feejer222
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Briefly, some great racing, looking like a close championship with the lead changing several times in both races. The first and second places shared alternately by Shane Byrne and Cal Crutchlow. The second race was stopped when Tom Sykes ran into Leon Haslam and caused himself to crash (Haslam stayed on). At well over 100mph half way down a straight, his bike sumersaulted and spinning at chest height, wiped Carl Harris off his bike. It looked horrific but after 5 minutes Harris was back on his feet. He didn't make the re-start.
EDIT: Carl has a broken nose.
The new 1200cc Ducati's look pretty much unstopable. Mike Rutter (Isle of Man TT and Macau fame) has found a new lease of life after 3 years in the doldrums. I personally thought he was finished, but today looked strong and finished 3rd in both races. He was tearful on the podium.
The new series is the R1 cup. (I think you guys call them FZ1's). Yamaha 1000cc one make championship. You pay your £25,000 and they provide the bike for a year and cover all maintenance, tyres and crash damage. (The bike to buy new on the road here would be about £8000). You don't get to keep the bike. It succeeds the R6 cup that ran for the last 5 seasons. Just the same but on Yamaha 600's. A boring race with a predictable end as a couple of top flight but rideless riders have entered. It is a series designed to showcase promising youngsters but because of a poor entry the top lads were allowed in to make up the numbers.
Howie Mainwaring riding in the superstocks (1000cc production bikes with race suspension) qualified 8th and finished 9th in the race after climbing through a few places then losing them again. The 2 leaders were in another post code finishing 4 seconds ahead of the guy in 3rd.and some questions were raised about electronics on the bike of the guy who won. More to follow on that one.
Not spoken to Howie yet, but he was at his favourite circuit and finished 9.5 seconds behind the first 2 so there is work to do.
EDIT: Carl has a broken nose.
The new 1200cc Ducati's look pretty much unstopable. Mike Rutter (Isle of Man TT and Macau fame) has found a new lease of life after 3 years in the doldrums. I personally thought he was finished, but today looked strong and finished 3rd in both races. He was tearful on the podium.
The new series is the R1 cup. (I think you guys call them FZ1's). Yamaha 1000cc one make championship. You pay your £25,000 and they provide the bike for a year and cover all maintenance, tyres and crash damage. (The bike to buy new on the road here would be about £8000). You don't get to keep the bike. It succeeds the R6 cup that ran for the last 5 seasons. Just the same but on Yamaha 600's. A boring race with a predictable end as a couple of top flight but rideless riders have entered. It is a series designed to showcase promising youngsters but because of a poor entry the top lads were allowed in to make up the numbers.
Howie Mainwaring riding in the superstocks (1000cc production bikes with race suspension) qualified 8th and finished 9th in the race after climbing through a few places then losing them again. The 2 leaders were in another post code finishing 4 seconds ahead of the guy in 3rd.and some questions were raised about electronics on the bike of the guy who won. More to follow on that one.
Not spoken to Howie yet, but he was at his favourite circuit and finished 9.5 seconds behind the first 2 so there is work to do.
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