25.07.10. Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Race, Japan, Race day. The Honda MuSashi Harc Pro Racing Team showed determination to win the 2010 Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance race in Japan. The Honda ridden by Ryuichi Kiyonari, Takaaki Nakagami and Takumi Takahashi took victory under the heat of a sunny Suzuka, ahead of two other Honda's, which were hands on favourites to win.The Keihin Kohara Honda sqaud of Shinichi Itoh and Makoto Tamada, and the FCC TSR Honda ridden by Kosuke Akiyoshi, Britain's Johnathan Rea and Yuki Takahashi took third.
24.07.10. Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Race, Japan, Superpole. Team Yoshimura Suzuki with ENEOS has taken pole position for Sunday's Coca-Cola Zero Suzuka 8 Hour World Endurance third round in Japan. Team rider Daiasku Sakai set the fastest lap aboard the factory Suzuki GSX-R1000 in the closing stages of the third session with a time of 2'07 .905 to finish ahead of leader of the opening two sessions. FCC TSR Honda's Kosuke Akiyoshi along with Britain's Johnathan Rea who is riding in the three man team team put in a stunning performance to go second fastest. Different rules apply at Suzuka for Superpole as the top time taken from the fastest rider, rather than the average of the other team riders. In what is building up to the battle between the Japanese manufacturers, Keihin Kohara Racing Honda collected third place on the grid with MuSASHI RT HARC-PRO Honda fourth.
23.07.10. Moneymore based Relentless by TAS Suzuki has confirmed today it's involvement at the forthcoming Ulster Grand Prix on August 14th with riders Brue Anstey and Cameron Donald. It will be the final part of the 2010 international road racing jigsaw for Phillip Neal's team, and both are confident of adding to this season's North West 200 Supersport and Superbike wins, not forgetting the teams prestigious Isle of Man Superbike and Senior TT podiums in June. Since the TT, both Cameron Donald and Bruce Anstey have been resting back in their native Australia and New Zealand, with Donald now in France to catch the final stages of Tour de France.
11.06.10. IOM TT Dainese Senior Superbike race. Padgetts Honda rider Ian Hutchinson made history today at the 2010 Monster Energy Isle of Man TT by being the first rider to take five wins in a row. The initial 6-lap race got underway under blue skies and beautiful sunshine but was red flagged after Guy Martin crashed resulting in his machine catching fire. After a 30 minute delay the race was re-run over 4-laps where Hutchinson took the lead when John McGuinness and Connor Cummins retired and crashed leaving the Hutchinson to ease off on the final lap to take his fifth win of the week some 37. 77 seconds clear of MSS Colchester Kawasaki's Ryan Farquhar and Relentless TAS Suzuki's Bruce Anstey. Ian Hutchinson beat the record of 11 time champion Phillip McCallen who was previously the only man in the TT's 103-year-old history to win 4 races in a week, which he achieved in 1996.
11.06.10. IOM TT. The ACU regret to announce that Martin Loicht 48, from Vienna, Austrai was killed in the Supersport 2 race yesterday at the TT, the accident happened at Quarry Bends. Martin had experiance in the TT at the Southern 100. He was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Institute of Technology, Vienna. He was married to Nikola with two children. The ACU offers their deepest sympathy to the rider's family and friends.
Dr Paul King, technical director, ACU, commented :
"I got to know Martin really well by working with him on the Zero TT project as he was developing a bike to compete in that race. He was a real character who was passionate and committed to motorcycling and he reflected the amateur spirit and endevaour that pervades the TT".
10.06.10. IOM TT. After rain postponed the Monster Energy Supersport race yesterday the riders welcomed the near ideal conditions for the races to go ahead today. Ian Hutchinson made history today by taking his fourth win in a row in the Supersport class equalling Phillip McCallen's long standing record and could go onto to beat the Irishman's record if he wins the final race of the TT in tomorrows Senior Superbike race. Street Sweep/Hardship racing Yamaha's Michael Dunlop was disappointed with his second, but did manage set a new lap record of 127.836mph with Kojack Racing Honda's Keith Amour taking another third. Wilson Craig Honda's Guy Martin looked up for a podium but faded in the dying moments of the race ahead Padgetts Honda's John McGuinness and McAdoo Racing Kawasaki's Connor Cummins. CD Racing Yamaha's William Dunlop took seventh with Relentless TAS Suzuki's Bruce Anstey, KMR Kawasaki's Ryan Farqhar and Manx Gas Yamaha's Dan Keen all finishing in the top ten.
08.06.10. IOM TT. Royal London 360 Superstock race. Padgetts Honda rider Ian Hutchinson powered his way to his sixth TT title by taking victory in the Royal London 360 Superstock race. Throughout the four lap race it was KMR Kawasaki Racing's Ryan Farqhar who opended up a five second lead and looked set to take victory, but a hard charging Hutchinson put everything into the final 37.03 mile lap to cross the finish line 0.03 seconds to beat Farqhar with the Mcadoo Kawasaki Racing's Connor Cummins in third.
07.06.10. IOM TT. Monster Energy Supersport race. Ian Hutchinson made it two out of two at the 2010 Isle of Man TT races fuelled by Monster Energy when he won a record-breaking and thrilling first Monster Energy Supersport race this morning, taking victory by just 3.03 seconds. The Padgetts Honda rider overhauled Guy Martin to take his fifth TT victory with the Wilson Craig Honda having to settle for second whilst Michael Dunlop came through a sluggish first lap to take third.
05.06.10. IOM TT. Pokerstars Superbike race. Ian Hutchinson won a drama-filled and heavily delayed Pokerstars Senior Superbike race today. The Padgetts Honda rider came home over 33 seconds ahead of Michael Dunlop with Cameron Donald who clawed his way back from thirteenth took third. Maxman Connor Cummins seemingly had the race in the bag and, after a stunning opening lap of 131. 511mph, just missed out on the outright lap record by a whisker, had a commanding twenty one second lead at the end of the fourth lap but problems at the second pit stop saw his lead whittled down to four seconds and he was soon reported to be slowing down at Laurel Bank where he was forced to retire. Heavy mist in the Douglas area saw the 12.00pm start pushed back to 3.30pm and when the race did finally get underway. mist still layed at the bottom of the two-mile course. Fifteen time champion John McGuinness forged an early lead, the HM Plant Honda rider holding a slender 0.08 second advantage over Connor Cummins at Glen Helen with Ian Hutchinson and Caeron Donald in third and fourth. However, McGuinness was later reported to be touring along the Sulby Straight where he was forced to retire, but this mattered little to Hutchinson who was now setting a ferocious pace to eventually take him to the chequred flag. Guy Martin took fourth for the Wilson Craig Honda racing team ahead of AMA Suzuki racing's Adrian Archibald and HM Plant Honda's Keith Amor. Blackhorse Kawasaki's Ian Lougher pipped Batham's Honda rider Michael Rutter for seven with Wilcox Consulting Honda's Daniel Stewart and MSS Colchester Kawasaki's Ryan Farghar completing the top ten.
02.04.10. AMA. Michael Jordan Motorsport's Aaron Yates has undergone surgery after breaking his leg in practice prior to race four of the 2010 AMA Championship in Fontana, California last weekend.
Yates had already turned in the fastest time in the Sunday morning practice session, when he crashed exiting turn ten and was run over by M4 Monster Energy Suzuki's Chris Ulrich. Ulrich was right behind Yates when he crashed and was unable to avoid contact. He underwent six hours of surgery, performed by famed Motorsport's surgeon Dr Tom Bryan who repaired two tibial fractures of the right leg - one just below the knee and one above the ankle, and a third lower break of the fibula. Yates is resting comfortably and will remain in hospital several more days and will be out of action for at least six to eight weeks.
