Dillon Racing Europe

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Dillon Telford...

If Telford rings a bell in your mind, you may have heard of his father, Superbike & Motard legend in NZ, Bruce Telford, well the talent continues throughout the family!

Dillon is one of New Zealand's top Aprilia & sport bike technicians, as well as a motorcycle riding coach & a top level Superbike racer.

Multi champion BEARS racer, he also holds NZ #2 in Superstock 1000 on his privately owned Limited Edition Aprilia RSV4 RF.

Which has sadly been sold to purchase a new 2017 RSV4 R-FW in Italy.

From 2005, Dillon has been preparing for this moment, to race internationally!

Not just across the ditch..

But across the world!

In Italy to be precise,

6 Rounds of high level competition against some of the worlds best riders.

From preseason testing in February & March, and one a month racing from April till October.

So much knowledge & experience to be obtained that just isn't found in New Zealand.

The team are working there butts off to raise enough money to fund the season,

We have just had a fundraising Auction in Hamilton, and were able to raise $10,000,

but this is still a long way off our target of $100,000 for a whole championship season.

Huge Thanks to all who attended & all who donated products & gifts.

Also a massive Thanks to our friend Hugh Anderson who was our guest speaker, If you haven't read his book I highly recommend it!

A massive Thanks to Hamilton Motorcycle Club who donated $3000 towards the season.

Dillon is doing rider training, to help you be a safer & more knowledgeable rider, on the road and on the track.

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Plus every one that donates will get a monthly emailed newsletter with information & updates from Italy covering not only the racing but Italian life as well.

Jo Taylor's involvement (page creator)

I first met this amazing & talented guy at a Manfeild Moto TT trackday 3 years ago, best day of my life!!

Dillon has the talent & passion to go far & to help a lot of riders in NZ, So please give generously to make his season a little less stressful so he can gain knowledge to help improve road & race riders in NZ

Mugello Race Track - Italy 10th October 2016 24 November 2016

What Dillon thought of Italy & the Mugello Racetrack, on the 10th October 2016

He was on the King Racing Team Kawasaki for the practice

BUT he will be racing his own Aprilia RSV4 R-FW next season with help from the KRT racing team.

What a experience this weekend has been !

Riding a foreign bike on a foreign track with a bunch of fast Italian racers was incredible !!!

Mugello is amazing and so many blind corners so you have to really be on your game !

Takes a lot more than 10 laps to get use to !

My first session was great with just getting use to the bike and finding my way around the track

(it was nothing like what I've watched on tv).

My second session was betting with dropping my times and getting more consistent.

My 3rd session I had a low slide in between turn2 & turn3 which caught me by surprise as I hadn't pushed any harder than the lap before

but we got it fixed and out for the last season which was a race with a rolling start,

I managed 15th out of 45 riders in the field and improved my times again with very consistent lap times and sector times.

The teams' Kawasaki bike is very different to the Aprilia, so that was hard to get use to but

I really enjoyed the bikes performance !

The team KRT Racing are outstandingly good and I look forward to working with them next season on my RSV4 Aprilia !

But for now its really time to promote this for next season !

Thanks to KRT Racing for this opportunity, I am really grateful !

Also a huge thanks to everyone who has donated to this championship season.

You all are amazing people, you all have helped my team, we have $30,000 so far, so please spread the word and help me reach my target of $100,000 so we can focus on a fabulous season.

Remember every little donation goes a long way.

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