© Stephen Davison
Strong week for Guy Martin at the Southern 100
© Stephen Davison
By Phil Wain
July 17 2005
Kirmington’s Guy Martin enjoyed an excellent week’s racing on the Isle of Man last week, taking no less than three second places at the Southern 100 road races aboard the Uel Duncan/Robinson Concrete 1000cc Suzuki.
© Stephen Davison
July 17 2005
Kirmington’s Guy Martin enjoyed an excellent week’s racing on the Isle of Man last week, taking no less than three second places at the Southern 100 road races aboard the Uel Duncan/Robinson Concrete 1000cc Suzuki.
The meeting, held on the 4.25-mile Billown circuit at Castletown, was celebrating it’s 50th anniversary and Guy made it four podiums out of four starts with a third place in the 600cc race.
The week got off to a record-breaking start in the Senior Solo Founders and, after exchanging places in the early stages, Guy was forced to settle for second behind the flying Welshman Ian Lougher. This set the trend for the remainder of the week, with the same result also coming in the Senior race and the feature Solo Championship race, the duo both lapping in excess of 111mph. Guy’s fourth outing of the week came in Thursday’s opening 600cc race, and he took a close fought third aboard the 600cc Tullyally/Craig Honda behind Lougher and Ryan Farquhar.
At the end of the four-day festival, held in glorious conditions, Guy commented: “I’m a bit disappointed not to have taken at least one win this week but, overall, I have to be pleased with three seconds and a third. I battled with Ian Lougher in each of the Superbike races but, at about half race distance, he just pulled away. I stuck with him as long as I could and hoped he’d make a mistake, but he never did as he’s such an awesome rider and he was on the same, perfect line each and every lap.”
“His bike was like a missile in a straight line, so I’ve got a fair bit of work to do on the big bike before the Ulster. The 600 still wasn’t running right after the problems at Scarborough, and it wasn’t picking up properly coming out of the corners, but once we get it on the dyno, we should be able to sort it out. It was a really laid back meeting and I thoroughly enjoyed it – it’s definitely my favourite meeting of the year. Thanks to everyone that helped and supported me through the week, especially the Murphys who allowed me to stay with them.”
Guy’s next outing will be this weekend when he takes part in the Kells road races, held in Southern Ireland.
The week got off to a record-breaking start in the Senior Solo Founders and, after exchanging places in the early stages, Guy was forced to settle for second behind the flying Welshman Ian Lougher. This set the trend for the remainder of the week, with the same result also coming in the Senior race and the feature Solo Championship race, the duo both lapping in excess of 111mph. Guy’s fourth outing of the week came in Thursday’s opening 600cc race, and he took a close fought third aboard the 600cc Tullyally/Craig Honda behind Lougher and Ryan Farquhar.
At the end of the four-day festival, held in glorious conditions, Guy commented: “I’m a bit disappointed not to have taken at least one win this week but, overall, I have to be pleased with three seconds and a third. I battled with Ian Lougher in each of the Superbike races but, at about half race distance, he just pulled away. I stuck with him as long as I could and hoped he’d make a mistake, but he never did as he’s such an awesome rider and he was on the same, perfect line each and every lap.”
“His bike was like a missile in a straight line, so I’ve got a fair bit of work to do on the big bike before the Ulster. The 600 still wasn’t running right after the problems at Scarborough, and it wasn’t picking up properly coming out of the corners, but once we get it on the dyno, we should be able to sort it out. It was a really laid back meeting and I thoroughly enjoyed it – it’s definitely my favourite meeting of the year. Thanks to everyone that helped and supported me through the week, especially the Murphys who allowed me to stay with them.”
Guy’s next outing will be this weekend when he takes part in the Kells road races, held in Southern Ireland.
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