| Back to Southern
Ireland for the season finale at Killalane
and Davy was hopeful of carrying on the
good form he has shown during the second
half of the season.
Conditions were good for practice and
first up were the Supersport Machines
and Davy went out and put himself in eighth
place on the grid. This was followed by
the Open Session and it was disappointment
this time as the Honda developed a misfire
and Davy for safety reasons retired at
the end of the first lap and so would
start on Sunday at the back of the grid.
It was delight in the final practice
session for Davy was the 250cc and Davy
set a time at over 103mph on lap three
that put him on pole position for Sunday’s
race.
Race Day and all the races other than
the Grand Final were reduced to five laps
as bad weather was forecast later in the
day. First up was the Open Championship
Race and after burning the midnight oil
the misfire seemed to be resolved on the
Investasure Fireblade, but is was a back
row start. It was just a case of some
miles and when the flag dropped Davy worked
hard and worked his way through to eighteenth
over the five lap sprint. It was another
good performance on the CSC Branson R6
Yamaha as he battled for fourth throughout
with McFarland, Walsh, M.Dunlop and Kirwan,
but had to settle for eighth at the finish.
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The Grand Final was brought
forward in the programme, but it made
no difference for Morgan Racing as the
Honda went sick again and it was retirement
at the end of the opening lap. The 250cc
Race was to end up with a podium finish,
from the start Davy led the field away,
but Michael & William Dunlop were
right on his tail. William then made his
move putting in a blistering lap that
the other two could not match and gave
him enough of a gap to take the win by
just over a second with Davy second after
holding off a last lap challenge from
Michael.
In the final race of the day, the Supersport
Non-Championship there was a mistake at
the start that cost Davy time and places,
but he recovered well to drag himself
back to seventh at the chequered flag
to bring an eventful day to an end.
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| Speaking later Davy said,
“One of those mixed weekends,
excellent on the 250, solid on the 600 and
more problems with superbike. William got
something extra out of his 250 on Sunday,
I rode hard and held on but he was too good
on the day. I had too good runs on the 600
and enjoyed my battles with Adrian (McFarland)
and Damien (Mulleady). We decided to ride
the Investasure Fireblade due to the handling
issues with the CSC Branson Fireblade which
were bad at Dundrod and would have been
a nightmare here, but the misfire returned
and that was that. So that’s the Irish
season over and we will head to Scarborough
now for the Gold Cup and the last race of
2008.” |