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THURSDAY EVENING
29th May 2008
PERFECT PRACTICE
CONDITIONS SEE LEADING CONTENDERS POST FAST
TIMES AT THURSAY’S IOM TT RACES PRACTICE
After two days of
miserable weather, the sunshine returned to the Isle of Man
and Thursday evening’s practice session was held in almost
perfect conditions. A few damp patches remained under the
trees after two days of rain and riders were also warned off
mist in the Waterworks section. However, it was a civilian
incident in the Ballaugh area that prevented the action
getting underway on time and it was 6.41pm when the first
riders blasted off the line, Ryan Farquhar and Cameron
Donald leading the field away.
As per Monday evening, the majority of riders were Superbike
mounted with Farquhar being the main exception on his 600cc
Kawasaki and it was again Guy Martin who completed the first
lap at a speed of 126.191mph. The Suzuki pairing of Bruce
Anstey and Adrian Archibald were both over 125mph whilst
John McGuinness, who had made a number of changes to the
Padgett’s Honda Fireblade, was down the order at 121.58mph.
Dan Stewart again impressed at 123.95mph on his Superstock
machine with Ian Hutchinson, Carl Rennie, Gary Johnson and
Ian Lougher also lapping above 122mph.
McGuinness did three laps on his Superbike as he sought to
get the set up more to his liking and he set a lap of
126.69mph on his final lap to slot into second overall
behind Martin. One of the stars of the evening though was
Farquhar who took his Superstock machine around at
126.65mph, comfortably quicker than his personal best of
125.74mph set back in 2005. Anstey’s earlier lap saw him
finish 4th on the leaderboard with Hutchinson (126.29mph)
also making strides forward with the R1 Yamaha.
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