EVENT:
2015 MCE Insurance British Superbike
Championship Official Test 1
DATE:
Thursday 26 March 2015
CIRCUIT:
Donington Park GP
PERMIT NO:
2015/T-001 (MCRCB)
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
1.
ADMISSION TO THE CIRCUIT AND PADDOCK ARRANGEMENTS
Access to the paddock and garages will be from 13:00 Wednesday 25 March, the paddock entrance (located off the
Melbourne Road) will be open until 19:00 only, after this time access is via the main entrance and then around the
service road to the paddock gate. The paddock entrance will open again 07:00 – 19:00 on Thursday 26 March.
The circuit is promoting the test day with free admission for the public, there is a brief pit walk period scheduled for
13:15, if teams can provide any material that they have for fans along with riders to sign autographs.
Passes for all teams and riders that completed and submitted their entry prior to Thursday 19 March will be available
for collection at signing on.
1.1
SIGNING ON *** INCLUDING BSB SEASON SIGN ON ***
All riders must sign on producing a 2015 competition licence prior to going on track. Sign on will be in Race
Administration in the paddock suite on Wednesday 25 March from 15:00-18:00 and then again on Thursday 26
March from 07:30. This is an opportunity for all riders (18 years +) and team managers to sign on for the complete
season.
Start permissions are not required for these tests but will be required for BSB rounds for those wishing to complete
season sign on at the test. It should be noted that any riders holding an overseas licence (incl Ireland) will not be
covered for personal accident and repatriation at the test and are advised to arrange their own cover if required.
1.2
PIT BOX ALLOCATION
The test day is completely full and has been for a couple of weeks. Please do not turn up without having booked a
space. If you are in any doubt as to whether you booked on please call the office asap.
There are several garage shares, please park courteously, it may not be possible to get all riders’ vehicles behind the
garages so please be prepared to unload and then place your vehicle in paddock 2 or along the fence line.
There will be riders without access to a garage and power so we strongly advise those not in a garage to bring a
generator for tyre warmers etc.
RACE CONTROL/MEDICAL CENTRE
01.
DUCATI TRIOPTIONS CUP RIDERS
02.
DUCATI TRIOPTIONS CUP RIDERS
03.
PADGETTS/ACR KAWASAKI
04.
JOSH DALEY/MARSHAL NEILL/JESSE TRAYLER
05.
PAUL CURRAN/SAM COVENTRY/SAM WEST
06.
JAMIE PERRIN/FREDDY PETT/LUKE QUIGLEY
07.
PHIL WAKEFIELD/ADAM JENKINSON/ROB MCNEALY
08.
JAMES HENRY/MATTHEW PAULO/KYLE WILKS
09.
NIALL CAMPBELL/SAM COX/MICHAEL ROBERTSON
10.
RICHARD WHITE/TOM TUNSTALL/SAM THOMPSON
11.
SILICONE ENGINEERING/LEON JEACOCK
12.
APPLEYARD MACADAM/JIMMY STORRAR
13.
TEAM HARIBO STARMIX
14.
NMT NO LIMITS KAWASAKI
15.
PROFILE RACING/ SBK CITY
16.
TEAM TRACTION CONTROL
17.
PACEDAYZ TRACKDAYS
18.
A-PLANT/RIDERS MOTORCYCLES
19.
MOTODEX PERFORMANCE FIRST BMW
20.
BE WISER KAWASAKI
21.
SMITHS RACING
22.
MORELLO RACING
23.
PR RACING/ RAF RESERVES
24.
TEAM WD40
25.
TSINGTAO HAMPSHIRE M/CS MV AUGUSTA
26.
GEARLINK KAWASAKI
27.
HONDA RACING
28.
ANVIL HIRE TAG KAWASAKI
29.
HALSALL RACING TEAM
30.
LLOYDS BRITISH MOTO RAPIDO/MWR
31.
TYCO BMW
32.
JG SPEEDFIT KAWASAKI
33.
QUATTRO PLANT KAWASAKI
34.
MILWAUKEE YAMAHA
35.
BUILDBASE BMW
36.
PBM KAWASAKI
37.
COMP LOG TYRE SERVICE
38.
COMP LOG TYRE SERVICE
PADDOCK SUITE
STRICTLY No private cars beyond the line of the Paddock Suite/in paddock 1.
Final Instructions – Official Test Donington Park 260315 – Page 1 of 2
1.3
TRANSPONDERS AND COMPETITION NUMBERS
TSL Timing will be at the event, live timing will be available and results will be published on the website. There will NOT be a
photocopying results service so we recommend that you bring your own printer should you require instant copies. MCE BSB
teams, TSL Timing have upgraded all their systems during the winter, we recommend you bring all your TVs to the test to
check that they are compatible so that there are no surprises. Further information can be found on the following pages.
A charged and working transponder must be fixed to all riders motorcycles. Any rider exiting pit lane without a transponder
will be black flagged.
All machines must have their 2015 competition number (as per their MCE BSB entry) on the front as a minimum requirement
to allow identification by marshals and race control.
1.4
TO EXIT THE CIRCUIT
The only authorised pit lane entrance is the one before Goddards corner.
1.5
PRACTICE STARTS
a) Pit Lane Exit, at any time.
b) After the Chequered Flag on the site of the old Dunlop bridge straight on the right hand side
1.6
2015 BARCODING
MSVR technical control in association with Datatag will be present and take the opportunity to start the 2015 application of
the barcode ID device to the “active” motorcycle.
1.7
SERIES STICKERS
MCE BSB series logo front number plate stickers and Pirelli fork stickers for MCE BSB teams will be distributed at the tests
and Motorpoint front number plate stickers to Motorpoint Supersport teams.
USEFUL INFORMATION
Competition Logistics will be present in garage 37 & 38 and WP Fuel control fuel will be available next to the circuit fuel
pumps, there is no need to pre-order fuel just ensure you have funds with you to pay on collection.
Food will be available from the café which will be open from 07:30-16:00 on the day.
Thank you for your co-operation – we wish you a safe and successful test.
Stuart Higgs
Series Director
CONTACTS
BSB ADMINISTRATION
DONINGTON PARK
Clare Coombes
Series Administrator
01474 875296 TEL
[email protected]
01332 810048 TEL
01332 850422 FAX
Final Instructions – Official Test Donington Park 260315 – Page 2 of 2
BSB Teams – RF Timing Information Pages
2015 sees the introduction of a new set of timing information pages distributed via digital
on the circuit RF / TV feed system.
These pages are on the Freeview digital network not analogue. There can be up to 10
pages in use and these should appear on Freeview pages 501 – 510 using the names
TIMING1, TIMING2 or Timing Information Page 1, Timing Information Page 2 etc.
depending on your TV.
The pages are HD & widescreen and because of this we have been able to fit both the
classification and sector times onto the same page as well as fitting 30 competitors per
page (see below image). We have also added a predictive tracking map to the pages (see
image below) which until now has been used exclusively in Race Control.
Most modern Freeview TVs should be able to pick up this signal without the need for a
Freeview HD tuner. However, during pre-season testing we have come across some old
Freeview TVs and some no-name brands that refuse to pick up the signal or are
particularly troublesome to tune in. We have had a 90% success rate with LG, Samsung &
Sony TVs that are less than 3 years old.
Because of this we will output Page 1 (top 30) and the Eurosport pictures on analogue too
as a stop gap measure. To 100% guarantee that your TV will pick up the new timing
pages, it should have a Freeview HD tuner.
We will be checking along the garages during the pre-season Donington test and the first
few rounds to assist with any tuning issues.
New Classification page with sector times and speed traps.
Images next to Race Number:

Yellow Arrow – no position change

Red Arrow with number – dropped that many positions

Green Arrow with number – improved that many positions

Cog – In Pit

Warning Triangle – Missing
New Tracking Page – blobs move at a rate that matches the last time through that sector.