YAMAHA Past masters Racing Club - Calendar of Events

We are lucky to get this additional race in our calendar as a guest class at the Sidecar Revival Meeting. Cadwell Park is one of my great favourites and I love to race there. The Circuit has a bit of everything and is immensely challenging with fast bends, slow bends, elevation changes and of course, the formidable Mountain.

The Yamaha Past Masters series always produces fast, exciting racing despite the relative age and simplicity of the bikes and close finishes are always the order of the day. If you love two strokes as I do, the smell is a huge bonus.

Join us at Cadwell and get swept away in the great racing, sounds, smells and camaraderie that is the YPM class.

Snetterton is nearly as far as we travel from our base in South Wales, with only Cadwell Park being more distant. It is well worth the trip to race on the 300 circuit though. There will be great racing too, with the combination of fast straights and technical bends that Snetterton 300 embodies. This layout retains the long, fast straights of the original, but has a wide range of additional bends and features to make it one of the most demanding circuits that we visit.

The new layouts are great for riders and spectators alike, with plenty of action from balls out straights to "OhMyGod!" hairpins. Bloody wonderful place! Thanks to new stands and a massive earth bank in the midfield, Snetterton is now one of the best viewing circuits on our calendar too, so come along for a great view of the action. Run as part of a packed Bemsee meeting, there is always plenty to see in this and all the other classes from teens on Ninja 300s to 1000cc Superbikes.

The spiritual home of Bemsee sees us on the Indy circuit for the closing round of 2023. This is my favourite circuit. Brands Indy is all action, the bike is never truly upright and there is no rest on a lap. Bloody marvellous! Short but beautifully formed with some of the world's greatest bends.

There is very little to compare with the thrill of pitching into Paddock Hill bend, feeling like you are diving off the end of the world, bottoming out in the dip and heading up towards balls out braking for Druids Hairpin. The view for spectators is brilliant with more or less the whole circuit being visible from a number of vantage points. Racing here in the Yamaha Past Masters series is always fast and competitive despite the age and relative simplicity of the bikes.

Close results are always the order of the day and the glorious smell of two strokes fills the nostrils of all the people there. I feel privileged to be a part of this class and to race at such a circuit where you follow the wheeltracks of heroes. It just doesn't get much better than this. Come along and get the buzz! Run as part of a packed Bemsee meeting, there is always plenty to see in this and all the other classes from teens on Kawasaki Ninjas to 1000cc Superbikes.