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Kallio Has Stone Problem in Barcelona. Canepa 18th
Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by admin.
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Not the easiest start for the Pramac Racing Team in the first day of free practice in the Grand Prix of Cataluña. Mika Kallio began with interesting lap times, but in the last part of the session he couldn’t improve on seventeenth position
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Outright TT Lap Record for Mcguinness but no Race Win
Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Morecambe’s John McGuinness set a new outright lap record during Friday’s Senior TT race but he was cruelly denied a 16th TT win when the chain broke on the fourth lap. Having broken his own lap record on the first lap, he totally smashed it on the second and, with a sensational lap of 131.578mph, he moved clear but the retirement put paid to any hopes of claiming the race for a fifth consecutive year.