Well, until Josh Brooks decided to be 2 seconds a lap faster than Shakey, it was nail biting stuff. John Hopkins was smoking but as we expeced, tyres were going to decide it. Cold and damp made tyre choice challenging. Great podium for Hoppo and congratulations to Josh. Outstanding performance for the R1M in its debut season. It might be done and dusted for the championship but I am looking forward to both races tomorrow. Off to the bar now to see what juicy gossip is divulged due to alcohol. Andy
Good race and well done Josh Brookes. What happened in the Ducati race before the bsb race, sounded serious.
I have been told that the rider concerned will stay in hospital overnight although nothing is broken and he suffered no lasting harm. Really good news. Andy
We were on the bottom of paddock bend in the dip not sure who he was but he went over the bars and the bike ran over him ,heard today he is alright
In the bar now feeling somewhat flat after an enjoyable day of racing and learning John Hopkins is off to Tommy Hill's new factory Yamaha team. Some well deserved success for the team and now without a rider . The weather was a lot better today although the track retained damp patches for most of the morning. One of the Motostart riders dumped his bike at Paddock having just left the pits for a 10 minute morning warm up. Graham Hill bend was the undoing for most today almost running out of bales to lean bikes up against. Nasty accident coming out of Clearways on the last lap of the first superbike race of the day. The red flag potentially robbed Hopkins of a chance to get Laverty back but I guess 4th is still a good result in this company. Not sure what happened in the final race but Shakey wasn't happy at the result, had a real cob on on the slow down lap. Lots of change to happen, new Yamaha team, new ZX10 for 2016, new Ducati team and potentially no defending champion, shock horror. Enough from me as my beer is calling - drink me .... drink me. Andy
Good last race in the end, and the usual mellee in supersport So 2016. Motorapido new rider....or go work for PBM? Or Smrz back to finish the job...