* Eight permanent IRRC 2024 riders started at Dymokury last weekend, David Datzer, Marek Cerveny, Petr Najman, Karel Brandtner, Sebastian Frotscher, Lukas Vaclavovic, Jakub Sprojcar, Roman Bocek.
* Superbike race winner David ‘Datzii’ Datzer (0.59.173), is now overall lap-record holder at Dymokury, Horice, Stare Mesto and Trencin Airport races.
* The expected lap time progress of Thomas ‘Uccio’ Altendorfer, fastest Austrian Dymokury and European Hill Climb star, was met within the Superbike race (sixth place finish – top lap time 1.02.134), exceeding the pace from his Dymokury premiere in 2023 (1.04.964).
* Rasmus Lindstrom (also experienced on another Czech road races Horice and Stare Mesto) is the new fastest rider from Sweden in Dymokury history (1.02.619), took P5 in Superbike race as a circuit newcomer.
* Ales Sykora (1.04.806) is the new Moto 2 spec machinery lap-record holder. Piloting Kalex Honda machinery in the Supersport race, he bested the previous record time captured by Henrik Voit (astride Suter Moto 2) from 2016 (1.06.760).
* Marek Cerveny, Supersport (1.02.523) and Super Twins (1.06.282) Dymokury lap record holder lost the Twins race by only 0.015 of a second to Petr Najman (Najman did not finish the Supersport race, retiring from P2).
* Wonder Woman Racing Team’s Kristyna Jakesch unlocked a first ever road racing podium (P3 in Supersport 400 race). Jakesch announced her intention to compete as a wildcard in IRRC Supersport races at Frohburg.
* Dymokury newcomer Ales Malina (P2 in Supersport 300 race) is young home rider, under 14 years of age.
* New fastest Classics competitor is Roman Krajco (1.07.214) with Ducati 996R apparatus, ablaze with traditional nice Infostrada livery, like on Dukes straddled by World Superbike legends Carl Fogarty MBE and Troy Bayliss.
* Michal Prasek, twice second respectively from Superbike, Supersport encounters, revealed his intention to participate at the Frohburger Dreieck IRRC season finale.
* Local hero Vaclav Bittman, eighth fastest Dymokury exponent in history (1.00.998, set in 2016) made a comeback, premiering in the Supersport 400 category, (P1 and new lap record for this category – 1.11.485).
* Eight female riders took part during the weekend, the already-mentioned Kristyna Jakesch, Sarka Schmidtova (P2 X2 – Classic races), Veronika Hankocyova, Kristyna Sliwkova, Zdenka Kucerova, Anna Malinova, Marketa Bartonova and Veronika Vojenciakova
* Supersport race winner Marek Cerveny has now the Dymokury wins record (10 victories) ahead of GP 250 race winner Christopher Eder (8 wins) and Super Twins victor Petr Najman (6 wins). 70 years old legend Karel Kalina (P2 in GP 250 race) and Michal Vecko (crashed from P2 in Sport Production 125 race) additionally have captured six event victories.
* Former solo and Sidecar classics racer Petr Civin, the main Dymokury organiser (with his daughter Barborova Civinova) and Race Director, was again active in the Lap of Honour, which featured unique Jawa & CZ racing motorcycles (ex-factory bikes of Gustav Havel, Frantisek Stastny etc.) rode for example by Supermono specialist Libor Kamenicky.
* Horice Race Director Tomas Jencovsky took on all weekend at Dymokury, the lead race commentator role. His dulcet tones went down well.
* See you next year for the 13th edition of this renewed road race (since 2013) at Dymokury in September 2025!
Photo credit: Jan Vavra
Words by Jan Vavra