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John McGuinness completes TT Festival hat-trick with Senior TT victory John McGuinness shattered both lap and race records as he scorched to his third victory of the week in the Isle of Man TT Festival, finishing ahead of Cameron Donald, Bruce Anstey and Ian Lougher as Honda riders packed three of the top four finishing positions in the prestigious Senior race. The 32 year old Morecambe rider used the tried and tested tactics of powering as fast as possible into the opening to break the challenge of his rivals, and he has a superbly prepared HM Plant Honda CBR1000RR for the race. The machine had been specially prepared for the rigours of racing this difficult 37.73mile public roads Mountain Course and McGuinness used its qualities to the full, taking his career eleventh success and also the 130th TT success for Honda. McGuinness was ahead, but by only half a second, as they charged through Glen Helen for the first time, but mile by mile, he was extending his advantage, and also upping the record speed, taking that opening lap in 17m 39.95secs, an average speed of 128.146mph, faster than the record he set in his winning TT Superbike ride the previous Saturday. But there was better to come with McGuinness revelling in the near perfect, sun-drenched conditions as he shook off the challenges of Guy Martin and then Cameron Donald. As he pitted for fuel and a change of rear wheel, he had powered further into the unknown, with a lap on 17m 29.26mph, an average speed of 129.451mph. That put him 12 seconds ahead of the determined Donald, aboard the Robinson Concrete backed Honda CBR1000RR. The Aussie, riding in only his second year on the Island, and with broken heels, the result of a crash in last month’s North West 200, clocked a second lap of 128.445mph. He was trying everything he knew, but McGuinness had not only speed on the road, he also had the slicker pit-crew, and twice they played a major role in maintaining his supremacy. At that second refuelling halt, McGuinness was running 25 seconds ahead, and he was able to ride within himself over the final two laps, checking his signalling boards to take the victory that puts him level third with Philip McCallen and the late, great Steve Hislop in the list of all time TT winners. “I don’t think that I have ever ridden better round here than that. It was an unbelievable victory, awesome. I decided to push from the very start, the bike did not miss a beat, but they pushed me all of the way. It was a tough race. “The second lap felt good and fast. I had a blistering ride over the mountain, and was able to focus in on Guy Martin as a marker, and then I went ahead of him on the road. It was a terrific lap. “I am not too fussed about speed, rather, I wanted the win, but this time is was a case of going as fast as you could to achieve that,” reflected McGuinness as he took the race, in record time, by 20 seconds from Donald, who commented: “I’m still stunned with that. It is only 18 months ago that they invited me to come over here as a newcomer. I just cannot believe how this race has gone, or my lap times.” Anstey, despite a scary moment or two on the opening lap at Ballacraine when he clipped a bank and some bushes, took third place for the TAS Suzuki team, finishing some eleven seconds ahead of Ian Lougher, riding a Honda CBR1000RR in the Stobart Motorsport colours. Guy Martin, riding Yamaha, took fifth place, ahead of the Kawasaki of Carl Rennie and local rider Davy Morgan riding another Honda CBR1000RR. Raymond Porter, Nigel Beattie and Gary Carswell completed the top ten finishers Results Isle of Man TT Senior Race six laps, 37.73 mile Mountain Course 1. J. McGuinness (GB), Honda, 1:47:38.84, average speed 126.178 mph 2. C. Donald (Australia), Honda, 1:47:59.45 3. B. Anstey (New Zealand), Suzuki, 1:48: 08.79 4. I. Lougher (GB), Honda, 1:48:19.11 5. G. Martin (GB), Yamaha, 1:49:40.71 6. C. Rennie (GB), Kawasaki, 1:50:57.62 7. D. Morgan (GB), Honda, 1:51:39.48 8. R. Porter (GB), Yamaha, 1:51:50.90 9. N. Beattie (GB), Yamaha, 1:52:07.60 10. G. Carswell (GB), Suzuki, 1:52:13.76 20. Jeremy Toye (USA), Suzuki 25. Mark Miller (USA), Suzuki 40. Tom Montano (USA), Honda

Kawasaki factory rider Tommy Hayden is battered, bruised, nursing a swollen left hand but otherwise uninjured in spite of crashing into a wall fronted by tires during AMA team testing at the newly-repaved Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Wednesday, June 7. “I’m alright,” Hayden told Roadracingworld.com by telephone from his Kentucky home Friday. “I’m beat up a little bit, nothing major, but I definitely took a major hit.” Hayden said the crash started in turn nine, a left-hander that exits over a crest/wheelie hill and leads to a double right-hander. “Somehow I got both wheels off the ground when I changed directions,” said Hayden. “When I landed, I guess the front wheel was cocked because it ripped the bars out of my hands. It was slapping the handlebars hard enough that it broke the frame. I couldn’t get a hold of the bars and ran straight off the track. I was headed straight for the wall, so I jumped off. I still went into the tires hard.” Hayden said he was brought back to the track’s medical center but took the time to change into street clothes before he was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. “I hit my head, so I was a little dizzy,” said Hayden. “My left hand, nothing’s broke, but it swelled up real bad, stretched some of the ligaments in there. I’ve got two screws in there from an old injury and it still bothers me.” Hayden said he couldn’t ride today but when asked about his ability to ride in next week’s races at Miller Motorsports Park, “A lot can happen in a week. We’ll just have to see.” In regards to what he thought of the repaving of Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Hayden said, “That was a big let down, you could say. I guess we got spoiled with Miller. The track’s (Mid-Ohio) new surface is inconsistent with sealer down in the turns and some slick spots. It’s not a huge deal, just disappointing because it’s new. And the curbs are definitely dangerous. “I also found it strange that no one representing the AMA was there. I mean, it’s right in their backyard (AMA’s headquarters is in Pickerington, Ohio, about two hours away by car), new surface, the track wanted to talk to us and it was just us (riders and teams) and the track.”

Some of WERA’s top racers said they liked Miller Motorsports Park (MMP) after lapping the new course for the first time Thursday during a track-hosted practice day preceding this weekend’s WERA National event. Vesrah Suzuki teammates Mark Junge, Tray Batey, Lee Acree and John Jacobi turned several laps on their GSX-Rs and SVs Thursday and, generally, had good feedback on the $80 million racing facility. “It’s a fun layout,” said Jacobi. “Once I learned where I was going I liked it. There’s not much out there for reference, but overall I liked it. And the facilities, there’s nothing (on the WERA National schedule) that really compares to it, maybe Barber, but garage-wise, there’s nothing.” “I like the layout,” said Tray Batey. “It doesn’t compare at all (to any other WERA track). It’s a whole new standard. This is all new and exciting for me. I don’t like the dust (from continuing construction at the facility) blowing across the track. It makes traction different lap-to-lap, but they’re working on that and hopefully it will be a non-issue.” “I think it’s nice,” said Junge. “It’s like a mix of Carolina (Motorsports Park) and Barber (Motorsports Park). The corners in the first section (West Track) open at the exit, like Carolina, and the final corners (East Track) roll a little bit more and have more camber, like Barber.” Junge crashed his GSX-R600 Superstock racebike in “Clubhouse Corner,” turn 13, during the day, a crash caused by fluid on the surface, Junge suspected. Junge was relatively uninjured and reported that he found plenty of room in the impact area of the corner. “The facilities are nice, but we’re paying dearly for it,” said Acree, a regular on the WERA and the AMA Nationals series. “We’re paying $500 for this garage for the weekend. The surface is smooth, but there’s a surprising amount of patches.” MMP designer and General Manager/CEO Alan Wilson said the “patches” Acree referred to were a sort of concrete “band-aid” meant to protect sensitive seams in the wear layer of the surface that have been scuffed. The “band-aid” will wear away over time, after the asphalt finishes curing. According to Wilson, it takes a full year for asphalt to completely cure. On Friday, MMP will host a Fastrack Riders Association-organized track day and timed qualifying for Saturday’s WERA National Challenge Series feature races.

DiSALVO PREPARES FOR SUZUKA 8-HOURS RACE WITH YAMAHA JAPAN TEST Cypress, Calif., June 8, 2006 “” Current AMA Formula Xtreme points leader Jason DiSalvo is scheduled to test an endurance racing prepared Yamaha YZF-R1 in Japan at the end of June. The two-part test is intended to give DiSalvo an opportunity to familiarize himself with the bike he’ll be racing as a member of a three-rider Yamaha team during the Suzuka 8-Hours race on July 30. The first test rides will take place at a test track in Japan during the week of June 18th. DiSalvo will test again on June 26th at the famed Suzuka circuit. Commenting on the importance of the test, Yamaha racing manager Keith McCarty said, “This is an extremely important milestone for Jason. It will provide a great opportunity for Jason and the Factory to get to know each other and perhaps look towards the future.” The test is another step towards DiSalvo’s stated goal of premier class road racing in Europe one day. An optimistic DiSalvo said, “Nearly everything I’ve done in racing has been to get me ready for an opportunity like this. Obviously, my focus is winning a championship in the U.S. and doing the best I can every time I race””but I’d be lying if I said that the opportunity to race Suzuka doesn’t get me excited.”

Riders continued to take the initiative on safety concerns and met with an official at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course yesterday during a team test at the Lexington, Ohio road course. Mat Mladin, Jake Zemke, Eric Bostrom and Jamie Hacking joined Yoshimura Suzuki team manager Don Sakakura and Parts Unlimited Ducati team manager Tom Bodenbach in a meeting with Mid-Ohio’s Dennis Rhee, followed by a corner-by-corner tour and review of the racetrack. Riders are concerned with several issues. The repaved racetrack proved to be between one and two seconds a lap faster in the dry during the two-day test, depending upon the class of machine. But riders said the new pavement was very slippery when wet or even just damp with dew, with some riders waiting hours for the sun to completely dry the track before resuming testing after initial forays onto the pavement. “The new surface is grippy when it’s dry and with rubber on it,” American Honda’s Jake Zemke told Roadracingworld.com Thursday evening, “but not so much after it rains or when it’s green. It rained yesterday, so we started with a green track today and it was slippery!” Zemke added that the new surface was abrasive but not extremely abrasive as when he first visited Miller Motorsports Park or Barber Motorsports Park. Because the track is now faster, concerns about run-off room have been magnified in several corners. Riders also reported that the infamous patches in several Mid-Ohio corners have been sealed over, smoothing the transition. “There are patches, and I don’t really understand that,” said Zemke. “There’s some sealer patches where it looks like they’ve sealed up the corner at the exit of the Keyhole and in turn 11, the double-right that leads to Thunder Valley. There’s some smaller patches and sections of sealer in other areas, too. The sealer’s not a problem in the dry, but it definitely doesn’t have the grip of the regular asphalt.” New curbing is much more vertical (almost like a city street curb, according to one source at the test) than conventional racetrack curbing, with riders worrying about hitting their handlebars (!) on the new curbs. “The curbs are horrible,” said Zemke. “They are so gnarly you don’t even want to get close to them. They come up abruptly at a very sharp angle and are flat across the top. They are high enough that you could catch a front brake lever on them. “We had a safety meeting yesterday afternoon. The people with the track actually called the meeting because they wanted to know what we liked, what we didn’t like, what we want changed. It would’ve been more helpful if they had asked to meet with us before they did these curbs, but they were very receptive to our feedback. Hopefully, we can get the curbs fixed before the race here.” No AMA Pro Racing officials were present during the test.

2007 Loudon Classic Starts a New Tradition (LOUDON, N.H. June 8, 2006) — In 2007, the Loudon Classic at New Hampshire International Speedway (NHIS) will begin a new tradition of opening Laconia Motorcycle Week. The 2007 Classic will start on Friday, June 8, 2007 and end on Sunday, June 10, 2007. In making this announcement, Gary Bahre, NHIS president said, “We’re responding to a number of requests to have ‘The Classic’ at the start of the Laconia Motorcycle Week rather than at the end. The new schedule will give more people the opportunity to enjoy America’s oldest motorcycle race.” This year’s Loudon Classic will be held from Friday, June 16, 2006 to Sunday, June 18, 2006. Tickets will be available at the gate each day during the event.

Folch Endurance Clinches Spanish Endurance Title for Ninth Time Folch Endurance Yamaha, composed of American Kenny Noyes and the Spanish Salom brothers, Antonio and David, clinched the Spanish national endurance title for the third year in a row and for the ninth time overall with a comfortable win in the Six Hours of Cartagena. The team led all the way and won by seven laps. For Noyes it was a return to action after missing the opening round of the Spanish FX series with a broken bone in his left hand, the result of a crash during a tire test a month ago in Albacete. “It still hurts a bit, especially because we were racing without a slipper clutch and I had to use the clutch a lot on the braking, but it won’t be a problem next week in Formula Extreme,” said Noyes. The Folch Team competes next weekend in round two of the Spanish Roadracing Championship with Noyes and Antonio Salom riding Yamaha R1s in Formula Extreme. Six Hours of Cartagena 1. Noyes-Salom-Salom (Folch Endurance Yamaha) 208 laps 2. Perez-Gil-Lopotegui (Kawasaki Autoferro) 201 laps 3. Blancafort-Blancafort-Berti (Ausio Yamaha) 200 laps Final points: Folch Endurance: 70 (2 wins, 1 second) Kawasaki Autoferro 61 (1 win, one second, one third)