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Bittersweet First Round at Anglesey
20 April, 2008 - Anglesey (6-hour) - It was a
bittersweet weekend as Supersport 600 Championship
winners, Moores Racing geared up to defend their 2007
title, and the new Sweatshop Moores team aimed to
changed the 2007 second place into a Championship win
this year.
Friday testing went well with the Sweatshop Moores
Racing R1 bike being put through its paces by Hugh
Brasher, John Paul Scott and Nick Roake all getting to
grips with the new circuit. The Moores Racing R6 also
had a good day in the hands of Mike Eglington, Jim
Agombar and Tony Jimenez.
By Friday's end, not all boded well as Mike had a minor
off, the R6 throttle was very snatchey and the R1 front
was not full quick release as yet.
But Sweatshop Moores Racing put any fears to rest as
they took pole position in the Saturday qualifiers from
2007 Champions GBMoto and the Moores Racing boys
qualified third overall and first in class, so a feeling
of optimism pervaded the pit and hope reigned that the
rain would stay away.
But no. In typical Welsh fashion, the rain came and
stayed and in unbelievably cold and miserable
conditions, the first rirders in the LeMans start took
to the circuit in anger. Both teams had a fantastic
start with Jim Agombar taking the holeshot but were
overtaken by Sweatshop Moores. After some to-ing and
fro-ing with GBMoto, Sweatshop Moores were still in the
lead at the first hour with Moores Racing in 2nd
position overall.
After 90 minutes Sweatshop Moores was still in front
with Moores Racing in front of GBMoto, Throttle Monkey
and Team Viking. But fate decided to intervene when Mike
crashed at at the entry to Rocket at around 150mph when
he lost the front end and the bike barrel-rolled and hit
the armco fence taking most of the back of the bike off
in the process.
Thankfully Mike got away with a minor injury to his knee
but the bike was declared dead and as it was
unrecoverable, it was the end of Moores Racing at
Anglesey but Sweatshop Moores were still in the lead.
Although Team Viking took the lead briefly, Sweatshop
Moores regained it and held onto it to take the class
and overall win.
So it was triumph and tragedy with Hugh Brasher, John
Paul Scott and Nick Roake of Sweatshop Moores taking 25
points and leading the championship and Tony Jimenez,
Jim Agombar and Mike Eglington taking nil points and
bringing up the rear of the championship. Sweatshop
Moores will need to be on top of their game to continue
their winning streak and Moores Racing will have an
uphill struggle to be ready in time for Snetterton.
But throughout it all, the Pit Team performed impeccably
and without them and our sponsors none of this would be
at all possible.
See you at Snetterton.
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Championships,
click here.
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