McGuinness Wins Again At Isle Of Man

McGuinness Wins Again At Isle Of Man

© 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. From a press release issued By Honda Racing.

From a press release issued by Honda Racing:

McGuinness wins Junior TT – Molyneux and Sayle take Sidecar TT honours

John McGuinness took his third victory from four starts as the Isle of Man TT Festival continued with the 600cc Junior race, decided over four laps of the 37.73 mile Mountain Course in lap and race record breaking speeds.

The Lancastrian employing again his strategy of setting a relentless, hard-charging first lap to good effect, as he shattered a full second off the year old record with a determined ride aboard his Yamaha which gave him a time of 18m 29.6s, an average speed of 122.41mph. But, he had better to come, trimming four seconds off that time, and increasing his average speed to 122.87mph.

“I had decided to get out there and go as hard as I could. Ride like a startled hare and try to get the job done in the first two laps,” McGuinness explained, though he admitted he had been shaken by an incident on the first lap. He was charging into Union Mills just seconds after Honda’s Ian Lougher had crashed.

“I saw the aftermath of what must have been a fairly big crash, on a fast part of the course, and that really shook me up, it was scary and frightening, but then I saw Ian getting up onto his feet to walk away, so I got my head down and concentrated.”

Leading on the road, McGuinness pitted for fuel with a lead of 21 seconds over Bruce Anstey (Suzuki), and the only rider to beat him so far this week, and as he charged away and into the third lap, McGuinness’ advantage had swelled to 34 seconds over Jason Griffiths, as Anstey had a lengthy, and arguably costly, in the final analysis, pit-stop.

Anstey rode brilliantly to cut the deficit, but he had too much to do, with McGuinness romping clear, and having the luxury on the final descent of the mountain to be able to ease off when his petrol warning light flashed on. “We had filled the tank to the brim, but it was worrying and it seemed to be glowing like a 3000 watt bulb every time I looked at it, but the bike did not miss a beat.”

He took the victory in the race, which had been delayed by 90 minutes while Emergency crews dealt with a Road Traffic Accident at Handleys, was at record pace pace of 120.57mph, and saw him finish 17 seconds ahead of Anstey, with Griffiths (Yamaha), third and a further 22 seconds back.

Richard Britton took fourth place for Honda – it had seemed that the Ulsterman was set for better things, as he ran second to McGuinness well into the second lap, but then was hampered by a downshift problem, which cost him vital time. Fifth place went to Mark Parrett (Yamaha), ahead of Martin Finnegan (Yamaha), with serving RAF technician Gordon Blackley taking seventh on his Honda. “It was a good race – the bike was problem free, faultless and was really enjoyable,” smiled Blackley.

Raymond Porter (Suzuki),was eighth, ahead of Paul Hunt (Suzuki), and Chris Heath (Yamaha).

It had been a tough race, with machine problems leading to the retirements of several leading competitors, including Ryan Farquhar, Shaun Harris and AdrianArchibald.

Manxman Dave Molyneux, passengered by Daniel Sayle, shattered his own Sidecar TT lap record as he romped to a winning double in this year’s event, to equal the ten race victories record of Rob Fisher.

Molyneux, with his Honda powered outfit took charge from the off, putting in a first lap at 111.78mph and then increasing the pace on the second to reduce the record time to 20m 00.2s, an average speed of 113.17mph.

That put him some 55 seconds clear of the rest, led by another Honda powered crew, Nick Crowe-Darran Hope, but, with some concerns about his rear tyre, Molyneux eased off on the final lap, to take the victory over them by a little over 37 seconds.

“It was a good run, enjoyable, but I was losing grip on some corners, and the outfit as sliding in places – we had cooked the tyre, so I took it a bit easy on the last lap,” said Molyneux.

Steve Norbury-Scott Parnell, Yamaha, were third ahead of the similar powered outfits of Roy Hanks-Dave Wells and Gary Bryan-Steven Hedison, with sixth place taken by Honda’s Greg lambert and Ivan Murray.

Junior TT Results Wednesday Race (257Laps)
PSN / NO-DRIVER / CC / MACHINE / HOME TOWN / TIME / SPEED

1 / 3-JOHN McGUINNESS / 600 / Yamaha R6 / MORECAMBE / 1 15 06.01 / 20.57

2 / 5-BRUCE ANSTEY / 600 / TAS Suzuki GSXR K4 / NEW ZEALAND / 1 15 23.01 / 20.12

3 / 4-JASON GRIFFITHS / 600 / Yamaha R6 / RAMSEY IOM / 1 15 45.61 / 19.52

4 / 8-RICHARD BRITTON / 600 / DMR RACING HONDA CBR / ENNISKILLEN NI / 1 16 10.81 / 18.86

5 / 10-MARK PARRETT / 600 / VIXEN YAMAHA R6 / MIDHURST / 1 16 27.31 / 18.43

6 / 12-MARTIN FINNEGAN / 600 / ROUNDTOWER YAMAHA R6 / LUSK EIRE / 1 16 53.91 / 17.75

7 / 16-GORDON BLACKLEY / 600 / Honda CBR RR / RAF BRIZE NORTO / 1 16 58.11 / 17.64

8 / 30-RAYMOND PORTER / 600 / SUZUKI / LIFFORD EIRE / 1 17 02.01 / 17.54

9 / 15-PAUL HUNT / 600 / CRINGLE Suzuki / BRADDAN IOM / 1 17 08.91 / 17.37

10 / 9-CHRIS HEATH / 600 / MANN RACING YAMAHA R6 / BALDRINE IOM / 1 17 24.21 / 16.98

11 / 17-NIGEL BEATTIE / 600 / ROAD & TRACK YAMAHA / LAXEY IOM / 1 17 58.11 / 16.13

12 / 19-IAN HUTCHINSON / 600 / Suzuki GSXR / BINGLEY / 1 17 59.11 / 16.11

13 / 13-PHILIP STEWART / 600 / HONDA / ROTHIENORMAN / 1 18 04.31 / 15.98

14 / 29-DAVID BELL / 600 / M&S HONDA CBR / CHESTER LE ST / 1 18 41.61 / 15.06

15 / 14-GARY CARSWELL / 600 / HM Suzuki GSXR / MAUGHOLD IOM / 1 19 09.01 / 14.40

TOTAL LAP COUNT 257; TOTAL MILEAGE 9696.61; FASTEST LAP TIME 18 25.4;
FASTEST LAP SPEED 122.87; FASTEST RIDER JOHN McGUINNESS; LAP NUMBER 2

Sidecar B Results Wednesday Race (
PSN / NO-DRIVER / SIDECAR / CC / MACHINE / HOME TOWN / TIME / SPEED

1 / 1-DAVE MOLYNEUX / DANIEL SAYLE / 600 / DMR Honda / REGABY IOM / 1 01 04.2 / 111.20

2 / 3-NICK CROWE / DARRAN HOPE / 600 / DMR Honda / JURBY IOM / 1 01 41.6 / 110.08

3 / 5-STEVE NORBURY / SCOTT PARNELL / 600 / Shelbourne Yamaha / CASTLEFORD / 1 02 22.3 / 108.88

4 / 4-ROY HANKS / DAVE WELLS / 599 / DMR YAMAHA / ERDINGTON / 1 02 32.7 / 108.58

5 / 6-GARY BRYAN / STEVEN HEDISON / 600 / BAKER YAMAHA / NORTH KELSEY / 1 03 04.9 / 107.66

6 / 15-GREGORY LAMBERT / IVAN MURRAY / 600 / DMR GL HONDA / RICHMOND / 1 03 11.0 / 107.48

7 / 14-JOHN HOLDEN / JAMIE WINN / 600 / Fanuc Honda / CLITHEROE / 1 03 59.4 / 106.13

8 / 7-BEN DIXON / MARK LAMBERT / 600 / Molyneux Honda / NORWICH / 1 04 11.8 / 105.79

9 / 11-ALLAN SCHOFIELD / MARK COX / 600 / M.R.Equipe / BROMBOROUGH / 1 04 16.0 / 105.67

10 / 20-BILL CURRIE / PHILIP BRIDGE / 600 / Windle Yamaha / GT SUTTON / 1 04 41.3 / 104.98

11 / 16-NIGEL CONNOLE / DENNIS LOWTHER / 600 / SHELBOURNE HONDA / SCUNTHORPE / 1 05 13.9 / 104.11

12 / 25-ROGER STOCKTON / PETER ALTON / 600 / Shelbourne YAMAHA / CREWE / 1 05 25.6 / 103.80

13 / 18-KENNY HOWLES / DOUG JEWELL / 600 / A.R.C. Ireson Yamaha / KIDDERMINSTER / 1 05 38.5 / 103.46

14 / 22-SIMON NEARY / KEVIN MORGAN / 600 / Windle Yamaha / LEEDS / 1 05 54.2 / 103.05

15 / 28-DAVID WALLIS / SALLY WILSON / 600 / SHELBOURNE HONDA / LONG EATON / 1 06 11.2 / 102.60

TOTAL LAP COUNT 169; TOTAL MILEAGE 6376.37; FASTEST LAP TIME 20 00.2;
FASTEST LAP SPEED 113.17; FASTEST RIDER DAVE MOLYNEUX/DANIEL SAYLE;
LAP NUMBER 2

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