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.