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Macau Grand Prix - thewitch - 17-11-2007
Conor Cummins... best newcomer or what!
1st Plater
2nd McGuinness
3rd Hinterreiter
4th Toye
5th Cummins
6th Millar
- thewitch - 17-11-2007
Michael Rutter ran off somewhere. Don't know if he finished. Must have been trying soo hard for that 7th win.
Steve Plater's smile will be dazzling!
- Malcolm - 17-11-2007
What an amazing result for young Conor Cummins.
First time at Macau and finishing in 5th place.
Via telephone early this morning his quote was "This place is fu***n awesome".
Looks like NCT racing will be shipping a bike over there next year for him then, and also possibly out to Daytona, as both Neil and Conor really want to have a crack at the latter.
Apparently, Conor took to Macau like a duck to water. "He was so smooth everywhere" said Joe Grant "and looked as if he was a regular out here".
High praise indeed for the young man and I can tell you that Neil of NCT is over the moon with this result for Conor, as I am too.
Hopefully a press release will be issued shortly.
- cargo - 17-11-2007
I saw the results this morning when I got in from work and my first thought was that a certain Team Manager would be smiling........... :wink:
results !!!!! - ian huntly - 17-11-2007
http://www.racecorporation.co.uk/Macau_2007.htm
- thewitch - 17-11-2007
Well done Steve Allan, winning the 600 again.
- Don Simons - 18-11-2007
Congratulations, another brilliantly successful meeting organised by the local Macau Grand Prix Committee held under the F.I.M sporting code.
- pykey - 18-11-2007
Well done Conner.
- Stella - 19-11-2007
Hope i`m not speaking out of turn here, but i reckon Brian Morrison and Ian Duffus will be well pleased also on Connors very impressive result !
As it was DMR racing that gave him the opportunity at Macau ?
No, you are not speaking out of turn Stella, and if my posting inferred that it was NCT that gave Connor the ride in Macau, I apologise for that.
Malcolm.
- y2blade - 19-11-2007
good result for plater
im so glad that tw@t Rutter wasnt on the podium
- thewitch - 19-11-2007
Well, I'm sorry he wasn't. Six wins is the equal top result there, and I have great respect for that.
- y2blade - 19-11-2007
thewitch Wrote:Well, I'm sorry he wasn't. Six wins is the equal top result there, and I have great respect for that.
fair comment
- thewitch - 19-11-2007
Doesn't mean I'm not delighted for Steve. Anyone with a grin like that is a winner with me! And I like MR too... so maybe our experiences of him are different.
- y2blade - 19-11-2007
thewitch Wrote:Doesn't mean I'm not delighted for Steve. Anyone with a grin like that is a winner with me! And I like MR too... so maybe our experiences of him are different.
i WAS a big fan of M.Rutter's until i met him
- Stella - 19-11-2007
Stella Wrote:Hope i`m not speaking out of turn here, but i reckon Brian Morrison and Ian Duffus will be well pleased also on Connors very impressive result !
As it was DMR racing that gave him the opportunity at Macau ?
No, you are not speaking out of turn Stella, and if my posting inferred that it was NCT that gave Connor the ride in Macau, I apologise for that.
Malcolm.
Sorry Malcom, it was late and i probably misread the way it was posted, great result all round i reckon 8)
- Stella - 19-11-2007
thewitch Wrote:Michael Rutter ran off somewhere. Don't know if he finished. Must have been trying soo hard for that 7th win.
Steve Plater's smile will be dazzling!
Helen, this is from Crash.net
Quote:
Also with good reason to drown his sorrows was pole sitter and joint Macau record-holder Rutter. The 34-year-old Aviva MSS Discovery Kawasaki rider had been hoping for a seventh Macau win, but was left without even a podium after being forced down the escape road at the 90 degree Lisboa corner three laps from the end when Austrian rival Thomas Hinterreiter rode side-by-side with him towards the turn.
"I'm gutted," confessed Rutter, who eventually finished eleventh. "These things happen in racing but this isn't the result we came all this way for, nor is it the result me and the team deserved after an excellent couple of qualifying sessions. I've got to put this behind me now and look forward to next year. I'd like to think I will be back here again in 2008 to get a record seventh win, as Steve's got some way to go to catch me up!"
"To say that we're disappointed is an understatement. To be on pole position with a lap of that calibre and then to end up in 11th is simply devastating," admitted team owner Nicky Morgan. "It is one of those things but it seems to have summed up our luck this year - almost non-existent!"
- larryd - 19-11-2007
All that means is that Thomas wanted it more than Michael did :!:
- Stella - 19-11-2007
Yes as the old saying goes "Thats Racing" ! 8)
- Stella - 19-11-2007
Oh and a great result for both the Steve`s ....Plater and the newly married Steve Allan two of the nicest guys in racing 8)
Congratulations to AIM for a crackin result