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Anglesey - 19/20 April

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Pembrey - 21/22 June

Snetterton - 2/3 August

Cadwell Park - 30 August

Mallory - 14 September

Silverstone - 11 October
 
21-22 June - Pembrey (6-hour)

We arrived at the circuit on Friday for free practice but needed to work on the R1 as we had a few issues to sort out. The R6R was'nt going to arrive until evening.
Work finished on the R1 and Tony managed to get one leg into his leathers when the test finished half an hour early!

Saturday FP2 and Qualifying

Both of our Yamaha bikes needed gearing setup which is what we got on with in FP2. We ran out of time to get the suspension finely tuned so had to go into qualifying with work to do. The R6R had front brake problems and we changed everything but still they were causing us concern. We qualified eighth but were in trouble. Worse was to come.

The R1 suddenly had severe problems and was brought in where we decided to turn it off (qualified 5th). We still don't know the exact problem. The decision on safety grounds was to put another engine in. Hugh Brasher and Tony Jimenez were dispatched to M4 junction. 35 to collect a low mileage road engine. Two hours later they were back at the circuit and the real work began. A special thank you to Phill and James Haynes, Nick Roake and Steve Mulholland for putting the engine in one and a half hours. And to Emma and Tracey for the light entertainment. We fired the engine up and went to bed.

Sunday

Lovely weather but very windy. The R1 refused to start and was finally diagnosed as having a faulty fuel pump. Hugh was again dispatched but in the meantime another pump was sourced. John-Paul Scott and Nick Roake tested the bike and pronounced it healthy.

All was not so good with the R6R and we gambled on different EBC pads. We knew if the bike was ok after 3 laps we would be OK, problem was it was race time and no more time to test.

The Race

Another fantastic start by both teams had the R1 in 3rd and the R6R in 5th, the Leo Vinci pipes sounding like a Harrier jump jet! We had a small problem as Hugh had got back before the start of the race but nobody had told us they were going to start it 15 mins. early!

Hugh was stuck on the outside of the track. It looked like the R1 would only have 2 riders.

We had managed to cure the braking problem on the R6R but then misfortune reared it's ugly head not once but twice. Both bikes had crashed within 3 laps of each other. To be honest I'm not sure which one went down first but it was all hands on deck. The R6R got out first with Tony on board putting new P&P rear sets on losing twelve laps. The R1 took considerably longer due to all over damage. In that time Hugh had managed to get across the track and take the helm. We had lost half an hour. Both bikes were now out of the overall deal but were still looking to score points.

Tony came in half an hour later, reporting he found the bike unrideable because he couldn't change gear as the lever wasn't adjusted for his little paw!! Also without a screen he was having a torrid time hanging on also with his paws (Tony's nickname is Foxy).

Mike Eglington took took the reins and did a fantastic job and didn't notice any problems, a true endurance racer....no sense! The team decided to put a new Ermax screen on when we did the rider change for Jim Agombar. What a difference it made. We had one more "off" in the last hour but it made no difference to our position we were so far ahead of the next team. Jim got together with Hugh on track and boys will be boys and just as we were about to put a board out to tell them "stop it" the almost inevitable happened, no pocket money for a month.

We finally concluded the race 8th and 4th in class - R6R and 9th, 2nd in class - R1. The result doesn't reflect the effort but at least we finished and scored valuable points.

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