EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Army Motorcycle Road Race Team – Endurance (AMRRT-E) consists of full-time, reserve and veteran soldiers. All serving members are operationally deployable and can be called to operations at any time. All members of the team maintain their full-time military or civilian careers, the team fund their racing independently of the Army along with much-needed help from all the team supporters.
NO LIMITS RACING ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP
The AMCRRT-E compete in the No Limits Racing National Endurance Series in teams of 2-4 riders. The series takes place across 9 rounds in 2019 of between 3 and 10 hours. There is no higher classified endurance series within the UK.
RIDER INFORMATION
Team 3 Clubman 1000cc
Cpl ‘Biz’ Bizeray Suzuki GSXR1000
Veteran Lyndon Barton GSXR1000
Dean Lawes GSXR1000
Tom Giggs Yamaha YZF-R1
Team 4 Clubman 600cc
SSgt ‘Daz’ Williams Yamaha YZF-R6
Cpl ‘Robbo’ Roberts Yamaha YZF-R6
LCpl Danny Richardson Yamaha YXF-R6
Martyn Siviter Kawasaki ZX6R
Team 5 All Rookie Clubman 600cc
Capt Ryan Ingram Suzuki GSXR600
Sgt ‘Sweeney’ McSweeney Kawasaki ZX6R
LCpl Pete ‘Doogie’ Doogan Kawasaki ZX6R
LCpl Graham ‘Clowsey’ Clowse Kawasaki ZX6R
WHY SUPPORT THE TEAM?
Your company will be promoted nationwide during all race meets and track days.
Free tickets to any race meet, we will host you in the paddock and offer close race action.
Post-race reports including great race moments and proven effectiveness of your product.
Multiple social media updates.
Logo placement on all motorcycles, clearly displayed on fairings.
Round Six – Anglesey International 27 July 2019
Team 3
Team 3 arrived at Anglesey ready to go. Well Biz did as Matt and Dave were on holiday! So, team 3 version 2.0 consisted of Biz, Veteran Lyndon Barton, Tom Giggs and Dean Lawes.
Test day was good since the new 10-hour team could see what each rider was capable of. Luckily it came to light everyone was about the same pace; perfect!
Qualifying
Biz, Tom and Dean all did the bare minimum to qualify. Lyndon had made some big changes to his bike overnight and needed as much track time as he could get to test them.
Race time!
Biz put in a great start taking the team from twenty-eighth to twenty-fourth and mid pack. The lap times started to fall as Biz got into the swing of it. Dean went out next and put in more of the same and settled into a good rhythm.
Tom went next and straight from the off he hit a strong pace which continued throughout his session. Lyndon went fourth and he was out to prove a point, getting his head down but time soon passed and the rotation started again. The race carried on with consistent times from all riders aware that they had a long ten hours to crack. Once the last couple of hours were in sight the second breath came to all riders and lap-times started to fall again. Dean pushed hard knowing it was his last session and Tom did the same. Lyndon wanted to improve and get a 1’38’’ which he did lap after lap until traffic interrupted his rhythm before pitting to let biz out for the final stint until the chequered flag. The time ticked down and the flag fell and the 10-hour race was over.
Team 4
Team 4’s Robbo and Daz also drafted in some guest riders for this monumental race; namely ex team member LCpl Danny Richardson and Double 2’s Martyn Siviter (who also joined the team at Oulton).
Testing
Martyn was instructing with No Limits helping out members of the team. Unfortunately Daz and Danny couldn’t attend due to commitments with the Armed Forces. Robbo was getting a feel of the track as it was a new layout. He had also fitted a longer chain so some work was required to optimise the suspension setup to take advantage of the longer wheelbase and improve handling in the long fast corners
Qualifying
Martyn went out on the first stint putting in a lap time of 1’35’’. This put us 19th on the grid for the race and 5th in class. Robbo went out to set a time and put some laps on his new slicks leaving the rest of the time for Danny and Daz to get used to the new layout. Unfortunately, a few laps in Danny had a bike issue resulting in him having to come in early. This left Daz a little more time to try out his new suspension setup. He had changed to lighter springs early that morning; like Robbos longer wheelbase another modification to improve handling on Anglesey’s long fast corners.Last round it came to light his springs were too hard so bright and just hours before qualifying his bike was
Race
As the faster rider, we sent Martyn out to do the first 45-minute stint and get the team into a good position. Unfortunately, Danny missed his first stint due to still working on what turned out to be an electrical issue on his bike. The team decided to switch to 30-minute sessions and Danny made the second where he finally managed to work out the track and get some strong laps in. Daz put in a new personal best of 1’39’’ which was great. Half way through we all started to feel the pain of endurance racing and realised we were taking part in one hell of a race. Constantly moving up and down the grid in the C600 class. The last two stints were done by Martyn putting in 45 mins and then Danny running to the end with a 40-minute stint. All riders felt the aches and pains of the 10 hours especially the next day after a total of 349 laps!
Team 5
Team 5 is the development team of the AMRRT-E which allows soldiers to get their introduction to the race track regardless of motorbike capacity (within rules), however this year’s Rookies continue to exceed expectations.
As with the other teams, Team 5 also drafted in extra riders for the longer race. Being the development team however, we used the opportunity to bring in some Military rookies to develop them hopefully to race next year. Sweeney was joined by Capt. Ryan Ingram, LCpl Pete Doogan and LCpl Graham Clowse. The 4 had never ridden together, and Graham had never raced, so a steep learning curve was to be had!
The test day was productive and necessary. All riders seemed to suffer with some sort of set up issue. Sweeney was hitting the limiter in 6th half way down the straights and sliding his rear tyre at most corners. Ryan couldn’t find any confidence from his suspension and Grahams tyres were not happy on the Welsh tarmac. The only happy one of us was Pete, but he’d been here over fifteen times on track days so knew what he was doing. After some big setup changes to our bikes, he set about teaching us the ropes.
Qualifying
Qualifying wasn’t great! A power issue in the garage meant Sweeney was out on stone cold, brand new tyres from Bike Tyres Leeds. After getting some heat and scrubbing them in, he was called in before he could do any fast laps. Graham was also on brand new tyres and on slicks for the first time. They are notoriously slippery without heat so he took a chilled ride for qualifying to bring it home. Ryan was way off his pace; his bike was not happy. He did the minimum he needed to qualify and came in to fight his suspension setup. Pete however, the teams dark horse, positioned them well with a fast flying lap.
Race
All of Pete’s hard work was however undone on the race start! The team decided he would start the race as he was the quickest, he could hold onto the pack the longest. He lined up on the circuit for the Le Mans start and made a rapid sprint across the track to mount his bike, hit the starter and nothing! not a thing!! Added to the confusion of hearing other bikes start he selected first gear to pull away. The bike doesn’t start in gear so when he realised he switched back into neutral to try starting again. Eventually he got away however the team went into the first bend stone dead last. Fortunately it was a long race and anything can happen!
The team elected for 45-minute stints and Pete managed to climb eight places during his stint before Sweeney took over. Sweeney managed to take the team another six places and held onto 6th in class. Graham went out on a mission and performed well while Ryan took a while to get to grips with his bike. The second round of stints was very much the same but with big improvements from all! Sweeney and Pete had dropped into the 1.39s, Ryan had sorted his suspension out and Graham was putting in his best lap times. Throughout the race the team bounced between 5th and 10th; all doing very consistent times. Pete and Sweeney were lapping constantly within half a second of their best times even on their final stints! For a team that have never ridden together and participating in the longest race the UK has ever seen, they were extremely proud of themselves. An all novice team and placed 2nd in the Novice Cup in something to truly be proud of.
Results
T3 P14 Clubman 1000 P26 Overall
T4 P6 Clubman 600 P27 Overall
T5 P10 Clubman 600 P33 Overall P2 All Rookie Team
Thanks
ARMY Motorcycle Road Race Team
Army Sports Lottery
Metzeller Tyres
Bike Tyres Leeds
EBC Brakes
GBRacing Premier Motorcycle Protection
Rst-moto
Direct Distribution Services
Racebikebitz Samco Distribution
Pipe Werx motorcycle exhausts
No Limits Racing
Eazi-Grip UK
1nspireFitness
Army Endurance Motorcycle Race Team 