“Cracking Sentul”… Part 3

R5 or turn 5.. Can you imagine this slight left hand bend is the most slippery turn in Sentul during wet? And this very turn has several spectacular crashes to prove it. Yup that is R5.

During dry and hot day many take R5 with maximum throttle on 5th before braking hard entering R6/R7 chicane, but do that on wet and you will certainly test Sentul tarmac. Just recently two of my friends did just that, and on the last Kejurnas Superstock race, even the top rider from Petronas team crashes during wet in this turn.

“Cracking” Sentul Circuit… Part 2

Next is the infamous turn 3 or R3.  Infamous I say since this is one turn where several bad accident happen in Sentul. Both for two wheels and four wheels. A friend of mine badly injured when he crashed with Ducati Superbike in this very turn. I also had tasted the R3 asphalt when I highsided entering R3 early in 2008.

Just before entering R3 is the second longest straight in Sentul. So  the speed coming to R3 is about as fast as the speed coming to R1, but not like R1, right after R3 the dreaded -cement patch- and tight R4 awaits…

One fine Saturday….

Track video, camera facing forward was in my CBR, then we switched the camera facing to the back at Dyan’s bike. Two of my friend were using titanium knee slider and there were spark…!! Unfortunately when I uploaded to YouTube the video quality is bit low so the spark was not so obvious..

We were not targeting any lap time, just to have fun riding and trying to look good on the camera… It was a blast!!

Go to my friend’s blog for pics http://agustusnugroho.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/2009-january-another-saturday-on-track/

“Cracking” Sentul Circuit… Part 1

12 intimidating turn, 900m+ of long home-straight, cement patches, mix asphalt, but pure 100% rush! That is Sentul Circuit. Lap time for GP500cc around 1:23, WSBK 1:26 back in the 90’s. Current FIM Asian race clocking 1:32 and National SBK/SS in in 1:34. Yours trully in 1:47 with my CBR600RR .. ha!

Let see how I approach Sentul’s track, and as in the lap time above I am no racer and I am not planning to be one, so do read the following with that in mind.