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MAG Sport For the Fast Ones
A few snippets of race successes and hairy moments full reports are at www.magsport.com
James Clamp
Cadwell Park 21 August 2004
On the last lap whilst lying in 15th, whilst in a four bike dice, the rider in front of me high-sided coming out of Chris Curves.
I braked to avoid him and the seat unit came off his tumbling machine hitting my bike and wedging itself between my fairing and my body. At this point I could not see a thing and I
quickly swiped the seat unit away.
Unfortunately in doing so I knocked the kill switch. It took me a few seconds to realise what had happened and to restart the bike. While all this
was going on I was riding through the debris of the crashed bike and I was lucky not to crash myself. I eventually finished
18th.
Brands Hatch 11 & 12 September
A wayward
rider pushed me wide causing me to lose a place then I was out braked at Graham Hill bend by two riders. I managed to hold on to 15th until lap seven when approaching Graham Hill bend I found
I had no brakes. I frantically pumped them and managed to make the corner, but only just.
This had dropped me to 16th place which is where I finished.
Saturday night my dad and
I stripped and cleaned the brakes and also changed the pads but found nothing else wrong.
Duncan Baillie
Ulster Grand Prix and Dundrod 150 August 2004
By the second last lap I was in a really good scrap which I won, getting into third. I didn't know this
until one of the officials asked me to come up to the podium!
I got a medal, a bottle of Champagne, prize money and I got to ride round the paddock in the winners parade.
Alex Gault
13yr old Alex Gault may be leading the Junior Racing Associations 125Gp Championship but two other championship meetings he attended in August have been fraught
with problems, first off a trip to the Aintree circuit just outside Liverpool, tested his mechanics to
the limit, who found it difficult to find the proper set up for the bike on this
demanding circuit.
However after initial problems, Alex managed to move up the field and finished the last race of the day as second 125 GP bike home and his efforts were enough for
the Scottish Schoolboy to pick up the top junior award.
Later in the month he competed in the Wirral Hundred meeting at "Track-Mon" on the Island of Anglesey.
Changing
weather conditions & the wrong tyre choice proved to be a problem and seen Alex crash out of the second race, damage to the bike ruled out any further racing at the meeting and the team
called it a day.
(Special Thanks)
As the team become more familiar with the officials and Marshals at these meetings, we are starting to be able to put faces and names to the
otherwise nondescript orange overalls that dot every circuit in the country and are starting to realise that they are even more MAD
FOR IT than us.
Travelling for miles and giving
up their time for very little reward and in the process making the meeting possible. A heart felt thanks to each and every one of you, I am sure you all know every rider appreciates the
effort you all make.
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