So whilst most of the day was everyone racing individually against the clock, they did have an optional “knockout” competition in the afternoon, where each bike has a handicap based on the times you’ve run so far.

This is 1/8mile (660ft) no-prep sprint racing on an airfield and my first time out racing on a bike.

So as far as I understood the rules: with this knockout thing if you’ve been running 10s and someone else has been running 8s, they’ll get a 2sec delay on the start and have to chase you down. If both bikes have a good run they should cross the finish at the same time.

So it lets mismatched bikes run sorta fairly, which is pretty neat. If you make any mistakes and the other guy doesn’t..you’re out.

The survivors of each round go into the next.

If you somehow run better than your best time so far, you knock yourself out, which is random but an interesting twist (similar to “bracket racing” i think).

I’d been running early 11s all day and the scooter I was racing was much faster, running 8s, and somehow despite my start I got there before he could chase me down 🙂

That was only the first round of the comp and I very much lost the next race, but hey. A win, ANY win first time out is a nice thing, so I’m happy 🙂

Bizarrely it was actually my slowest run of the day (11.6).

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This is on my gen1 (2008) YZF-R125, 180cc, still; on the PCV+autotune setup with the RPM limit raised to 11.5K on the OEM ECU.

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