Well, in a roundabout way, you missed my sarcasm and therefore point. I am NOT looking at my tacho, not that worried, but more concentrating on where I am on track, trying to push wide open till after the 200, got it to somewhere around 150 ish I guess? I change to 6th I guess coz I'm worried about bouncing off the limiter in 5th? Not looking at tacho much once into 5th I guess.

I suppose I change to 6th so I can change to 5th and use a little engine braking and be back on the throttle rather than just back off in 5th? Dunno, I haven't really mucked around too much with turn one yet, just pushing it deeper and trying apex at the last bit of ripple strip.

Still turn one is one exhilarating corner! Will try leaving in 5th next time, see how it goes. Mind you, knew bike, different gearing now, but will play around with turn one on the day.

Cheers