Maria Costello’s most dedicated fan?


Photo: Bill Dale

By Maria Costello
November 8 2004

One of Maria Costello’s fan club, Mick Arling, is showing how dedicated a fan he is. As he is going under the tattooist’s knife to have an image of Maria on her race bike - the Suzuki GSX-R750 she broke the fastest female lap record on at the TT - added to his body.

The tattoo of Maria will be in great company too, as Mick already has one of the Isle of Man TT legend Joey Dunlop.

The tattoo will take three to four hours to complete, but should hopefully have healed in time to be on show at the Manx Grand Prix, where Mick and his other half Tracy will be attending to support Maria.

Maria and Mick - photo © John Watterson, Isle of Man Newspapers
Maria Costello and Mick Arling
photo © John Watterson, Isle of Man Newspapers

Maria has also been invited to accompany Mick to a tattoo artist, on the hallowed Isle, to endorse the image with her signature.



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