Happy New Year everyone from the AIR Kawasaki Team! Just giving you guys a roundup of last year’s final races.
Terlicko – Aug 2010
Due to the fact that we did not compete at the Ulster GP, the team travelled to the Czech Rep to compete in the Terlicko Road Races. We arrived there, and the weather was fantastic (in the 80s/90s). The practise got underway on Saturday morning at 7am. At the end of the day, Indi was heading the leading board in both 600 and 1000cc classes. There were two other riders there from Northern Ireland – Victor Gilmore who qualified 4th on the T. Lindsay Suzuki and 6th on his 600 Yamaha. The other was Adrian McFarland who was competing on a 600 Yamaha which he had borrowed from Indi, he qualified 7th.
On Sunday the first race for Indi was the 600, where he was on pole position. He stalled on the start line, the rider behind him looped it which in turn caused a 7 bike pile up on the grid. After the restart, Indi was down in 8th place after the end of the first lap, but by the start of the last lap he had gone into the lead, breaking the lap recording. He went on to win by 3.5 seconds.
Later that day he went out on the 1000cc where he took pole on the big Kawasaki. He had some stiff opposition in the form of a number of Germans riding BMWs and Gilmore who was on the front row on his T.Lindsay Suzuki. Indi lead from start to finish and destroyed the lap record on 4 occasions, winning the race by almost 14 seconds. Gilmore held 3rd place until the last lap where he was passed by one of the BMW, and had to settle for 4th place.
Killiane – Sept 2010
We arrived at the Killiane Road Races, just north of Dublin, in good spirits, fresh from our double victory at Terilcko. On Saturday morning we had the usual crack in the paddock and practise got underway. Indi slid off in practise on the big bike but he was a-okay. On Sunday, racing got underway in good weather and it looked as if we were in for a good day racing. But unfortunately on the first lap of the 600 race, our friend Victor Gilmore crashed around the back of the circuit and ended up losing his life. Needless to say, racing was abandoned. We stayed in Ireland and attended Victor’s funeral. After that, we caught the ferry across to the Scarborough Gold Cup meeting.
Scarborough Gold Cup write up to follow shortly…
