I thought I'd take some phone snaps. GI
Wednesday night's Superbike race, lap 1. Ryan Farquhar leads, Michael Dunlop second, Guy Martin third at this point, Cameron Donald fourth, I think. Guy won this one. Mass start road races rule. Especially on a beautiful evening like this.The organising club's HQ. Part tea hut, part toilet block, part office. All you need, right there. Look at the colour of that sky.
Kawasaki ER-6s make awesome race bikes. There's the Werner and Johnny Lewis bikes in the GNC and this is Ryan Farquhar's dominant mini-twin 650.
I'd never been to this race meeting, so for Wednesday evening's race I walked up to a point that looked good. It was amazing.
The first race came through and the riders were close enough to touch. All the guys stood on the bank held their breaths then all blurted 'Feck' when the 20-odd bikes had streamed past. If they'd been sat with their legs over the bank thy'd have got their shoes ripped off.
Like rats, you're never more than 20 yards from a Sideburn fan. This is Harley from Douglas in his beloved Eddie shirt.Wednesday night's Superbike race, lap 1. Ryan Farquhar leads, Michael Dunlop second, Guy Martin third at this point, Cameron Donald fourth, I think. Guy won this one. Mass start road races rule. Especially on a beautiful evening like this.The organising club's HQ. Part tea hut, part toilet block, part office. All you need, right there. Look at the colour of that sky.
Kawasaki ER-6s make awesome race bikes. There's the Werner and Johnny Lewis bikes in the GNC and this is Ryan Farquhar's dominant mini-twin 650.
Thursday afternoon. Is there a better way to spend it?
This is looking back to Joeys' gate. That's Ryan Farquhar coming through.
The fella in the blue T-shirt is Paul Phillips, (one of) the brains behind the TT. He's a massive road racing fan and the saviour of the TT (in my mind, he'd never say that). This is him doing some research from the hedges.
UPDATE. See that weed in the gutter. William Dunlop ran over that trying to overtake someone on his 250. Close!
9 comments:
brilliant. the essence of real road racing.
what about roy moore standing in a garden at 4 ways get him back to ramsey hair pin NOW!
gary inman, you are one lucky bastard!
I spy a birthday trip for next year.
Looks great GI.
Awesome! Always wanted to go to the Southern.
Thanks for getting my good side Gary!
the mass starts are very hairy, they are very brave lads!!.
SIDECARS!!!FECK-FECK-FECK
Nice!
Thanks for sharing that.
Cheers!
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