The Southern 100 has passed with some excellent racing once again, unfortunately I only made it down for the Monday evening practice session and the Thursday evening prize presentation’s at Castletown square. Having to work on the Thursday race day I was lucky enough to listen to the commentary on Manx Radio, sounded like a real good days racing and was releaved to see Michael Dunlop collect His trophy on crutches after His off at Iron Gate, lucky boy!
The Jurby South Road Races followed on the Saturday, and as they were running short on Marshalls I decided to sign on and help out for the day. Its always a great event and we usually have plenty of entries with the Southern 100 racers opting to stay on the Island for an extra couple of days and mix it with the locals. Roger Maher was absolutely flying on the big bike with the team MBR riders Callum Collister and Johny Heginbothom finishing the top three in the open class. The 600cc race was a close battle with the top 5 finishing within 2 seconds of each other, Callum Collister winning with Si Fulton 2nd Roger Maher 3rd Alan Jackson 4th and Johny Heginbothom 5th.
Unfortunately during the Clubmans race Ryan Myler’s machine punched a hole through the engine down the long start finish straight, spewing oil over a long section of the track, the organisers decided to abandon the meeting as it would of been way too dangerous to continue, a good day all the same.
The new race bike isn’t going to ready until about mid September, and Im really missing not being out on track, the good news is Dave Moffitt had some great results on His JHS Racing SV650 with a 2nd at the Southern 100, so its definitely going to be worth the wait!!
In the mean time Ive booked myself on the race school at the next ARA Meeting on the 1st of August, at least I will be able to get some track time in on the Yamaha R6, hopefully there will be plenty of togs there on the day.
