Haven't posted a message for some time, so I thought a Macau response was a fair time to return since I rode there from 1988 to 1993. In fact I have a photo of Kevin Shwantz and I going round the hairpin together, in practice for the 88 event. Yes he was amazing, though he did have the only GP bike in the race, he left everyone far behind.
It has always puzzled me that folk would race, and race quite hard round Macau, and not race the TT, the Ulster, or the NW200.It wasn't really the money,although the whole trip was free for you and your mechanic.No doubt about it, Macau was and is a very dangerous circuit. I recall one Malaysian being killed at Yacht Club bend in a Junior race before ours, and the TV producers kept replaying the accident time after time on the pit lane TV's immediately before our race!!
After a car race one out the Chinese gangs shot dead one of the car drivers in the saloon race because the wrong driver won the race.
However, if it was fun and games you wanted at Macau, all you had to do was follow Steve Parrish around to the Lisboa Hotel, and watch him get up to some tricks.
What goes on tour, stays on tour. Happy days