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John McGuinness blasts his way to a third victory of the week in Wednesday’s record-breaking Junior TT. Can he claim a place in folklore by clinching five wins at the same meeting?
McGuinness completes TT treble
OHN McGuinness brought his tally
of TT wins to six with his third victory of the week in Wednesday
afternoon’s Junior.
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Again setting lap and race records, the
Morecambe flier lined himself up to have his
name etched in TT folklore with two races still
up for grabs in the final day of racing on Friday.
No one has ever won five TTs in one year.
He produced another faultless performance
on the Tony Scott-tuned R6 to win the four-lap
race at a new record average speed of
120.57mph, with Kiwi Bruce Anstey providing
the Suzuki filling in a Yamaha sandwich in front
of a second R6 ridden by Yamaha UK’s motorcycle sales manager Jason Griffiths.
Later in the afternoon, Dave Molyneux and
Bruce
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Maria
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Daniel Sayle won their second sidecar race of
the week with another superb ride on the
home-brewed Honda, raising the lap record to
113.71mph but falling just 0.3 of a second short
of the first sub-20-minute lap by a three-wheeler.
In what was a carbon copy of the top four
places, Molyneux and Sayle led home fellow
Manxmen Nick Crowe and Darren Hope, with
Steve Norbury and Scott Parnell again holding
off Roy Hanks and Dave Wells for the final rostrum place.
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HE 1000cc Honda to be raced in
Friday’s Senior TT by RAF Corporal
Technician Gordon Blackley was airlifted to a mist-shrouded Isle of Man from
Royal Air Force Lyneham on Monday
morning, writes John Brown.
The Hercules aircraft transporting the
machine was on a routine training flight
and landed at Ronaldsway airport after
completing a tour of the Course at an altitude of 2,000 feet.
‘I got a call from Lyneham to tell me they
were dropping in at the Island and asked if
there was anything I needed,’ said Blackley.
‘The offer could not have come at a better time because the Honda was raced at
Thruxton by Keil Bryce on Sunday and
were working out what would be quickest
way to get it over here.’
Also on board were two members of the
RAF mobile news team from RAF
Innsworth near Gloucester, Corporal Heidi
Cox and information officer Barry Shaw,
who will remain on the Island until Friday.
Blackley, currently based at Brize Norton,
said that he actually worked on the
Hercules in question during the five years
he was stationed at Lyneham.
‘It is part of the routine during air crew
training to fly into civilian airports as well
as military ones and Ronaldsway and Jurby
are among the regulars,’ he said.
A former Senior Manx Grand Prix winner,
Blackley finished 15th in Tuesday’s delayed
Production 1000cc at an average speed of
116.71mph.
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FLYING MACHINE: RAF aircraft technician and TT competitor Gordon Blackley on his 1000cc Honda at Ronaldsway airport
after the bike had been flown in to the Island from Royal Air Force Lyneham HEIDI COX
Breeze in fatal F1 accident
FORMER Senior Manx Grand Prix winner Colin
Breeze died instantly when he crashed his
GSX-R 1000cc Suzuki at Quarry Bends on lap
three of Saturday’s F1 race.
The 44-year-old technician from Kilworth in
Leicestershire is thought to have clipped the
inside kerb on the left-hander just past the
Wildlife Park, high-siding him from his
machine.
An experienced rider in modern and classic
racing, Breeze finished 10th in last year’s
Production 1000 TT and was also British
Classic National champion.
He was lying 14th in Saturday’s Duke
Formula One race after two laps, averaging
more than 119mph.
Breeze was a single man but leaves two
children, aged 15 and nine.
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Hat-trick hero
McGuinness rewrites the history books
OHN McGuinness made it three wins
this week as he added a sixth TT victory to his tally in Wednesday’s fourlap Junior 600 race in which he raised the
lap record to 125.10mph on the second lap
and the race average to 122.41mph with
his R6 Yamaha.
‘I made a fast getaway and went like a
startled hare but I got a quick scare when
I saw Ian Lougher getting up off the road
when he crashed in front of me at Union
Mills on the first lap,’ said McGuinness.
‘It was pretty scary going into Handley’s
for the first time where there had been a
big road accident before the race that left
a lot of oil in the road. It’s a 130mph
approach and I didn’t have any idea what
to expect.
‘There was oil at the Mountain Box as
well and that was a bit tricky until the mar-
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shals got some cement dust on it before I
arrived there for the last time. Another
place to treat with caution was Braddan
Bridge. It’s been resurfaced and the tar
started melting and a rut appeared on the
racing line.’
McGuinness said that his plan was to
push, push all the way and do the job on
the first two laps. ‘It was fortunate that I
did build up a big lead because the fuel
light started glowing bright and clear as I
went over the Mountain for the last time.
‘I could afford to ease up a bit and that’s
what I did. I am extra pleased to have won
today because I wanted to prove that I can
still ride a 600 and win.’
Second placed Bruce Anstey, the winner
of the Junior on a ValMoto Triumph last
year, said that he lost the race because he
took things too easy on the first lap and
had a slow pit stop.
‘The tank on the TAS Suzuki has a small
neck and we had to struggle to get in
enough fuel for two laps,’ he explained.
‘We made it but I took a lot of time to catch
and pass Jason [Griffiths] again.
‘However, the big setback was that I
missed out on the opening lap, just like I
did in the Proddie race. I managed to get
back and win that time but there was no
beating John after setting myself such a
handicap.’
Anstey said that he was also ‘put off’
when he saw the Lougher incident, as was
third finisher Jason Griffiths who has made
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JUNIOR TT
THREE’S A CROWD: Jason Griffiths and Adrian Archibald both go for the same piece of tarmac as they attempt to
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Martin Finnegan’s luck finally changed with a sixth place finish
his home in Ramsey.
‘I knew it was going to be hard right from
the start and I was trying all the way to go
as quickly as I could and keep going,’ said
the Welshman.
‘I was well pleased to get on the podium
at the end of such a hectic race. I didn’t
have any problems with the bike, it was a
good race and I managed to pull away from
Richard Britton once I got ahead of him on
the second lap.’
For the second time this week a road
accident delayed the start of racing, this
time by one and half hours, as marshals
mopped up oil after a fatal road crash at
Handley’s Corner.
Riders were warned of oil flags being
shown at Braddan Bridge, Glen Helen and
the 11th milestone as well as Handley’s.
Adrian Archibald on a TAS Suzuki was
again the first rider to head off down Bray
Hill followed by Ian Lougher who got no
further than Union Mills before sliding off
his CBR-RR. He was quickly on his feet but
out of the race.
Ulsterman Ryan Farquhar, second by six
seconds to leader John McGuinness at
Glen Helen, got no further than Sulby
before stopping with smoke pouring from
the engine of his McAdoo Kawasaki.
Star newcomer Guy Martin went out at
the Black Dub while Japanese Honda rider
MIKE WADE
Jun Maeda stopped at Sulby Bridge.
When the leaders swept round Ramsey
Hairpin for the first time McGuinness was
leading Anstey on the roads and Richard
Britton on time by eight seconds.
He was still the front runner at the
Grandstand where he flashed through the
speed trap at 147.5mph after clipping a
second off Farquhar’s year-old record with
an average speed of 122.41mph.
Britton was 12.5 seconds behind and
only 1.8 seconds in front of Anstey who
was followed on time by Griffiths and
Harris, who made it three failures in a week
when he stopped at Greeba Bridge on the
second lap.
By Ramsey on the second lap Anstey was
17 seconds behind McGuinness but up to
second place ahead of Britton who was
shaking his right hand to highlight a
machine problem.
The problem became clear when he
came in to the pits and reported that he
had no gear-change down shift. Just the
same, he carried on to take fourth place.
The amazing McGuinness broke the lap
record yet again on the second lap, arriving
at the pits to refuel with a 21-second lead
over Anstey and leaving with a 34-second
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Records
tumble
yet again
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JUNIOR TT
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advantage over Griffiths who also benefited momentarily from Anstey’s lengthy
stop.
RAF man Gordon Blackley, fireman Paul
Hunt and Scotland’s Phil Stewart were
involved in a gripping three-way battle on
the roads until Stewart made a lengthy pit
stop and left the other two to carry on the
short circuit-style sort-out.
By Glen Helen on lap three McGuinness
was 38 seconds ahead of Anstey and
Griffiths, who were dead-heating, but
Britton was back to fourth, 20 seconds
behind the battling pair.
McGuinness had lost a second by
Ramsey and Anstey and Griffiths were
separated by six seconds. Britton lost a further six seconds between the two points
and he was only 10 seconds ahead of Mark
Parrett and 11 ahead of Archibald who was
destined to go out at Rhencullen with
machine trouble on the last lap.
Anstey pulled back 10 seconds over the
Mountain but McGuinness was in complete command as he went into his final
lap. Even at a reduced speed over the closing miles, he came home in record-breaking style with 17 seconds to spare over the
pursuing Kiwi.
By the finish Parrett was up to fifth, following Archibald’s retirement. Martin
Finnegan finished his first race of the
week in sixth place ahead of Blackley,
Irishman Raymond Porter who came
through from 27th on the start line, and
Hunt.
Accepted Manxman Chris Palmer, from
Castletown, rode a Nick Woodman Honda
to first in the 250cc class that was being
run for the final time, with 26th overall
position. ‘There were no troubles at all, the
bike was as sweet as nut,’ he said after
adding the final Junior two-stroke victory
to the one he achieved in the 125 UltraLightweight farewell.
The Cumbrian was 23 seconds ahead of
second in the class from Wales, Paul Owen
on a Honda.
Norman Kneen from Kirk Michael, who
was wrongly black-flagged at Sulby Bridge,
was the third 250 on his B&K Honda with
32nd place after receiving a time credit.
JUNIOR FREIGHT TRAIN: Paul Hunt chases Gordon Blackley and Phil Stewart ouf of Signpost Corner
MIKE WADE
‘Your bonus is in the post John.’ Jason Griffiths congratulates John McGuinness
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JUNIOR
LAP TIMES
Lap One
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H:MS
J. McGuinness ..18.29.6
R. Britton .........18.42.1
B. Anstey .........18.43.9
J. Griffiths ........18.51.1
S. Harris...........18.53.8
A. Archibald .....18.55.8
G. Blackley.......19.06.1
M. Parrett ........19.06.2
M. Finnegan .....19.09.4
C. Heath ..........19.14.4
P. Hunt.............19.16.8
N. Beattie ........19.17.0
R. Por ter ..........19.18.9
P. Stewar t........19.23.0
I. Hutchinson....19.24.7
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B. Anstey .........18.32.3
J. Griffiths ........18.36.7
R. Britton .........18.51.7
M. Parrett ........18.51.0
M. Finnegan .....19.00.5
G. Blackley.......19.04.5
P. Hunt.............19.03.5
C. Heath ..........19.06.5
R. Por ter ..........19.03.5
N. Beattie ........19.14.3
P. Stewar t........19.15.3
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B. Anstey .........19.28.2
J. Griffiths ........19.27.6
R. Britton .........19.48.5
M. Parrett ........19.32.8
M. Finnegan .....19.47.6
G. Blackley.......19.48.9
R. Por ter ..........19.43.7
P. Hunt.............19.50.0
C. Heath ..........20.06.7
N. Beattie ........20.09.6
P. Stewar t........20.09.7
D. Bell .............20.15.0
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B. Anstey .........18.38.6
J. Griffiths ........18.50.2
R. Britton .........18.48.5
M. Parrett ........18.57.3
M. Finnegan .....18.56.4
G. Blackley.......18.58.6
R. Por ter ..........18.55.9
P. Hunt.............18.58.6
C. Heath ..........18.56.6
N. Beattie ........19.17.2
P. Stewar t........19.16.3
G. Carswell.......19.27.8
T. Montano .......19.28.5
MPH
122.41
121.04
120.85
120.08
119.79
119.58
118.51
118.50
118.17
117.66
117.41
117.39
117.20
116.79
116.62
Lap Two
122.87
122.11
121.63
120.02
120.03
120.09
119.09
118.67
118.78
118.47
118.78
117.67
117.76
117.56
Lap Three
116.88
116.27
116.33
114.28
115.23
115.81
114.37
114.24
114.74
114.14
112.56
112.29
112.82
112.28
111.79
Lap Four
WELL DONE DAD: Junior TT winner John McGuinness gets a big smile and thumbs-up from son Ewan during the post-race celebrations on Wednesday
MIKE WADE
120.31
121.42
120.18
120.36
119.43
119.52
119.29
119.57
119.29
119.50
117.37
117.38
117.46
116.31
116.24
Chris Palmer takes the outside line on a
600 rider to claim the 250cc class
honours in the Junior race
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PORTER’S LOCK-UP
Raymond Porter gets his Suzuki well out of shape as it locks up under heavy
braking at Signpost Corner. The spectators on the hedge got quite a fright!
MIKE WADE
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H:MS
John McGuinness (Yamaha) ............1:15.06.0
Bruce Anstey (Suzuki)....................1:15.23.0
Jason Griffiths (Yamaha).................1:15.45.6
Richard Britton (Honda) .................1:16.10.8
Mark Parrett (Yamaha)...................1:16.27.3
Mar tin Finnegan (Yamaha)..............1:16.53.9
Gordon Blackley (Honda) ................1:16.58.1
Raymond Por ter (Suzuki)................1:17.02.0
Paul Hunt (Suzuki) .........................1:17.08.9
Chris Heath (Yamaha) ....................1:17.24.2
Nigel Beattie (Yamaha) ..................1:17.58.1
Ian Hutchinson (Suzuki) .................1:17.59.1
Philip Stewar t (Honda) ...................1:18.04.3
David Bell (Honda) .........................1:18.41.6
The above receive silver replicas
Gar y Carswell (Suzuki) ...................1:19.09.0
Thomas Montano (Yamaha) ............1:19.10.5
Alan Bennie (Yamaha) ....................1:19.25.8
Andy Wallace (Suzuki)....................1:19.45.6
Bruno Bonhuil (Honda) ...................1:19.49.2
Julian Bull (Yamaha).......................1:20.03.1
Ian Armstrong (Yamaha) .................1:20.07.2
Nigel Davies (Honda)......................1:20.09.9
Ian Watson (Kawasaki) ..................1:20.21.8
Barr y Wood (Yamaha) ....................1:20.27.5
Victor Gilmore (Yamaha).................1:20.31.5
Chris Palmer (Honda) .....................1:20.33.5
Paul Owen (Honda) ........................1:21.10.3
Stefano Bonetti (Yamaha)...............1:21.16.6
John Donnan (Yamaha) ...................1:21.37.0
Eric Wilson (Yamaha) .....................1:21.43.0
Rober t A. Price (Suzuki).................1:21.57.6
Norman Kneen (Honda) ..................1:22.09.7
Etienne Godar t (Yamaha)................1:22.14.4
John Leigh-Pember ton (Honda) .......1:22.21.2
MPH
120.57
120.12
119.52
118.86
118.43
117.75
117.64
117.54
117.37
116.98
116.13
116.11
115.98
115.06
114.40
114.36
114.00
113.53
113.44
113.11
113.02
112.95
112.67
112.54
112.45
112.40
111.55
111.41
110.94
110.81
110.48
110.21
110.10
109.95
JUNIOR RESULTS
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Mark Tyrrell (Honda) ......................1:22.29.6
David Madsen-Mygdal (Suzuki) .......1:22.30.5
Phil Har vey (Yamaha) .....................1:22.35.1
The above receive bronze replicas
David Castle (Suzuki) .....................1:22.48.4
George Spence (Yamaha) ...............1:23.00.2
Giorgio Cantalupo (Honda) .............1:23.04.0
Jon Vincent (Honda) .......................1:23.50.4
Thomas Schonfelder (Suzuki) ..........1:24.00.3
Tony Moss (Suzuki) ........................1:24.04.7
Marc Dufour (Yamaha)....................1:24.18.3
Rober t J. Price (Suzuki) .................1:24.33.5
Steven Sinnott (Kawasaki) .............1:24.44.8
Philip Gilmour (Yamaha) .................1:24.46.2
Walter Cordoba (Honda) .................1:24.48.7
Duncan Baillie (Yamaha).................1:24.50.3
Mar tin Hamberg (Kawasaki) ...........1:25.16.4
Fabrice Miguet (Yamaha)................1:25.29.6
Jeff Jones (Yamaha) .......................1:25.40.1
Kevin Strowger (Honda) .................1:25.50.2
Kevin Murphy (Triumph)..................1:27.09.3
Geoff Sawyer (Honda) ....................1:28.21.2
Todd Welch (Suzuki).......................1:29.04.2
Fabienne Migout (Kawasaki) ..........1:29.21.9
Laurent Astier (Suzuki)...................1:29.55.2
Pat Barnes (Kawasaki)...................1:30.14.1
Filip Strbat (Kawasaki)...................1:32.31.3
Jerome Faveyrial (Yamaha) .............1:33.01.0
Fastest lap John McGuinness 18m 25.4s, 122.87mph
109.76
109.74
109.64
109.35
109.09
109.01
108.00
107.79
107.69
107.41
107.08
106.85
106.82
106.76
106.73
106.19
105.91
105.70
105.49
103.89
102.48
101.66
101.32
100.70
100.35
97.87
97.35
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Ewan Hamilton came to
grief on the last lap of the
Lightweight 250 race at last
week’s De Montfort Pre-TT
Classic on the Billown
course. He was leading the
race with just 350 yards to
go PHOTO: GEOFF CANNELL
Palmer hints at
Championship
comeback
Speed queen Maria
125 RACE winner Chris Palmer
intimated after Monday’s race that he
might be ready to make a comeback in
the British Championships.
Palmer won the 125 British crown in
1998, a couple of years before he
moved to the Island to live.
‘There are rumours that I might be
going back to do a few rounds after
the TT,’ he said, with a wry smile.
He also said that he fancied a dabble
in a sidecar — as a driver, not as a
passenger.
Palmer dedicated his second 125 TT
win to David Jefferies.
‘DJ was the man around here,’ said
Palmer. ‘I have to admit part of this
year’s success has to be down to him.
Every night for the last three months I
have watched the video of David’s
onboard lap before going to bed.
‘Every night, honest. It’s driven the
wife mad!’
WIN A SUPERB
TT RACE SOUVENIR
JACKET AND
CALENDAR
Costello laps at 114.73mph
ESPAIR turned to delight for
Maria Costello after she was
black-flagged at Ramsey during
the 1000cc Production TT and then
learnt that she was the fastest ever
female rider on the TT Course, writes
John Brown.
‘They stopped me at Parliament
Square on the second lap because there
was something loose on my bike, I was
gutted,’ said the model and journalist
from the Northamptonshire village of
Spratton.
She dejectedly ‘pootled back’ to the
Grandstand along the coast road where
she was greeted by her mechanic with
the news that her opening lap at
114.73mph on her Suzuki was six seconds less than the previous best set by
D
Sandra Barnett seven years ago.
‘I rushed off to check at the race office
and, yes it was true, I’m ecstatic, it’s put
a massive silver lining on the whole
affair. It’s what I’ve always wanted to do
and means a lot to me. Now I can chill
out until my 600 race on Friday.’
It was touch and go whether Maria
would be able to race at this year’s TT
because she broke her collarbone when
she crashed during a Press Day five
weeks before she arrived in the Island.
‘I missed the North West 200 but I was
determined to make the TT and worked
very hard with a physio to get fit in
time,’ said Maria who achieved her
ambition a day before celebrating her
27th birthday.
‘What a present, I’m over the moon.’
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PI BI S
NICK Crowe was forced to slacken his
pace on the last lap of Saturday’s
sidecar race as he feared there was a
front wheel puncture on his DMR
Honda outfit.
‘It went straight on at Handley’s and
I had another scare somewhere else,
so I was certain something was wrong.
But it was still inflated when I got to
the finish,’ said runner-up Crowe in the
winners’ enclosure.
■ IAN Hutchinson lay in a hospital bed
after his practice smash at the North
West 200 convinced he would miss his
TT debut.
Hutchinson, the winner of last year’s
Senior Newcomers race at the Manx
GP, crashed on cold tyres at the first
right-hand corner just a couple of
hundred yards from the start, chipping
his pelvis and suffering fluid on the
knee.
‘I got over it really quickly,’ said the
Bingley man, waiting his turn prior to
the aborted Production 1000 start.
‘The knee is giving me more gyp than
the pelvis.’
■ AUTO-CYCLE Union official Don
Ryder, president of the stewards of the
meeting (International Jury), pulled
Southern 100 Racing Club chairman
Phil Taubman up on his claim for the
winning ACU club team award in
Monday’s 125 TT.
‘Don reckoned that one of our three
riders was on a MCUI licence, which he
was, but what Don didn’t know was
that the rule excluding riders from
different motorcycle jurisdictions riding
together was scrubbed from the
regulations for the 2004 TT,’ smiled
Tubby confidently.
The winning Southern 100 MCRC
team was Chris Palmer, Robert Dunlop
and Matt Jackson.
The Manufacturers Team award was a
foregone conclusion for Honda with
Chris Palmer, Robert Dunlop and Nigel
Beattie the top three finishers in a field
dominated by RS Hondas.
Darley Moor MCC won the ACU Club
team award in the F1 with Ian Lougher,
race winner John McGuinness and Jim
Hodson.
■ TED Fenwick, the 76-year-old racer
from York, who finished runner-up in the
250 Singles race at Billown last week,
said he will be back next year for more.
‘I want to reserve race No 77 in
advance,’ he insisted.
■ WE have been asked to clarify the
short article which appeared in Pit Bits
(edition two of TT News) regarding The
Friends of the TT Riders Association.
FoTTRA was established by the TTRA
with the objective of raising more
money for its charitable causes. The
TTRA, whose membership is open
exclusively to motorcycle racers who
have started a TT race in the Isle of
Man, provides money and support to TT
riders and their dependants who are in
need as a result of injury, death or
other circumstances.
Membership of the ‘Friends’ is open
to anyone with an interest in the TT
Races and supports its aim of providing
more funds to the TTRA so that this
charity’s work can be increased.
Likely applicants are sponsors,
officials, mechanics, marshals or longtime enthusiasts of the TT.
For more details of membership of
FoTTRA or how to make donations
please contact either:
Tony East, The Old Vicarage, Main
Road, Kirk Michael or e-mail
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■ INQUESTS into the deaths of Manx
sidecar passenger Paul Cowley and F1
competitor Colin Breeze of Kibworth
are to be held in Douglas this Thursday
morning.
■ THE 49th Isle of Man International
Vintage Motor Cycle Club TT Rally
continues this week as follows:
Thursday, June 10, TT Grandstand,
Douglas 10am; promenade, Peel
11.30am; Castletown Square 3pm.
The lap of the original TT Course will
start from opposite Tynwald Hill, St
John’s at 1.45pm on the Thursday.
The oldest machine in the rally is
thought to date back to 1920.
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Island to get
another Parrish?
ORMER TT and GP regular Steve
Parrish is the latest star name
looking to set up home on the
Isle of Man.
Nowadays better known for his work
with television as a race commentator
for BBC Grandstand on British and
World Superbikes, Parrish was on the
Island for a brief visit early last week
with ex-TT winner Barry Woodland
and former World Endurance champion Terry Rymer.
It was Steve’s second visit to the
Island in recent months as he is currently looking for a suitable property to
purchase here with a view to moving
across in the not too distant future.
A good supporter of the TT, ‘Stavros’
was one of the leading British riders of
F
the late 1970s and early 80s, riding a
Heron Suzuki alongside his great friend
Barry Sheene in the 500GP class in 1977
when he finished fifth overall in the
series.
He later switched to Mitsui Yamaha
and had several good finishes in the TT,
including a third in the Formula One
TT, only to be later excluded for having
an oversized tank fitted to his machine.
Upon retiring from bikes in 1986, he
went on to manage the Yamaha UK
Superbike team and then turned to
truck racing for a good number of
years, winning five European titles.
Parrish would like to live in the south
of the Island to be close to the airport
for commuting back and forth to the
United Kingdom.
Swallow receives
Jarmann Trophy
Many leading riders have set up
home in the Island over the years, most
notably six-times world champion
Geoff Duke who moved across in the
early 1960s and has lived here ever
since.
Others include reigning World
Superbike champion Neil Hodgson,
Jason Griffiths, the late Steve Hislop
and Cromie McCandless, Alex George
for a while in the early 80s and Tom
Herron, who sadly died prior to moving
into a property he purchased in
Tromode in 1979.
Former World Supersport champion
Andrew Pitt is another star hoping to
set up camp on the Island.
John Watterson
Steve Parrish (left) with Barry Woodland and Terry Rymer. Well known as a prize prankster,
Parrish introduced Woodland and Rymer as his father and son! JW
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Bill Swallow receives the Peter Jarmann trophy from Edith Aubrey,
sister of the late Swiss competitor
RON CLARKE
BILL Swallow is the first recipient
of the Peter Jarmann trophy,
awarded to the leading rider of a
single-cylinder machine in the
500cc Senior race at last week’s De
Montfort Pre-TT Classic on the
Billown Course.
Bill was in fact the winner of the
race on Dick Linton’s 444cc
Aermacchi. Peter’s sister Edith
Aubrey was on hand to present the
trophy to Bill.
The inscription reads: ‘A great
supporter of the Billown Course
and a true friend of the Southern
100 Motorcycle Club.’
Genial Swiss rider Peter rode the
very first Pre-TT Classic in 1988,
returning every year thereafter. He
also rode the TT proper, the postT T St e a m Pa c k e t Ra c e s, t h e
Southern 100 and the MGP.
His untimely death in the Lap of
Honour at last year’s TT, on the
same Bultaco he had ridden in the
De Montfort Pre-TT Classic a week
earlier, was a shock to everyone
involved in road racing, none more
so than his many friends at the
Southern 100.
BBC Broadcaster taken ill
VETERAN broadcaster Harold
Crooks, who has been filing TT
reports for BBC Northern Ireland
for many years, was taken ill at
the Grandstand Press Office after
racing on Tuesday.
Harold was taken to Noble’s
Hospital in Douglas where he
will be detained for tests for two
days before returning to his
Northern Ireland home in
Ballymena.
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MAC 2
‘It’s a great little fun bike to
ride, a bit like a scooter’
— John McGuinness after winning
his second TT of the week
OHN McGuinness grabbed the
final 400cc Lightweight TT
glory in convincing style with a
record-breaking race average speed
of 110.28mph on his trusty RLR
Motorsports Honda on Monday.
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But he failed to better his pal Jim
Moodie’s 11-year lap record that will stand
in the record books for ever at 112.40 mph.
‘I really enjoyed that, it’s a great little fun
bike to ride, a bit like a scooter,’ said
McGuinness who led the 400 farewell from
start to finish and headed second-placed
TT stalwart Steve Linsdell by 33 seconds.
Even a couple of mishaps failed to spoil
the fun for the rider from Morecambe who
became the fastest ever rider on the
Mountain Course during Saturday’s
Formula One race.
‘On the first lap at Greeba Bridge I felt my
boot come loose, during the long wait for
the start I forgot to tape it up,’ he said.
‘From then on I kept my leg firmly against
the bike because I didn’t want to risk having a marshal seeing it and thinking it was
something hanging off the bike.
‘I even forgot to do something about it
when I stopped at the pits, so I didn’t dare
to hang off the bike too much for most of
the race.’
The refuelling stop led to the most
400 TT
Race report by John Brown
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John McGuinness continued his history-making TT campaign by winning the last ever Lightweight 400 TT
uncomfortable few minutes of the race for
McGuinness. ‘The crew didn’t screw the
fuel cap down properly and some petrol
sprayed out. It got warm and then turned
cold in the ballroom area until I
managed to tighten up the cap,’
he said. ‘Anyway everything’s
intact!’
Linsdell, a longstanding
motorcycle dealer from the
Bedfordshire town of
Man small
Flitwick, was delighted to finish
in the second place he secured
on the second lap.
‘I’ve been struggling to get
back to the front for so long, it’s
re a l l y m a d e m y d a y,’ s a i d
Linsdell whose only hiccup
came when he caught his foot
under the gear lever as he went
over the jump at the top of
Crosby hill. ‘Certainly made the
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Roy Richardson roared through the field to secure a fine fourth place
Yamaha hit the high revs,’ he commented.
Senior Manx GP winner in 2002 Mark
Parrett was delighted to end his first ever
400cc race on the rostrum after working
his way up from fifth at the end of the first
lap on the same Intersport Honda that
took Richard ‘Milky’ Quayle to victory two
years ago.
‘I only did three standing start laps during practice because the owner of the bike,
Richard Turner, was concerned about the
high mileage the engine had done,’ said
JW
Parrett from Midhurst, Sussex.
‘Because of this we didn’t have a lot of
chance to work on the set-up of the bike
and the gearing was wrong for some of the
corners. Other than that there were no
problems, it didn’t miss a beat.’
Blackpool’s Roy Richardson missed the
podium by just under 40 seconds after
holding second place on the first lap. ‘I was
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A delighted Steve Linsdell (below and inset) piloted his Flitwick Yamaha to second
spot on the podium in Monday’s Lightweight 400 JW/MIKE WADE
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Parrett
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podium
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400 LAP
TIMES
Lap One
400 TT
Mark Parrett finished just three seconds adrift of runner-up Steve Linsdell after recording the second fastest lap of the race
ure,’ said the brother-in-law of Saturday’s
sidecar TT runner-up Nick Crowe.
‘I didn’t stop at the end of the second lap
but decided to go for a splash and dash at
the end of the third. Even then I was thinking about carrying on and if I had jetted
down a bit I think I would have made it,’
said Slous, who went ahead of Barton to
hold fifth place at the end of the third lap.
The stop then allowed Barton to regain
the advantage and finish 40 seconds ahead
of his fellow Manxman.
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Welshman Jason Griffiths, who resides in
Ramsey, was running sixth after two laps
but slowed when his Yamaha struck electrical problems that put an end to his race
at The Nook on the final lap.
Parrett, meanwhile, closed to within just
three seconds of runner-up Linsdell with
the second-fastest lap of the race at 111.49
mph.
Dave Madsen-Mygdal’s Honda failed
fire-up and although he was given permission to start from the back of the grid the
h:m.s
John McGuinness (Honda) ...........1:22.06.4
Steve Linsdell (Yamaha) ..............1:22.39.6
Mark Parrett (Honda)..................1:22.42.4
Roy Richardson (Honda) ..............1:23.02.0
John Bar ton (Yamaha) .................1:23.44.8
Derran Slous (Yamaha) ................1:24.04.7
Alan Rennie (Yamaha) .................1:24.47.8
Jim Hodson (Yamaha) ..................1:24.54.7
Thomas Montano (Yamaha) .........1:25.18.9
Rober t J. Price (Yamaha).............1:25.24.8
Manfred Vogl (Kawasaki).............1:25.42.2
Alex Donaldson (Kawasaki) .........1:26.44.5
Paul Dobbs (Kawasaki) ...............1:26.54.1
Rober t A. Price (Yamaha) ............1:27.07.7
Julian Bull (Kawasaki) ................1:27.16.7
Chris Petty (Honda) ....................1:27.23.9
Mike Rose (Kawasaki) ................1:27.34.9
Alan Bud Jackson (Honda)...........1:27.39.9
Derek Whalley (Honda)................1:28.02.0
Paul Owen (Honda) .....................1:28.41.2
Tony Moss (Honda) .....................1:28.47.8
David Clack (Honda) ...................1:28.49.0
Umber to Rumiano (Honda) ..........1:29.00.3
mph
110.28
109.54
109.48
109.05
108.12
107.69
106.78
106.64
106.23
106.01
105.65
104.39
104.20
103.92
103.75
103.60
103.40
103.29
102.86
102.10
101.97
101.95
101.73
JW
rider from Douglas finally gave up and
pushed his bike back to the paddock.
Irishman Martin Finnegan was also a
non-starter because of a flat battery on his
Yamaha and Ivan Coates from Peel was
taken to hospital with a dislocated shoulder after crashing at Windy Corner.
On a bright note the only female in the
race, Anita Buxton, riding in the Martin
Bullock team, was awarded the last bronze
replica after taking over Bruno Bonhuil’s
Kawasaki and finishing 29th.
400 RESULTS
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Dirk Kaletsch (Honda) .................1:29.14.0
101.47
Peter McGee (Yamaha) ...............1:29.15.0
101.45
Craig McLean (Honda) ................1:29.21.1
101.34
Henr y Bell (Yamaha) ...................1:29.31.0
101.15
Alan Chamley (Kawasaki) ............1:29.31.0
101.15
Anita Buxton (Kawasaki).............1:29.50.7
100.78
30
Kevin Murphy (Honda) .................1:30.36.5
99.93
31
Richard Bairstow (Honda)............1:30.46.9
99.74
32
Rich Hawkins (Yamaha)...............1:31.03.9
99.43
33
Heinz Chittka (Honda) .................1:31.52.9
99.55
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Patrick Mar tin (Honda) ...............1:33.21.3
96.99
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Axel Rauch (Honda) ....................1:33.42.9
96.62
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David Bone (Yamaha) ..................1:34.03.7
96.26
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Andrew Reynolds (Kawasaki).......1:34.13.6
96.09
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Wade Boyd (Honda) ....................1:36.57.5
93.39
39
Geoff Sawyer (Yamaha) ...............1:37.02.7
93.30
40
Bob Simmons (Honda).................1:38.16.7
92.13
Fastest lap McGuinness 20 minutes 12.3 seconds (112.04mph)
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J. McGuinness ...20.18.8
R. Richardson....20.35.1
R. Britton ..........20.38.2
S. Linsdell .........20.41.1
M. Parrett .........20.43.5
J. Bar ton ...........20.44.1
J. Griffiths .........20.54.5
A. Wallace.........20.57.5
J. Hodson ..........21.06.2
D. Slous ............21.06.3
R. J. Price .........21.06.9
A. Bennie ..........21.08.4
A. Crossan ........21.16.6
M. Vogl .............21.21.4
T. Montano ........21.21.4
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S. Linsdell .........20.28.4
M. Parrett .........20.33.7
J. Bar ton ...........20.43.2
J. Griffiths .........20.43.4
A. Wallace.........20.49.2
D. Slous ............20.49.1
J. Hodson ..........20.56.1
A. Bennie ..........20.57.8
R. J. Price .........21.03.6
A. Crossan ........20.57.6
M. Vogl .............21.04.5
T. Montano ........21.06.9
J. Bull ...............21.29.5
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M. Parrett .........21.07.0
D. Slous ............20.42.8
J. Bar ton ...........21.29.5
J. Griffiths .........21.20.2
M. Vogl .............21.17.8
J. Hodson ..........21.46.1
A. Bennie ..........21.43.7
A. Crossan ........21.38.8
R. J. Price .........21.54.0
T. Montano ........21.53.1
P. Dobbs ...........22.23.3
J. Bull ...............22.25.6
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S. Linsdell .........20.19.7
M. Parrett .........20.18.2
J. Bar ton ...........20.48.0
D. Slous ............21.26.5
A. Bennie ..........20.57.9
J. Hodson ..........21.06.3
T. Montano ........20.57.5
R. J. Price .........21.20.3
M. Vogl .............22.00.7
A. Donaldson .....21.20.4
P. Dobbs ...........21.34.5
R. A. Price ........21.37.0
J. Bull ...............21.56.4
111.44
109.97
109.69
109.44
109.23
109.17
108.27
108.01
107.27
107.26
107.21
107.08
106.39
105.99
105.99
Lap Two
From Page 8
really hoping to make it this time,’ said
Richardson, who first raced in the Island in
1986 and switched to the TT after winning
the 1997 Junior Manx GP.
‘The Honda went off song on the last lap,
it was simply a bit tired, and the chain was
slack and jumping about,’ he added.
McGuinness was definitely a man on a
mission as he powered off the line at the
delayed start and as he rounded Glen
Helen for the first time he held a 16-second
advantage over Richardson who was 26th
away from the start and caught out the
timekeepers with a rapid move through
the field.
‘I should have asked to have been moved
up, I lost almost as much time dealing traffic on the first two laps as I did when the
bike went off on the last,’ he commented.
Richard Britton, destined to go out at
Glen Vine on the second lap with machine
trouble, held third spot from Linsdell and
Parrett.
At the end of lap one McGuinness, with
a 21-second lead, went through the speed
trap at 128.2mph with the same four riders
in his wake.
The Lancastrian flyer was in to refuel at
mid-race, 22 seconds clear of Linsdell who
made a successful challenge for second
spot coming over the Mountain.
With McGuinness continuing to dominate as he powered towards his second win
of the week, Linsdell consolidated second
place as Parrett slotted into the third slot
on lap three.
Sixth-finishing John Barton from Crosby
was the top local at the finish, but not
before he was put under pressure by
Derran Slous, 33, of Ramsey, contesting his
first TT, who had ideas of making a nonstop ride on his Yamaha.
‘I had a special tank made just under the
maximum permitted but as we had so
much trouble during practice we were not
able to work out a true consumption fig-
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Johnny Barton leads Jason Griffiths on the road on his way to
JOHN WATTERSON
becoming the leading local in sixth spot
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109.97
110.09
109.25
109.23
108.73
108.74
108.13
107.98
107.49
108.00
107.41
107.21
105.33
Lap Three
107.51
106.91
107.20
106.38
109.29
105.33
106.09
106.29
103.99
104.18
104.57
103.36
103.44
101.11
100.94
Lap Four
110.25
111.36
111.49
109.98
108.83
105.57
107.98
107.26
108.01
106.09
102.84
106.08
104.92
104.72
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Bruce Almighty
TT
PRODUCTION TT
RUCE Anstey spoilt the party
for John McGuinness when he
powered home a blistering
record-breaking victory in Tuesday’s
delayed 1000cc Production race.
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‘I was a bit nervous at the start and took
it fairly steady on the first lap to see what
the others were doing. But when I cracked
the record next time round I felt completely relaxed about it,’ said the modest Kiwi,
after lapping in 18m 5.7s on his TAS Suzuki
to leave the class record at 125.10mph.
‘The bike was running really well and so
smoothly, it’s a joy to ride,’ added Anstey
after posting his third TT victory. ‘After the
first lap I set my sights on Ian [Lougher]
because I knew that if I passed him on the
road I would be winning. I got by him going
into Ramsey and pulled out some space on
the Mountain.
‘Fortunately the bike didn’t show any
signs of running out of fuel before I went
into the pits. It’s my third production race
and after finishing third in the first one I’ve
gone up a place each time.’
McGuinness, the first lap leader but 18
seconds down at the chequered flag, said
there were no excuses and that he had been
beaten by the better man on the day.
‘It was really close on the first couple of
laps but I lost some time just before the pit
stop when the engine started spluttering
because the fuel was running low,’ he said.
‘I had to use the electric starter at the
Governor’s Dip so that I could get back to
the pits.
‘I had a perfect pit stop but it seemed to
last forever. It was quick but obviously not
quick enough because Bruce gained 10
seconds over me.
‘I didn’t really know what was going on
when I went from minus four to minus 15,
so I just had to push on hard because I
thought someone was chasing me and didn’t want to surrender the second place.
‘The bike did a great job considering the
K4 model was being raced here for the first
Anstey in record-breaking form
to spoil McGuinness party
time. I really did ride as hard as possible, in
fact I had a couple of tank slappers. The
best was at the jump just before Rhencullen
on the second lap, I got a bit excited and it
calmed me down a bit.’
Jason Griffiths, who last made the podium after the end of the Junior two years
ago, got the better of fellow Welshman
Lougher by just over five seconds in a tussle for third place.
‘I have never won a
TT and things
looked good for
o n e t o d a y,’ h e
said. ‘But the
pace was hot and
when Anstey passed me going into Ramsey
hairpin on the second lap I realised there
that the chance this time had gone.
‘My Yamaha was low on petrol going into
the pit stop and it started spluttering as I
got to the stop box. Then I lost some time
when I got into a big slide at Sarah’s Cottage
on the final lap.’
Lougher managed to hold McGuinness at
bay on the roads with his Black Horse
Honda until the second lap at Milntown.
‘He then accelerated away from me out of
the Gooseneck but on the way down the
Mountain I caught up with him again,’ said
the Northern Ireland-based Welshman.
‘I was out of the pits after the refuel stop
ahead of him but he got back ahead of me
once more at Milntown.
‘I did seem to have more than my share
of back markers and had to ease up for
yellow flags at Ballaspur and Kirk
Michael. I also knocked it back going
over the Mountain on the second lap
because I knew the petrol situation
would be crucial. Maybe I knocked it
back a bit too much!’
Already rescheduled by a day
because of poor visibility, the start of
the Proddie three-lapper was
delayed by another 30 minutes
because of a serious accident at
Windy Corner just before roads
closed. Riders were warned off oil on
the road not only at Windy but also at
Braddan, which had also been the
scene of a traffic incident.
Adrian Archibald set the action in
motion for the 76 starters, but
although still leading the pack at Glen
Helen he was back in fifth place on his
Suzuki with McGuinness holding a
fragile one-second lead over dead heating Anstey and Lougher.
t was a similar situation for the leaders
at the Hairpin where Martin Finnegan
set the pulses racing when the back end
of his R1 stepped out and he headed, at
speed, towards the course commentary
box. The luckless Irishman hung on, only
to be penalised by 10 seconds at the pits
for failing to halt in the stop box and then
going out of the race a couple of minutes later at Braddan with a suspected steering damper problem.
McGuinness was still hanging on
by a second at the end of the first lap
as he flashed through the
Grandstand speed trap at 159.5 mph.
The race leader, Anstey, Lougher and
Griffiths all broke the lap record set
two years ago by the late David Jefferies!
Last year’s race winner, Shaun Harris,
quit at the pits with a broken steering
damper, the New Zealander having
stopped earlier at Ramsey Hairpin to carry
out a quick inspection of his obviously
strangely handling Blacksbikeshop Honda.
Another of the fancied runners,
Ulsterman Ryan Farquhar, ran out of petrol
on the second lap while in sixth place on
his Harker X10 Kawasaki.
After his record-breaking escapade on
the second lap, Anstey took control as
Archibald consolidated the fifth place he
had held from lap one and Richard Britton
kept the enthusiastic Mark Parrett at bay.
Gary Carswell from Maughold headed
the Manx challenge with eighth place on
his HM Sports Motorhomes GSXR.
‘I couldn’t be happier the bike was handling well and I just rode at a comfortable
pace, said the 35-year-old civil engineering
technician with the Island’s water authority.
‘The fuel light came on during the second
lap so I backed off a bit and there were a fair
few flies about, other than that there were
no worries at all,’ he said.
Despite the speed reduction Carswell
made up one place each lap. Next local
home and the first 750cc rider was Paul
Hunt from Braddan who was 11th on his
Cringle Suzuki. But it wasn’t so good for
Peter Hounsell from Douglas who went out
with a flat tyre at Sulby.
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Douglas fireman Paul Hunt won the 750cc class after finishing 11th overall
Japanese rider Jun Maeda enjoyed an excellent run on the Honda CBR to claim 19th place and a bronze replica
MW
JW
Bruce Anstey clocked up a new lap record of 1
There was joy for another local, however,
as Paul Hunt won the 750cc class award for
finishing 11th overall on the Cringle
Construction Suzuki at an average speed of
117.51.
The happiest non-finisher of the race was
Maria Costello, who — despite retiring on
lap two — set a standing start lap of
114.73mph on her Padgett Suzuki 1000 to
officially become the fastest female rider in
history over the Mountain Course. Her
time of 19m 43.8s (114.73mph) was 6.1s
quicker than the previous best set by
Sandra Barnett in the 1997 Junior TT.
Stuart Robson from Brough suffered
hand and leg injuries when he crashed his
Suzuki on the Mountain, and Croydon’s
Nick Turner was taken to Noble’s after
coming off his Yamaha at Kirk Michael.
Adrian Archibald had to settle for fifth
place on this occasion MW
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PRODDY
LAP TIMES
Third place continued a brilliantly consistent week for Jason Griffiths
125.10mph on his way to a superb victory in the Production 1000 TT
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125.10
124.38
124.16
123.34
122.67
121.32
120.77
120.36
120.44
119.85
119.79
118.45
118.63
117.40
117.94
121.23
119.86
120.04
119.80
118.85
118.09
118.26
116.45
116.49
115.54
114.92
114.63
114.67
118.69
116.06
Local man Gary
Carswell strikes a familiar
pose — leaning right over
as he rounds Quarter Bridge
on his way to an impressive
eighth place finish in the
Production 1000 TT.
‘I couldn’t be happier the
bike was handling well
and I just rode at a
comfortable pace,’ he said
afterwards. JW
JW
h:m.s
Bruce Anstey (Suzuki) ................54.53.5
John McGuinness (Yamaha) ........55.11.5
Jason Griffiths (Yamaha).............55.17.3
Ian Lougher (Honda)...................55.22.7
Adrian Archibald (Suzuki) ...........55.49.5
Richard Britton (Suzuki) .............56.24.5
Mark Parrett (Yamaha) ...............56.32.8
Gar y Carswell (Yamaha) .............56.57.8
Ian Armstrong (Yamaha) .............57.22.2
Nigel Davies (Suzuki) .................57.46.9
Paul Hunt (Suzuki) .....................57.47.5
Ian Hutchinson (Suzuki)..............57.47.9
Chris Heath (Honda)...................57.50.7
Roy Richardson (Suzuki).............57.57.7
Gordon Blackley (Honda) ............58.11.2
Mark Vernon (Suzuki) .................58.18.8
David Bell (Suzuki) .....................58.19.9
Davy Morgan (Suzuki) ................58.20.0
Jun Maeda (Honda) ....................58.24.1
Seamus Greene (Suzuki).............58.38.9
Mirko Kalsek (Suzuki) ................58.49.0
Alex Donaldson (Kawasaki) ........58.50.3
John Bar ton (Suzuki) ..................58.55.5
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125.03
124.91
124.86
124.39
123.53
123.21
122.57
122.40
121.73
120.87
120.29
120.27
119.53
119.16
119.07
mph
123.72
123.05
122.83
122.63
121.65
120.39
120.10
119.22
118.37
117.53
117.51
117.50
117.40
117.17
116.71
116.46
116.42
116.42
116.28
115.79
115.46
115.42
115.25
PRODDY RESULTS
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36
37
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40
41
42
James McBride (Suzuki) .............59.02.8
Andy Wallace (Suzuki) ................59.06.3
Jim Hodson (Suzuki) ...................59.15.2
Dirk Kaletsch (Honda) ................59.27.8
Alan Marshall (Suzuki) ...............59.48.5
Craig Atkinson (Suzuki) ..............1:00.01.0
David Castle (Suzuki) .................1:00.08.3
Alan Bud Jackson (Suzuki)..........1:00.23.4
John Burrows (Suzuki) ................1:00.28.8
Victor Gilmore (Honda) ...............1:00.35.9
Toni Rechberger (Suzuki)............1:00.49.0
Paul Duckett (Kawasaki) ............1:00.49.9
Andy Jackson (Suzuki)................1:00.51.6
Liam Quinn (Suzuki) ...................1:01.19.6
Jonathan Ralph (Suzuki) .............1:01.28.6
Tony Moss (Suzuki) ....................1:01.29.2
Mike Hose (Aprilia) ....................1:01.32.0
Stephen Oates (Yamaha) ............1:01.39.2
Ian Smith (Yamaha) ....................1:01.41.4
115.01
114.90
114.61
114.21
113.55
113.15
112.92
112.45
112.29
112.07
111.67
111.64
111.59
110.74
110.47
110.45
110.36
110.15
110.08
43 Umber to Rumiano (MV Agusta) ..1:01.41.9
44 Mike Crellin (Suzuki) ..................1:01.48.3
45 Alan Connor (Suzuki)..................1:01.55.5
46 Giorgio Cantalupo (Aprilia) .........1:01.58.8
47 Kevin Strowger (Suzuki) .............1:01.59.3
48 David Madsen-Mygdal (Suzuki) ...1:01.59.8
49 Andrew Jackson (Suzuki)............1:02.27.6
50 Mar tin Hamberg (Suzuki) ...........1:02.36.4
51 Julian Bull (Yamaha) ...................1:02.37.3
52 George Spence (Yamaha)............1:02.38.7
53 Wade Boyd (Kawasaki)...............1:02.40.5
54 Jeff Jones (Suzuki) .....................1:02.57.2
55 Roger Meads (Yamaha) ..............1:03.37.0
56 Marc Dufour (Yamaha)................1:03.52.9
57 Fabrice Miguet (Vokan) ..............1:04.41.1
58 Thierr y De Moly (Suzuki) ............1:04.58.1
59 Paddy Mar tin (Yamaha) ..............1:05.52.3
60 Geer t Lambrechts (Suzuki) .........1:06.24.3
61 Patrick Van Gils (Suzuki) ............1:06.33.9
62 Steve Linsdell (Yamaha) .............1:07.07.3
63 Scott Crews (Suzuki) .................1:07.42.7
64 Jerome Faveyrial (Honda) ...........1:09.56.0
65 Alex Torres-Mori (Yamaha) ..........1:10.54.8
66 Giovanni Iovine (Honda)..............1:14.13.4
Fastest lap Bruce Anstey 18m 05.7s, 125.10mph
110.07
109.88
109.67
109.57
109.55
109.54
108.73
108.47
108.45
108.41
108.35
107.87
106.75
106.31
104.99
104.53
103.10
102.27
102.02
101.18
100.29
97.11
95.77
91.49
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Lap One
J. McGuinness.....18.06.3
B. Anstey ............18.07.4
I. Lougher ...........18.07.8
J. Griffiths ...........18.11.9
A. Archibald ........18.19.5
R. Farquhar .........18.22.4
M. Finnegan ........18.28.1
R. Britton............18.29.7
M. Parrett...........18.35.8
G. Carswell .........18.43.7
G. Blackley .........18.49.1
C. Heath .............18.49.3
I. Hutchinson.......18.56.3
N. Davies ............18.59.8
P. Hunt ...............19.00.7
Lap Two
1 B. Anstey ............18.05.7
2 J. McGuinness.....18.12.0
3 J. Griffiths ...........18.13.9
4 I. Lougher ...........18.21.2
5 A. Archibald ........18.27.2
6 M. Finnegan ........18.39.5
7 R. Britton............18.44.6
8 M. Parrett...........18.48.5
9 G. Carswell .........18.47.7
10 G. Mar tin ............18.53.3
11 I. Armstrong........18.53.8
12 I. Hutchinson.......19.06.7
13 P. Hunt ...............19.04.9
14 C. Heath .............19.16.9
15 N. Davies ............19.11.6
Lap Three
1 B. Anstey ............18.40.4
2 J. McGuinness.....18.53.2
3 J. Griffiths ...........18.51.5
4 I. Lougher ...........18.53.7
5 A. Archibald ........19.02.8
6 R. Britton............19.10.2
7 M. Parrett...........19.08.5
8 G. Carswell .........19.26.4
9 I. Armstrong........19.26.0
10 N. Davies ............19.35.5
11 P. Hunt ...............19.41.9
12 I. Hutchinson.......19.44.9
13 C. Heath .............19.44.5
14 R. Richardson .....19.04.3
15 G. Blackley ........19.30.3
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Palmer’s tears of joy
Chris Palmer on his way to making history by winning the last ever 125 TT
TT
125 TT
WANTED that more than anything
else in the world’, declared an emotional Chris Palmer after making
history by winning the very last 125cc
Ultra-Lightweight TT in record-breaking style on Monday afternoon.
Born in Cumbria 41 years ago but
now living in Castletown and proud to
be an accepted Manxman, Palmer was
in tears as he arrived in the finisher’s
enclosure. ‘I certainly don’t mind
admitting that I was,’ he said. ‘What
else do you expect, I’m living in the Isle
of Man and I’ve made a little bit of TT
history.
‘People were cheering me on all
round the Course, they were willing a
local on to win, it was just fantastic it
couldn’t be better.
‘I made the right decision in not
entering the 1000cc Production race
that followed the 125 this year, because
I’m straight off to start celebrating in a
big way.’
The real threat to Palmer’s day of
glory was coming from Ian Lougher
until the Welshman’s Honda threw its
chain at Milntown Cottage on the final
lap, although he thought it was Dunlop
who was running second as he went
into the final lap.
‘As I went round the Gooseneck for
the final time I was shown a plus eight
second board but when I got to my next
signal point just before Windy Corner I
read it as down to 4.5 when in fact it was
45 seconds,’ he said.
‘I assumed it was Robert [Dunlop]
who was pushing me because he was
fastest in practice when in fact it was
Ian and of course the huge jump resulted from him going out near Ramsey.
‘Anyway I thought to myself I can’t
lose this race now and went berserk
coming down the Mountain. Because of
the real situation it would have been a
disaster if I had slipped off.
‘I knew that I dropped some six seconds behind Ian at one stage and in a
way it’s a pity he didn’t keep going. It
would have been a great 125 finale, as
long as I won it.’
Robert Dunlop, who inherited second
place, confirmed that he had ridden his
last race in the TT. ‘The result was all
right for me I suppose, because I knew
the other two lads would be going fast,’
he said.
‘Because of my arm injuries that have
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MIKE WADE
‘I wanted that more
than anything else
in the world’
been with me since I crashed at
Ballaugh Bridge back in 1994, I knew
that I would be struggling in places and
that’s where I lost out,’ he said. ‘I reckon I had the speed to take Lougher on
the Mountain.
‘The reason that I won’t race a bigger
bike over here is because I know that I
would be struggling in even more
places and wouldn’t be competitive.
‘The bike never missed a beat which
is a credit to my team but it really was a
little bit of luck that helped me today. I
saw Ian pushing his bike near School
House and knew I was pretty sure to get
second place.’
Nigel Beattie made the right decision
to ‘tune down’ his little Honda after it
broke down during the North West 200.
After a near race-long scrap with Garry
Bennett, the telephone engineer from
Laxey got the third place decision by a
50-second margin.
‘I caught him at Ramsey on the first
lap,’ said the 25-year-old former MGP
winner who made the TT podium at
just the second attempt.
‘We must have passed each other on
the road four or five times but I knew
that if I could keep him in sight I would
be OK.
‘I am really made up about that
although it was fortunate for me that
Lougher stopped.’
Palmer was first off the line when the
last ever 125 TT got under way two and
three-quarter hours late because of lingering mist in the Cronky-Voddy area.
With James Crumpton a non-starter
because he was medically unfit and
Kiwi Shaun Harris pulling out at the last
minute, it was fourth-starting Dunlop
who was first to head off after Palmer’s
yellow Nick Woodman Honda.
Ian Lougher was next into the fray
and it was soon clear that the first three
riders on the road were going to break
away from the rest of the field.
At Glen Helen, where a patient crowd
had even given the travelling marshals
a rousing cheer, the trio couldn’t be separated on time and were 10 seconds
clear of Mark Tyrrell and Matt Jackson.
Nigel Beattie’s prayers were
answered on Monday as he
grabbed a superb podium
position in the 125 TT
behind race winner Chris
Palmer and runner-up
Robert Dunlop
MIKE WADE
By Ramsey Hairpin, new commentator and former TT exponent Andy
McGladdery reported that a ‘smooth
and quick’ Palmer and Lougher, who
takes a wide line to miss a permanent
damp patch in the road, were one second up on Dunlop.
Nigel Beattie was up to fourth but 22
seconds in arrears and only three seconds up on Tyrrell who suffered a slight
misfire as he accelerated up towards
the Gooseneck.
Pa l m e r w a s f i r s t t h r o u g h t h e
Glencrutchery Road speed trap at 124.1
mph but it was Palmer in the lead by
four seconds with Dunlop third, five
seconds behind the leader.
Five seconds were still separating
them at Glen Helen with Beattie, still
fourth, 42 seconds in arrears.
Bennett was through to fifth, five seconds ahead of Tyrrell, and homing in on
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125 LAP
TIMES
Lap One
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
I. Lougher ..........20.46.1
C. Palmer ..........20.50.5
R. Dunlop ..........20.51.4
N. Beattie..........21.23.5
M. Tyrrell...........21.32.5
G. Bennett.........21.32.9
M. Jackson ........21.38.3
P. Har vey...........21.41.8
N. Moore ...........21.42.7
N. Kneen ...........21.44.5
J. Vincent ..........21.44.7
T. Roebuck ........22.08.0
T. Ritchie...........22.13.2
C. McGahan.......22.43.1
P. Wakefield ......22.51.3
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
I. Lougher ..........20.36.4
C. Palmer ..........20.38.9
R. Dunlop ..........20.43.3
N. Beattie..........21.09.6
G. Bennett.........21.09.0
M. Tyrrell...........21.23.4
N. Kneen ...........21.21.2
M. Jackson ........21.29.5
N. Moore ...........21.28.1
J. Vincent ..........21.40.4
T. Roebuck ........21.58.2
T. Ritchie...........22.08.5
C. McGahan.......22.20.9
P. Wakefield ......22.45.6
M. Chatter ton....22.58.9
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10
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12
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C. Palmer ..........21.09.3
I. Lougher ..........21.21.5
R. Dunlop ..........21.31.6
N. Beattie..........22.00.4
G. Bennett.........22.09.0
M. Jackson ........22.01.3
M. Tyrrell...........22.18.5
N. Moore ...........22.11.5
J. Vincent ..........22.46.9
T. Roebuck ........22.41.7
T. Ritchie...........23.00.5
C. McGahan.......23.27.8
P. Wakefield ......23.31.4
J. Rogers ...........24.49.0
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10
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12
13
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C. Palmer ..........20.28.9
R. Dunlop ..........20.59.2
N. Beattie..........21.22.9
G. Bennett.........21.14.2
M. Jackson ........21.11.5
M. Tyrrell...........21.32.8
J. Vincent ..........22.09.2
T. Roebuck ........21.52.7
T. Ritchie...........21.59.9
C. McGahan.......22.16.0
P. Wakefield ......22.37.6
J. Rogers ...........23.40.7
R. Lennon ..........23.26.5
109.00
108.61
108.54
105.82
105.08
105.05
104.62
104.33
104.26
104.12
104.10
102.28
101.88
99.64
99.05
Lap Two
The top three finishers in the last ever 125cc TT race. (L-r) runner-up Robert Dunlop, winner Chris Palmer and third-placed Nigel Beattie
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125 TT
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the fourth man.
On to the Mountain for the second time,
Lougher had increased his advantage by
another two seconds and Palmer was
pulling away from Dunlop and that was the
situation as they arrived at the pits to refuel. No visor changes suggested a lack of flying creatures around the Course and all
three were quickly back in the action.
It was the end of the race for local rider
Norman Kneen who was running in seventh place. His Honda refused to fire up
after the stop despite being pushed the
length of the pits.
Despite a slow exit from pits and with a
touch of ‘jumping up and down by the
rider’, Bennett was back in the chase after
Beattie, although he had lost valuable time.
Lap Three
JOHN WATTERSON
Dunlop bows out
with second spot
Between the pits and Glen Helen, Palmer
moved into a one-second lead and had
increased it to five before the end of the
third as mist started to drift down the road
towards the Grandstand.
His advantage was up a further three seconds at Glen Helen on the final lap and it
was obvious that Lougher was in trouble.
‘The fairing over the sprocket was starting to degenerate and slowing me down as
it moved about,’ said Lougher. ‘It was hit-
ting the chain and bouncing on the rear
wheel. As I went into Milntown the bike
started to lock up. I pulled in the clutch but
the chain had come off. It was bitterly disappointing because it was the last 125 race
and I was in with a chance of winning it.’
Palmer, not knowing of Lougher’s misfortune, hit the final Mountain climb with
a 45-second lead over Dunlop and set
about the pointless flat-out charge for victory. ‘It’s unbelievable, have I definitely
109.85
109.63
109.24
106.98
107.03
105.83
106.01
105.33
105.44
104.45
103.04
102.24
101.29
99.46
98.50
107.01
105.99
105.16
102.86
102.20
102.79
101.47
102.01
99.36
99.74
98.39
96.48
96.23
94.52
91.22
Lap Four
won?’ he enquired as he came to a halt in
the finishing enclosure.
Tyrrell claimed the last silver replica with
sixth place with bronze reps going to Jon
Vincent, Ted Roebuck, Trevor Ritchie and
Chris ‘wing nut’ McGahan who lost one of
the two extra-large ears he stuck on the
side of his helmet.
Veteran Mick Chatterton, who has been
contesting the TT since 1960, was the 12th
of 14 finishers from 22 starters.
110.52
107.86
105.87
106.59
106.82
105.06
102.18
103.47
102.90
101.66
100.05
98.21
95.60
96.57
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h:m.s
Chris Palmer (Honda) .............1:23.07.6
Robert Dunlop (Honda) ..........1:24.05.5
Nigel Beattie (Honda) ............1:25.56.4
Garry Bennett (Honda)...........1:26.05.1
Matt Jackson (Honda) ...........1:26.20.6
Mark Tyrrell (Honda) ..............1:26.47.2
Jon Vincent (Honda) ..............1:28.21.2
Ted Roebuck (Honda).............1:28.40.6
Trevor Ritchie (Honda) ...........1:29.22.1
Chris McGahan (Honda) ........1:30.47.8
Peter Wakefield (Honda) .......1:31.45.9
Mick Chatterton (Honda) .......1:33.09.2
Jimmy Rogers (Honda) ..........1:36.18.0
Reg Lennon (Honda)...............1:37.22.9
mph
108.93
107.68
105.36
105.18
104.87
104.33
102.48
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Robert Dunlop, pictured on his final
competitive lap of the Mountain Course on
Monday. He first raced the TT in 1984, one
year after making a winning debut in the
Manx Grand Prix. ‘I feel relieved to have
survived the Isle of Man,’ said the five-times
TT winner later. ‘I’ve lost a few good friends
here over the years’ MIKE WADE
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Travelling
Marshals
look the
business
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OY Shirlaw of Shirlaw’s Motorcycles
in Aberdeen is a long and loyal
supporter of the Isle of Man TT and
Manx Grand Prix.
For the second time in recent years, he
has supplied new leathers for the
Travelling Marshals team.
This year he supplied off-the-peg sets of
Aikito leathers for all of the ‘regular size’
TMs.
Brett Gaites’s pair is having an extra 10
inches tacked on to the legs!
The line-up of this year’s Aikito-kitted travelling marshals, with the exception of Brett Gaites. (L-r) Jim Hunter, Dean Harrison, Dick Cassidy, Tony Duncan, John McBride,
Ian McVeighty and Ned Bowers. Keith Trubshaw (far right) was unable to officiate due to a hand injury and was replaced by first reserve Dean Harrison JW
Dunlop waves goodbye
OBERT Dunlop waved goodbye
to the TT with a podium place
finish in Monday’s last ever 125.
Having concentrated almost exclusively on the tiddler class in recent
years since his big F1 crash at
Ballaugh in 1994, the five-times winner admitted he was quite relieved to
survive the Isle of Man.
‘I’ve lost a few friends here and I’ve
got through two big ones myself so I
reckon it’s time to call it a day,’ said the
43-year-old after the race.
Dunlop first rode the Mountain
Course in 1983 when he won the
350cc Newcomers Manx Grand Prix
from Steve Hislop and Ian Lougher.
His great friend Gene McDonnell
finished fourth in the same race (quite
a classy line-up of newcomers) and it
was the latter’s death in the 1986
Junior 250, after hitting a horse on the
approach to Ballaugh Bridge, which
had the most profound effect on
Dunlop of all the fatalities on the
course over the years.
Robert crashed heavily himself the
same year at the 13th Milestone on a
350cc F2 Yamaha, suffering a number
of fractures.
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I reckon it’s time to call it a day,
says five-times TT winner Robert
His biggest off came in 1994 when
the Mavic wheel on the Medd Honda
RC45 he was riding broke up and
caused him to crash exiting Ballaugh
village in the Formula One.
He has never properly got over that
crash and not ridden anything bigger
than a 250 since, when in fact he was
an excellent rider on RC30 Hondas
and of course the unwieldy but fast
Jo h n P l a y e r- s p o n s o re d Ro t a r y
Nortons.
‘I’ve only had two crashes on the
course, but they’ve both been big
ones. No wee ones,’ said Robert.
Steam Packet
race meeting
THERE is a strong entry for Saturday’s PostTT Steam Packet Road Race meeting on the
Billown Course.
Lap record holder Ryan Farquhar heads the
entry for the nine-lap 1000cc event along
with Jason Griffiths, Ian Lougher, Guy
Martin, Chris Palmer, Paul Hunt, Gary
Carswell and Mark Parrett.
There is a similar field for the 600, where
Peel’s Tommy Clucas must be another likely
favourite. This class is to run concurrently
with a handful of 250s.
Palmer and Lougher will doubtless resume
battle in the 125 class, while Griffiths and
Dave Madsen-Mygdal must start as joint
favourites in the 400.
Roads will close between 1 and 3.30pm
for practice then re-close between 4.30 and
8.15 for racing.
The three races are to be interspersed
with parade laps of classic machines ridden
by former world champions Jim Redman and
Phil Read to name but two.
The first race is due away at 4.50.
Online bookings
AN online bookings initiative from The
Steam Packet is available to 2004 TT fans,
enabling them to book for the 2005 TT
Festival.
The multi-language site address ref
hyperlink http://www.2005TT.com was
launched by the company to ensure that all
visitors to this year’s TT Festival will be
aware of the site and the facility.
Over 80,000 plastic beer glasses were
produced displaying the website address,
which were to be used on board all five
vessels operating over the TT period on over
300 sailings.
For one of the Finest selections of
Motorcycles & Scooters on the Island.
Also available is a large selection of
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Large selection of Tyres available
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crashing the yoghurt truck!
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Familiar TT faces missing
WO regular faces missing from the TT this
year are sidecar veteran Brian Rostron and
travelling marshal Keith Trubshaw.
Brian rode his final TT last year at the age of 69,
since when he has had two major hip operations.
‘The first one went badly wrong. It dislocated
twice and I decided to go to a specialist at
Wrightington Hospital near Wigan for a second
opinion.
‘I had another six-and-a-half-hour op four
weeks ago and I now feel as though I am finally
on the mend,’ he says.
Rostron first came to the TT as a spectator in
1951 and he’s hardly missed a year since. ‘I couldn’t come in 1952 and 53 as I was doing my
National Service, but I don’t think I’ve missed any
since.’
A major driving force in the local branch of the
TT Supporters’ Club since he retired to the
Island four years ago, Brian first raced the TT in
1977.
Between then and 2003 he notched up no fewer
than 31 finishes in 26 years, claiming two bronze
replicas and a best finish of 19th.
He has the fourth highest ever tally of finishes
T
CROCKS OF GOLD: Brian Rostron (left) and Keith Trubshaw
JW
How did you
fare in our TT
picture quiz?
1........1960 Ulster GP (Alan Shepherd)
2........Slazenger (Alan Trow)
3........Metralla (Bill Smith)
4........Formula One (Bob Anderson)
5........Winston McAdoo (Bob Jackson)
6........Bob McIntyre (Bob Brown)
7........Five (Carlo Ubbiali)
8........MV, Gilera, Norton (Dickie Dale)
9........Japan (Ernst Degner)
10......Hondis Ltd. (Derek Minter)
11......1963 (Geoff Duke and Phil Read)
12......Vittorio (Ernesto Brambilla)
13......Socks (Gary Hocking)
14......Franco Gonzalez
15......John Surtees (Mike Hailwood)
16......Velocette (John Hartle)
17......Tornamona (Joey Dunlop)
18......Gibraltar (“John Grace”)
19......Canadian (Mike Duff)
20......The only Japanese to win (Mitsuo Itoh)
21......Bianchi (Osvaldo Perfetti)
22......Liverpool (Ralph Rensen)
23......Elbows (Tarquinio Provini)
24......Union Mills (Kunimitsu Takahashi)
25......MV Agusta (Terry Shepherd)
26......Braddan (Tom Phillis)
27......Chas. Mortimer (Tommy Robb)
28......Helicopter rescue (Tony Godfrey)
29......The RAF (Chris Conn)
30......The URS (Helmut Fath)
in the sidecar class.
Stuart Applegate and Stuart Bond have been
riding his 600 Yamaha this year.
Keith Trubshaw raced his first TT in 1975 but is
better known as the nearly man of the Manx GP.
He finished runner-up no fewer than four times.
Trubby is a long-time Island resident and been
a regular member of the Travelling Marshals
team since 1986.
He should have been officiating this year but an
accident when working on his son’s car left him
with first-degree burns on his right hand four
months ago.
‘I’m hoping to go back to work at Manx
Telecom in an advisory capacity shortly, but I
won’t be able to do any manual work for a while
yet,’ said Keith, who finished fourth with Jack
Higham in the 500 class of the two-man
Production TT in 1976.
His place on the TM team has been taken by
MGP regular Dean Harrison.
■ Brian Rostron and Sweden’s Lars Schwartz
both received special awards from Tourism
Minister David Cretney this week to mark their
long careers in the TT.
Unlucky break for Miranda
SPANISH newcomer Antonio ‘Tony’
Miranda is disappointed to be out of the
racing after coming off his Yamaha 600 at
Creg-ny-Baa during the Friday evening
practice session.
The 36-year-old from Barcelona broke
toes and sprained a wrist in the incident.
Antonio was brought up living near the
Monjuich racing circuit and the noise of
motorbike racing became a familiar
backdrop to his childhood.
Ralph Crellin of Crosby
submitted the most correct
answers to Geoff Cannell’s
TT teasers posed in Issue
One of TT News. Ralph
scored an impressive 26 out
of 30 to win a copy of
Mac McDiarmid’s book
The Magic of the TT.
ONCHAN resident Neil Hodgson battled
through the pain barrier to earn his first
finish of the year in the MotoGP series in
the Cinzano Italian GP at Mugello on
Sunday.
Still nursing a couple of broken ribs in
his lower back, Hodgson qualified 19th
on the Team D’Antin Ducati and
salvaged 11th place in the race, which
was finally decided over a six-lap sprint
after rain caused the initial start to be
halted.
Fellow Brit Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne was
one place ahead in 10th on the MS
Aprilia. Byrne rode the TT Parade lap last
year on the MonsterMob Ducati. Jeremy
McWilliams finished one place out of
the points in 16th on the second Aprilia.
World championValentino Rossi
bided his time on theYamaha as the
track started to dry and made his move
at the right moment to secure a
memorable win in front of the Hondas
of Sete Gibernau and his great rival Max
Biaggi.
Rutter and
Emmett on
the podium
Hospital food is on the menu for Antonio Miranda after his spill at Creg-ny-Baa
AND THE
WINNER IS...
Hodgson
notches first
MotoGP
finish
He became interested in the TT in 1988
before starting to compete in events,
including the 24-hour Barcelona
endurance race.
Prior to entering this year’s event, Tony
obtained a licence from the French
Federation as the Spanish Racing
Federation withdrew support for potential
TT entrants following the death of
Santiago Herrero in 1970.
Success for Lawrance brothers
CHRIS and Richard Lawrance, the
Auckland brothers who crashed heavily at
the 32nd milestone in last year’s sidecar TT,
got back to racing with considerable success over the summer months ‘Down
Under’.
Riding their rebuilt DMR 600 Yamaha
Thundercat they certainly put the cat
among the pigeons against the larger
capacity F1-style machines in the New
Zealand championships, scoring a first
and a second in the two rounds they contested.
Then in the street races they scored more
top three finishes at Wanganui and Paeroa
to gain fourth overall in the street series,
which they would have won without a DNF
at Wanganui on Boxing Day.
They have received backing from Yamaha
NZ for next year as a result.
Chris, who lived in Ramsey for a couple
of years to save ‘travelling costs’ to the TT
and in fact won the Isle of Man Centre ACU
sidecar drivers’ championship in 2002, has
recently had an operation on the severed
Achilles tendon and other ligament damage he suffered in the crash 12 months ago
this week.
German officer
Ewald makes his
sixth TT visit
THE now familiar green uniforms of the German
police force are back.
Once again two officers — Ewald Temmen and
Gerd Schade — have travelled across Europe to
help Manx police colleagues during the busy TT.
It is Ewald’s sixth visit to the motorbike festival,
but Gerd is a TT virgin.
The pair, both from the city of Nordhorn, have
been sworn in as special constables and started
their duties on Thursday.
They’ll be on hand to assist German TT fans
who need the police – for anything from reporting a theft to being involved in an accident.
Ewald and Gerd will also assist Manx officers by
acting as translators.
MICHAEL Rutter and Sean Emmett took
a win apiece in round six of the Think!
British Superbike Championship at
Thruxton on Sunday.
MonsterMob Ducati rider Emmett was
in line for a double but he commenced
his celebrations too early.
As he punched the air and waved to
the crowd his bike swerved out of line.
Emmett, high out of his seat managed to
hold on, but dropped back to third place
behind the HM Plant Honda of Rutter
and the Rizla Suzuki of John Reynolds.
Race two saw a titanic five way battle
which eventually saw Emmett
victorious by 0.783 of a second over
Rutter and Suzuki reserve Gregorio
Lavilla.
Reynolds, who rode the TT in 1989
(finishing ninth in the 400), crashed in
race two and broke a collarbone.
Michael Rutter was on the Island this
week.
Lampkin
slips back
LOCAL resident Dougie Lampkin
slipped further behind his on-form
Repsol Montesa Honda team-mate
Takahisa Fujinami in theWorld Trials
Championship in Duluth, Minnesota at
the weekend.
In wet and muddy conditions on
Saturday, Lampkin failed to make the
podium for the first time in over a year
when he finished fourth after a
spectacular crash in which his bike’s fork
yolk broke.
Things were looking better on Sunday,
in much improved conditions, until
Lampkin made an elementary mistake
and went the wrong way in a section on
the first lap which had been altered
overnight. He eventually finished
second, two marks behind Fujinami on
17.
Billown races
THE annual post-TT Steam Packet road
race meeting takes place at Billown this
Saturday. Roads will close between 1
and 3.30pm for practice then reclose
between 4.30 and 8.15 for racing at 4.50.
The three races are to be interspersed
with parade laps of classic machines.
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Living the dream
Bonhuil
loves the
Island
atmosphere
RUNO Bonhuil returned to the
Island on Tuesday after taking a
break from his TT activities to oversee a track day at the race school he has
opened at Mas du Clos in central France.
The 44-year-old Frenchman, who raced a
new Honda RR in this afternoon’s Junior
under the Martin Bullock team banner,
first came to race in the TT in 1997 and
now as a regular reckons he is ‘living a
dream’.
‘I used to read and hear about the TT
exploits of Ago, Mike Hailwood and Phil
Read and now I am reliving what they did,’
he said. ‘I keep coming to the Island
because I enjoy everything about it so
much. I have raced in grands prix on
superbikes and in endurance events but
over here it’s another world.
‘There may not be so much team presentation or the flashy lifestyle of a GP paddock but everyone involved in the racing
puts in so much effort and enjoys every
minute. It is the root of road racing, it is
where it all really started and from where
the current world scene began to develop.’
A major change of direction in Bruno’s
career in racing came after he suffered serious injuries when he crashed at
Hockenheim while racing a Yamaha in the
1989 West German GP.
‘I had 14 fractures including one to my
skull and my heart stopped twice,’ he said.
B
Bruno Bonhuil pictured shortly before his only ride of the week — Wednesday’s
Junior TT in which he finished 19th overall to secure a bronze replica MIKE WADE
‘I was lucky to survive and I consider that
I am enjoying a second life.’
When he returned to racing after recovering from the accident, Bruno turned his
attention from grands prix to endurance
racing, winning the Le Mans 24-hour race
in 1991, the Bol d’Or two years later and
the Spa Eight Hour in 1999. Two years ago
he was crowned an Endurance world
champion.
He has also taken on the responsibility of
co-ordinator for the Chinese-sponsored
Zongshen World Superbike team and will
leave the Island tomorrow, Thursday, to
look after riders Warrick Newman and
Piergiorgio Bontempi during this weekend’s title round at Silverstone.
‘It really is a flying visit to the TT but it’s
worth all the effort for even one race,’ said
Bruno who is in his 26th year of racing.
‘I love being involved in the unique event
and can’t thank Martin enough for giving
me the opportunity to actually take part.
He knows I won’t win but I show my appreciation to him by putting in my best performance possible.’
T T
PI BI S
WORLD Superbike champion Neil
Hodgson was recently voted the Isle of
Man’s 2003 Sports Ambassador of the
Year.
He stepped up to receive his award
from TT co-ordinating committee
chairman David Cretney at the Isle of
Man Sports Council’s annual Sports
Awards evening.
It was the first major dinner function to
take place at the newly refurbished Villa
Marina in late April.
Also in attendance were Neil’s close
neighbour and friend, seven-times
outdoor World Trials champion Dougie
Lampkin, Manx trials ace Steve Colley
and another former Onchan man Martin
Rowe, the reigning World Rally
Production Car champion, who won the
Isle of Man Sports Personality of the Year
award.
■ BALLAUGH’S David Knight moved
into second place in the Maxxis World
Enduro Championship with a brace of
second places at Skovde in Sweden at the
weekend.
Knight finished some 25 seconds
behind Finland’s Samuli Aro in dry and
dusty conditions on Saturday and a
slightly reduced margin of 19s adrift of
the same factory KTM rider on Sunday.
It puts him 16 points adrift of Aro in
the overall Enduro 3 class championship
standings with three rounds remaining,
but ahead of Spain’s Ivan Cervantes for
the first time after the latter man could
manage only fifth and third.
■ BELGIAN champion Geert Lambrecht
has a brace of 1000cc F4 AGO MV Agusta
machines his TT debut.
■ THE presentations for the 600cc
Production and the Senior TTs will be
made at the back of the Grandstand at
the conclusion of the Classic Parade on
Friday afternoon.
Alan Cowley: Parade lap
JW
■ ALAN Cowley, the father of Manx
sidecar passenger Paul Cowley who died
during practice for this year’s TT, is to
take part in Friday afternoon’s Parade
Lap in the very same outfit.
Paul Cowley sustained fatal injuries
when he fell from the rear of the Yamaha
driven by local competitor Glyn Jones at
the Black Dub, near Glen Helen, last
Wednesday evening.
Paul’s father, who competed in the TT
himself as a passenger between 1974 and
1982, expressed a wish to ride the parade
lap with Glyn in the same outfit, and the
late request was accepted by the event
organisers.
Stunned into silence
Klaffi can’t
believe
pace of
sidecar TT
LAUS Klaffenbock was stunned
into near-silence after completing his first lap of the TT
Course in the opening practice session, writes John Brown.
‘It was much harder than I
thoughtitwasgoingtobe,’admittedthe2001sidecarworldchampion. ‘At one stage I was close to
stopping,Ijustcouldn’tbelieve
how fast everyone was going.
‘When practice finished I
looked at the times and saw
that Christian [Parzer] and I
were eight minutes slower
than the top team. I knew
there was work to do and
that I had got to start taking
things very seriously.
‘As I started to find my way
round, my confidence grew
and the lap times came down during every
practicesession.OfcourseChristian,whois
a crazy man, was never satisfied and all he
couldsaywas“getonwithitwearenotgoing
fast enough”.’
When the Austrian pair arrived in the Isle
of Man and stepped outside their large double-deck coach motorhome and transporter,itwasthefirsttimeeitherofthemhad
even trodden on Manx soil. ‘I really didn’t
know what to expect although we had been
told that it was going to be an eye-opener
and something completely different to anything we had experienced before,’ said
Klaus.
At one stage it was touch and go whether
the pair would actually be taking part in the
event this year. ‘We had an entry, but no
machine,’ explained Klaus. ‘Fortunately I
managedtolocateafive-year-oldMolyneux
chassis in Belgium with a 2002 Yamaha
engine in it.’
It was in fact the same outfit Ian Bell and
Neil Carpenter rode to victory in the first leg
of the 2003 TT.
The 600cc motor became surplus to
Klaus Klaffenbock and Christian
Parzer just missed out on a
bronze replica in Saturday’s
oepning sidecar race after
finishing in 19th place JM
K
‘
re q u i re m e n t s t w o
years ago when Klaffenbock switched to
Honda power for the Team Klaffi World
Supersportoperationthatisheadedbytitlechasing Sebastien Charpentier who will be
in action at Silverstone this weekend.
‘It is the first time I have ever raced a shortwheelbase outfit, so I have been learning to
ride that as well as getting to grips with the
Course,’ he said.
Klaus says that although it is a costly operation he will be back at the TT next year.
‘Once I had got over the shock of my first lap
I started to find racing here a very pleasant
experience. Next year I will have a completely new machine, and that of course is
very costly because the TT will be the only
time I race it.
‘Icertainlydidnotcomeherethistimewith
any ideas about winning, but that might not
be the case next time when I hope I will have
the Course knowledge that will allow me to
go as fast as I know I can.’
The Austrians lapped at an average speed
of more than 101mph in Saturday’s race, but
retired on the final lap of Wednesday’s at
GlenVine.
Beach boy
McCanney
mops up
Klaus Klaffenbock (right) and ‘crazy man’ passenger Christian Parzer
Sidecar crew aim to raise £20,000
FEELING PEACHY:
Sidecar driver Nigel Smith
and passenger Chris Lake
enjoy the attention of
Peach’s Peachettes MW
A COLLECTION in memory of French
rider Serge Le Moal has raised
hundreds of pounds.
The TT newcomer from Lamballe in
Brittany lost his life when he crashed
his 125 Honda at Braddan Bridge
during Practice Week.
A misadventure verdict was recorded
at an inquest in Douglas.
Le Moal was a well-known competitor
in French motorcycling and fans have
been making donations in his memory.
Subject to approval from Braddan
Commissioners, it is hoped to erect a
plaque at the part of the course where
he died.
The remainder of the money will be
donated to the Helicopter Fund.
RICHARD ‘Milky’ Quayle will be in-store
at HMV in the Strand Shopping Centre,
Douglas, on Thursday evening to sign
copies of the official TT film TT — A
Film Documentary, which was released
on Monday. Milky will be in-store
between 5.30-7pm.
I certainly did not come here this time
with any ideas about winning, but that
might not be the case next time
LOCAL sidecar driver Nigel
Smith’s efforts in this year’s
TT have helped raise funds
for Leukaemia Research.
Castletown resident Smith
had brolly dollies, the
Peach’s Peachettes, shading
him and passenger Chris
Lake from the sunshine at
the start of Saturday’s first
sidecar race in which they
finished 44th at an average
of more than 92mph on
their Ireson Kawasaki.
By the end of the TT, and
with the additional cash
hopefully made at a fundraiser at Ronaldsway Sports
and Social Club in the near
future, Smith hopes to make
over £20,000 for the charity.
Collection in
memory of
French rider
‘Milky’ to sign
copies of film
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K C M Y
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JW
THE Douglas Beach-cross last Thursday
was won by local motocross champion
Kieran McCanney from former British
Enduro champion Juan Knight.
McCanney won two races to Knight’s
one in the Peveril MCC-promoted event.
Matthew Lund, 19, won all three
main races in Ramsey MCC’s Mad
Sunday motocross at West Kimmeragh
sand quarry, Bride.
Monday evening’s proposed Peveril
MCC motocross near Creg-ny-Baa was
scrubbed when racing on the Mountain
Course was delayed due to mist in the
Cronk-y-Voddy area. Even after the
Production 1000cc race was further
postponed until Tuesday it was too late
to rearrange the motocross at such
short notice.
The final off-road events of the week
are a beach-cross at Peel on Thursday,
7.30, and a multi-lap enduro near St
John’s on Sunday.
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Moly just misses 20m lap
TT
SIDECAR 2
Identical
result in
Sidecars
AVE Molyneux weaved his Island
magic once again in Wednesday’s
second sidecar race to join Rob
Fisher on a record 10 sidecar TT wins with
a resounding victory after dominating the
proceedings from start to finish.
With passenger Daniel Sayle from Jurby
in the chair of his Honda-powered DMR
projectile for only their third race together, he clipped 4.3 seconds off the lap record
he set in 1999 to leave it at 113.17mph.
The pair went into the final lap with a 56second advantage over the all-Jurby pair of
Nick Crowe and passenger Darren Hope
and crossed the line 37 seconds ahead of
their fellow Manxmen after backing off the
power during the final 37.75 miles.
‘It’s the perfect ending to a perfect week,’
said Moly who was congratulated by Rob
Fisher as he went to the winners’ enclosure. ‘We haven’t had a spot of bother with
the machine either in the races or during
practice.
‘The dreadful noise that we thought was
a serious engine problem on Saturday
turned out to be coming from an excessively slack clutch primary gear, so no
problem there.
‘During today’s race we did lose traction
on a few corners but that is to be expected
at the speeds we were travelling. It really is
hard going on the tyres.’
Sayle said that the experience of racing
with Moly was fantastic. ‘I was third last
year with Greg Lambert and 12th the year
before with Glyn Jones but this week has
been something very special,’ he said.
Moly said that he had been reprimanded
by another rider during Monday’s prizegiving. ‘He said I was going too fast and
robbed him of a replica,’ he said .’That’s all
D
Dave Molyneux and Daniel Sayle take the applause of the crowd as they approach the winners enclosure after completing the second leg of a sidecar double
very well, but racing is racing. I appreciate
that the slower crews are having a good
race amongst themselves, so I hope that
getting caught up with slower drivers on
the last lap and, in fact, backing off a bit as
well gave those guys a better chance this
time.’
Crowe said that he was quite surprised
that he was engaged in a battle with Steve
Norbury during the opening stages of the
race.
‘The bike was going like a missile and
when we were only four seconds ahead of
Norbury at the end of the first lap I was surprised,’ he admitted. ‘I pressed on hard and
it was up to about 12s at the end of the second and although I slowed a bit on the last
lap we were just over 21 seconds ahead at
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the finish.’
Passenger Hope said that for him the race
was completely different to the one they
rode on Saturday when they also finished
in second place.
Norbury was well-pleased with his second third place of the week. ‘I kept pushing hard. My second lap was the fastest I
have ever done here. It is the first time I
have gone flat-out through the bottom of
Barregarrow, it was quite an experience.
‘We were a lot quicker through Sulby
than last time. The bike is much the same
as it was on Saturday, we just serviced and
rode it better.’
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Nick Crowe and Darren Hope recorded a single lap of
110mph on Saturday, this time they averaged over
110mph for the full distance. They have now finished
runners-up in four consecutive TT races JW
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Locals weave their magic in race two
From Page 18
Norbury did report having a moment at
the top of Rhencullen. ‘We did a really
good wheelie, I reckon I must just have
taken my eye off the line for a split second.
It wasn’t a major panic though.’
Brummie Roy Hanks and long-serving
passenger Dave Wells were fourth throughout, repeating their Saturday performance
on their DMR Yamaha. They were a fraction over 10 seconds down on Norbury at
the end of the three laps.
Greg Lambert and Ivan Murray dropped
down one place to sixth place behind Gary
Bryan and Steven Hedison while John
Holden and Jamie Winn improved dramatically on their Saturday 34th to bring
their Fanuc Honda home in seventh place.
Fo r m e r w o r l d c h a m p i o n s K l a u s
Klaffenbock and Christian Parzer, making
their TT debut, were going much stronger
than they were first time and were in a
creditable 14th spot when trouble with
their Yamaha outfit forced them out at
Glen Vine on the last lap.
‘I have really enjoyed the TT and certainly hope to be back. I was getting to
know my way round and seemed to be getting faster on every lap,’ said the Austrian
driver whose best to date was at
104.14mph on lap two.
Yorkshire lass Sally Wilson was the first
lady to finish while racing in her first TT as
passenger for 15th-finishing David Wallis
from Long Eaton.
‘I’ve only raced twice before today and I
reckon that you haven’t lived until you’ve
done a sidecar race in the Isle of Man,’
enthused the 30-year-old from Castleford.
‘It was a close call getting here because
David didn’t even have an engine a week
before we were due to set off to the Island.’
Mick Harvey and Fiona Baker-Milligan,
who were 16th on Saturday, made a hot
exit when their Shelbourne Suzuki caught
fire between the 11th Milestone and
Handley’s, while Steve Sinnott and Dave
Corlett made the right decision when they
popped in for a pint after stopping at Sulby
Crossroads near the Sulby Glen pub.
❏ Full results on back page
SIDECAR 2 LAP TIMES
Lap One
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
D. Molyneux/D. Sayle ..............20.15.1
N. Crowe/D. Hope ....................20.44.0
S. Norbury/S. Parnell...............20.48.2
R. Hanks/D. Wells.....................21.03.8
G. Lambert/I. Murray ...............21.06.0
G. Bryan/S. Hedison.................21.08.4
J. Holden/J. Winn.....................21.19.6
B. Dixon/M. Lambert ................21.25.5
A. Schofield/M. Cox .................21.29.2
N. Connole/D. Lowther ............21.42.9
B. Currie/P. Bridge....................21.45.7
K. Howles/D. Jewell.................21.53.5
H. Baker/N. Barlow..................21.56.9
T. Thirkell/R. King......................22.08.1
R. Stockton/P. Alton .................22.08.4
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
N. Crowe/D. Hope ....................20.27.9
R. Hanks/D. Wells.....................20.40.2
G. Bryan/S. Hedison.................21.00.4
J. Holden/J. Winn.....................21.17.0
111.78
109.18
108.81
107.47
107.28
107.08
106.14
105.66
105.35
104.25
104.02
103.40
103.14
102.27
102.24
Lap Two
113.17
110.61
109.98
109.52
107.68
107.76
106.36
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
B. Dixon/M. Lambert ................21.24.4
A. Schofield/M. Cox .................21.25.1
B. Currie/P. Bridge....................21.24.6
K. Howles/D. Jewell.................21.43.2
K. Klaffenbock/C. Parzer .........21.44.2
S. Neary/K. Morgan .................21.57.9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
N. Crowe/D. Hope ....................20.29.7
R. Hanks/D. Wells.....................20.48.7
G. Bryan/S. Hedison.................20.56.1
J. Holden/J. Winn.....................21.22.8
B. Dixon/M. Lambert ................21.21.9
A. Schofield/M. Cox .................21.21.7
B. Currie/P. Bridge....................21.31.0
K. Howles/D. Jewell.................22.01.8
S. Neary/K. Morgan .................21.45.8
D. Wallis/S. Wilson ..................21.55.7
105.75
105.69
105.73
105.24
104.22
104.26
104.14
103.06
Lap Three
108.75
110.45
107.87
108.77
108.13
107.48
105.88
105.95
105.97
105.21
102.86
104.92
102.76
104.01
103.23
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Sidecar 2 results
H:M.S
Dave Molyneux/Daniel Sayle (Honda) .....................1:01.04.2
Nick Crowe/Darren Hope (Honda) ..........................1:01.41.6
Steve Norbur y/Scott Parnell (Yamaha) ...................1:02.22.3
Roy Hanks/Dave Wells (Yamaha0 ...........................1:02.32.7
Gar y Br yan/Steven Hedison (Yamaha) ....................1:03.04.9
Greg Lamber t/Ivan Murray (Honda) ........................1:03.11.0
John Holden/Jamie Winn (Honda) ...........................1:03.59.4
8
Ben Dixon/Mark Lamber t (Honda) ..........................1:04.11.8
9
Allan Schofield/Mark Cox (Yamaha) .......................1:04.16.0
10
Bill Currie/Philip Bridge (Yamaha) ..........................1:04.41.3
11
Nigel Connole/Dennis Lowther (Honda)...................1:05.13.9
12
Roger Stockton/Peter Alton (Yamaha) ....................1:05.25.6
13
Kenny Howles/Doug Jewell (Yamaha) .....................1:05.38.5
14
Simon Near y/Kevin Morgan (Yamaha).....................1:05.54.2
15
David Wallis/Sally Wilson (Honda) ..........................1:06.11.2
16
Tony Thirkell/Roy King (Honda) ..............................1:06.37.8
17
Lars Schwar tz/Dicky Gale (Yamaha) .......................1:06.57.2
18
Tony Elmer/Darren Marshall (Yamaha) ....................1:07.05.1
19
Neil Kelly/Jason O’Connor (Honda) .........................1:07.08.9
20
Andrew Thompson/Steve Harpham (Honda) ............1:07.52.5
21
Peter Nuttall/Geoff Smale (Yamaha).......................1:07.53.5
22
Mick Thompson/Rachel Norbur y Lea ......................1:08.07.0
23
Andy Kinsella/Tim Dixon (Honda) ...........................1:08.50.6
24
Dick Tapken/Ricky Rober ts (Yamaha).....................1:09.02.3
25
Mark Halliday/Mark Holland (Kawasaki) .................1:09.25.7
26
Peter Farrelly/Aaron Galligan (Yamaha) ..................1:09.26.1
27
Dan Clark/Nigel Mayers (Honda) ............................1:09.31.1
28
Trevor Tullett/Lisel Marie Amos (Yamaha)...............1:09.55.7
29
Andy King/Colin Borland (Kawasaki) ......................1:10.01.8
30
Steven Coombes/Gar y Par tridge (Kawasaki) ..........1:10.17.5
31
Keith Walters/Andy Webb (Yamaha) .......................1:10.38.0
32
Michael Stewar t/Andrew Baxter (Yamaha) .............1:10.40.2
33
Claude Montagnier/Laurent Seyeux (Yamaha) .........1:10.46.8
34
Francois Leblond/Sylvie Leblond (Honda) ................1:10.47.9
35
Pascal Hachet/Rene Geffray (Yamaha) ...................1:10.49.1
36
JC Huet/Emmanuel Nicholas (Yamaha) ...................1:10.56.9
37
Brian Alflatt/Guy Lowe (Honda) ..............................1:11.05.1
38
Chris Hibberd/Gar y Masterman (Yamaha) ...............1:11.48.8
39
Dick Hawes/Eddy Kiff (Suzuki) ...............................1:12.25.0
40
Mark Autton/Wayne Appleby (Yamaha) ...................1:12.36.2
41
Craig Bloore/Christopher Bloore (Yamaha) ..............1:12.41.0
42
David Stone/Kerr y Williams (Yamaha) ....................1:12.42.3
43
Jean Hergott/Gerald Midrouet (Yamaha) .................1:14.06.3
44
Max Venus/Paul Sanderson (Honda) .......................1:14.43.2
45
Nigel Smith/Chris Lake (Kawasaki) ........................1:14.55.7
46
Alan Langton/Stuar t Graham (Honda).....................1:15.21.4
47
Errol Craven/Jason Miller (Honda) ..........................1:15.58.0
48
Ian Salter/Deborah Salter (Kawasaki).....................1:18.25.6
49
Ruth Laidlow/Helen Sutherland (Yamaha) ...............1:19.02.1
50
David Walker/Mike Killingswor th (Yamaha).............1:19.42.5
Fastest lap Dave Molyneux/Daniel Sayle 20m 00.2s, 113.17mph - record
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
MPH
111.20
110.08
108.88
108.58
107.66
107.48
106.13
105.79
105.67
104.98
104.11
103.80
103.46
103.05
102.60
101.92
101.43
101.23
101.14
100.05
100.03
99.70
98.65
98.37
97.81
97.80
97.69
97.11
96.97
96.61
96.15
96.10
95.95
95.92
95.89
95.72
95.53
94.57
93.78
93.54
93.43
93.41
91.64
90.89
90.63
90.12
89.39
86.59
85.92
85.20
SIDECAR NUMBER 1...
Dave Molyneux (left) and Daniel Sayle have certainly been Number 1 in this year’s Sidecar
races — claiming the honours on Saturday and Wednesday
MIKE WADE

Sulby Glen Hotel McGuinness completesTT treble

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