuning (far right above) to pilot, and test at Mallory Park, however with a low entry to this group, Mikey has now built an RB20 engine so that scooter can run in the conventional Production Class.
The initial suggestion was that Production Evo would become the successor to the waning Group 4 class but that idea now looks like it has died on its arse.
New Class – Scomadi Cup
Racing from the same grid as Production Class is the new Scomadi Cup series using unmodified Scomadi 200s; which we wrote about here and here.
So far five riders have entered for the first meeting with another two due to join shortly. At the Mallory test day the leading Scomadis of Gary Peacock (SQooter) and John Woods were actually lapping at a very respectable pace for standard scooters. Now joined by Lee Giles (Bangkok Scooter Centre), Shaun Fairhead and Zac Tingle, this class has the potential for some really close racing. The Scomadis are slightly down on power compared to the Production Class Lambrettas they’ll share the track with, but automatic transmission could give them an edge on twistier tracks.
New Feature – Saturday Qualifying
At 2-day meetings, the racers have sacrificed their first race in order to post grid qualifying times. At the moment the exact format of the qualification scenario isn’t clear, so we can’t know how it’ll play out at the meetings but you can find out at Mallory tomorrow.
Split Grids
Hopefully, at most of the meetings, there will actually be twice as many scooter races to watch as there was a few years ago.
PRODUCTION GRID will feature Scomadi Cup and Production Class (with Mikey Bonnet, Graham Tatton and auto-class rocketman Lee Bamber all coming out to challenge last year’s victor Justin Price) as well as any Production Auto and Production Evo machines. This season VE UK have also supported the idea of a separate Vespa Production Championship.
SPECIALS GRID will feature both the highly-tuned Group 6 and Group 6A (auto) machines, as well as any remaining Group 4 (piston-ported) contenders. This will also be the grid where you find Open Class machines such as Darren Conneely’s Replay water-cooled Casa Performance SSR265 Lambretta.
Get Yourself Along, the two-day season opener is at Mallory park on Saturday 14th-Sunday 15th April…
Words and photos: Sticky and Shaun Hodgkin
New products always in development…
One inaccuracy chaps, Group 4 goes out with the “Standards” Grid, not the “Specials”
& “Died on its arse” may be a little premature, the nature of the class with more scope for tuning means that it’s expected to take a bit longer for people to build and the group to gain traction.
Hopefully so Dave, I think Sticky was tired when he wrote that! Be good to have a race blog from you if you want to get involved this year? We’re asking for input from as many riders as possible, rather than just doing a standard type one person race review.
Just a note on the Geared Production Class (open to Lambretta & Vespa) the Vespa Club of Great Britain in conjunction with VE UK are sponsoring the highest placed Vespa’s within that class.
A great time to go Vespa racing