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Weather Frustrates AGAIN !! (28 Jul 12)

Armoy 'Race of Legends' was next on the agenda and after a busy ten days changing the engine in the CSC R6 Yamaha, rebuilding the DM#71RRSC 250cc Honda after it had seized, giving the Strangford Hioliday Park GSXR1000 Suzuki a good check over and changing the oil in the CMS ER6 Kawasaki, Davy was ready to go come friday practice.


pic : Jackie Henry

Practice started well as he claimed 12th on the CSC R6 and 10th on the Strangford Holiday Park Suzuki, but then the problems started, after cruising round for four laps to run in the new engine parts on the DM#71RRSC Honda he went for it on lap five but coming out of the final road ends she seized again and was in an unfamiliar 9th place on the grid. Things seemed to pick up in the Supertwin practice as Davy was 6th heading into the last few minutes of the session, but then bang and the engine let go putting a rod out through the front, putting Davy out of saturdays race.

Race Day and once again it was rain that greeted the paddock and at times it was torrential so Davy chose not to ride in what he felt was dangerous conditions, however the rain did stop later in the day and he did get out on the 250cc Honda and nursed it to the chequered flag in 4th having been down in seventh early on in the race.

Speaking later Davy said; "This weather is doing my head in and today was horrendous and i do believe at times with the torrential showers it was dangerous and everyone was lucky to get away with it. The way the weather is going i will have to get my 'wet weather mojo back' as soon as possible. The mechanical problems over the weekend didn't help, but at least the R6 was going a bit better with the new engine; the old engine was putting out less power than a standard bike so it was definiltely ready for a rest. It was not nice phoning Tony (Morris) about the 650 as it totally wrecked itself, but he was okay and will be over before the Ulster with a replacemnet engine, it was a real pity as the bike was going well. Its now on to Dundrod, were hopefully the weather and gremlins will be kinder to us."

 
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