KARL( BOMBER) HARRIS ON THE R1 SUPERBIKE / BSB MALLORY PARK ROUND 5

All change at Mallory Park this weekend with Karl Harris giving the team's
R1 Superbike an outing in the two BSB races. The Bomber is reunited with the
bike he rode in 2008 for Rob Mac Racing. Practice and qualifying all went to
plan with no real problems. Karl then really got his head down and finished
the final superpole sessions in a brilliant 7th position, putting him on the
second row of the grid and sandwiched between the two factory Yamaha riders;
Andrew Pitt in 6th and Dan Linfoot in 8th position.
The bomber got a good start in race one and was running in 6th place when
unfortunately the race was red flagged and stopped due to a crash between
Martin Jessop and Dan Linfoot. The race was then restarted some minutes
later but Karl failed to make the start line due to a technical problem with
the R1's clutch, Arghhhh!
The second race grid positions were determined by race one's fastest lap
times. Alas, this meant a 15th place start on row 4. During the race Karl
held station in 15th position until on lap 17 when he had to retire the bike
with a further technical issue. A very disappointing end to an encouraging
couple of days practice and qualifying, but it does show that the East Coast
racing 2008 R1 Superbike is still a very competitive package.
Pat also had a fairly frustrating weekend. He arrived at Mallory with cuts
and bruises following a crash on a KTM Supermoto bike the week before.
Practice day on Friday and qualifying on Saturday all went by reasonably
smoothly and he ended up following final qualifying in 5th position start in
his championship.
Come the race on Sunday, in blisteringly hot conditions as it had been all
weekend, Pat had a fair start and then battled with Dan Kneen, the current
championship leader for most of the race. Eventually getting the better of
him on lap 20 out of the 25 lap race. When the chequered flag dropped, Pat
secured a 5th place finish and 18th overall.
Luke Mossey had a convincing win in the cup championship with Paul Jordan in
second place and Shaun Winfield who was the last of the podium finishes in
third. This now closes the championship right up with Dan Kneen still
leading by just one point from Pat in second, but the top seven in the
standings are separated by only 16 points. It's all getting very close!
Onward and up to the next round this coming weekend in Scotland at
Knockhill, our 6th round and halfway through the 12 round championship.

A VERY SUCCESSFUL 2010 ISLE OF MAN T.T. FOR AMERICAN RIDER JIMMY MOORE

Jimmy and East Coast Racing set off for the Isle of Man T.T. races back on Thursday 27th May in preparation for the first week of practice followed by a further week of races.
Practice week went well with decent weather in the main and all 3 bikes behaving themselves.

Jimmy put in as many laps as possible to reacquaint himself with the 37 miles and hundreds of corners around the the scenic island track. Jimmy managed a best practice lap of 123 miles per hour average on the teams Yamaha R1 Superbike. The first race on Saturday 5th June was 6 laps in the Pokerstars Superbike event, Jimmy finished in a very respectable 18th position out of the 72 starters with a best lap of 124 MPH. The next was the 4 lap Monster energy Supersport race held on Monday the 7th, again a full grid of 62 riders taking part.



Jimmy was going well in 12th place and came in for the necessary refuel stop after 2 laps but unfortunately the petrol tank filler cap was jammed shut and just would not open, a very frustrating end to a promising race result.But onwards and up and the afternoon was again another 4 lapper this time the Royal London 360 spocored Superstock race. Jimmy was armed with the teams Suzuki GSXR 1000 bike the race started with a healthy grid of 61 riders, all went well and Jimmy finished the 1 hour 14 minute race in 20th position another strong result.

Ian Hutchinson was in brilliant form and had won all of the opening 3 races for the Padgett's Honda team.

The second Supersport race was scheduled for the Wednesday but the heavens opened and was put back to Thursday for safety reasons. Jimmy was now really getting into the groove and looking forward to giving Pat's Yamaha R6 Supersport bike a good thrashing around the 37 mile Island loop along with a new "fuel cap" . All went nice and smoothly in the race for Jimmy and he bagged a brilliant 15th place finish with a best lap of 122 MPH, this result put Jimmy in an excellent 2nd position in the privateers cup standings after the 4 races with 1 Superbike race left to go on the following day.

The unthinkable was on everyone's lips with Hutchy winning again and equaling Philip McCallen 4 T.T. wins in one year, could he achieve the full house with 5 out of 5 ???. The final event the 6 lap Dainese Senior Superbike race would take the competitors just under 2 hours of seriously hard riding to complete.



The race got going in good weather conditions but unfortunately one of the front runners Guy Martin had a high speed accident on lap 3 and with his Honda Superbike in flames on the track it was rightly decided to red flag and stop the race. The god's were with Guy on this day after his 150 MPH crash and he was extremely lucky to sustain fairly minor injuries. When the dust had settled it was decided to rerun the race as a shortened 4 lap affair.

Jimmy had another trouble free race and finished in a great 11th position with an excellent best lap of 124 MPH. James McBride just piped Jimmy in the end for the Privateers Cup Championship but 2nd overall was a brilliant result for Jimmy and the team.

Well done Jimmy on a job well done. And yes you guessed it Ian Hutchinson won again and finished the week with a 100% record, 5 races and 5 wins, an astonishing achievement.