The sweet taste of victory mingled with the sweet smell of e85! Click picture for gallery.
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( 3 / 4039 )Following his Thunderbike UK ride at Cadwell Park, Michael Neeves from MCN wrote an excellent article on the Inzane project.
Click here for a pdf (2MB) of the August 2008 MCN article
The bike even made it onto the front of MCN!
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( 3 / 4282 )Qualifying in second at Cadwell was a good start and a wet sixth place actually disguised an excellent performance with Russ testing some new wet tyres and getting faster throughout the race.
Race two saw Russ get on the pace and a fifth place finish, with the commentator announcing the fastest lap to Russ; this unfortunately turned out to not count as yet again the race was stopped early. Even without this Russ was now second fastest, within 0.1s /lap of leader Glynn Davies.
Sure enough, race three saw Russ in second when the race was stopped after three laps. From second on the reformed grid Russ won the race on the road, pipping Peter Molloy across the line by the customary <0.1s. Celebrations of the first win for the bio-fuelled Ducati proved premature as BMCRC were running "WSB" (aggregate time) rather than "BSB" (first on the road) rules! Russ followed up this second place with another second in the final race after battling back from a poor start.
Michael Neeves from MCN deserves a special mention for putting in a really good ride in the Thunderbike UK race on the Inzane Ducati. Starting from last on the grid he rode up to fifth out of 25 starters!
MCN took some excellent pictures to add to our usual Racing Lines race shots: click the picture to view the gallery
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Russ was really starting to get sorted at Brands towards the end of the second race, but an early end to the race (red-flag) left him languishing in 9th, to add to his first race 6th place. Things were looking good on the Sunday until a cracked clutch cover (after effects of the crashes?) on the morning warm up left us wondering what might have been....
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A new two into one underseat exhaust was hand built and fitted to the Ducati for this round. If you are interested in one of these contact Two Wheel Technics under "Links". It its lighter and more crash worthy than the twin exhaust set up - as events were to confirm...
After qualifying on the second row for race one, Russ ran in fourth place until a rear master cylinder fault caused the rear brake to drag - check out the spectacular glowing disc in the gallery! This resulted in a DNF and consequently a back row (37th place) start for race two.
Russ carved his way up to 9th giving a third row start for the third race in which he set the fastest lap of the meeting and missed out on a win by less than 0.1s from Championship leader Peter Molloy. A rather mixed weekend ended with an unfortunate crash out of a comfotable third in the final wet race.
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