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***Malcolm*** · 17-04-2015, 10:25 AM

Police have confirmed they are making inquiries into claims by TT rider Guy Martin that he drove a sports car around the Mountain Course at speeds of up to 180mph.

Guy test drove a £203,000 Aston Martin Vanquish Carbon Edition, which has a top speed of 200mph, for a review in the Sunday Times Driving magazine and joked: ‘Take off two wheels and I could set a TT record in it!’.

He claimed during his early morning circuit on open roads, he clocked 180mph down Sulby Straight, a restricted stretch of road, and completed a lap in 22 minutes.

Inspector Derek Flint said: ‘We are making some enquiries.’

In his review, Guy says:

‘I got out of bed at 5.30, leaving time to do a lap of the TT and get back to the hotel. As soon as I passed Union Mills, on to a section with no speed limit, I thought: “Right, let’s have it.”

‘About 17 miles into the lap there’s a corner called Ballacrye, a fast left out of the village of Ballaugh.

‘I just got around it with the accelerator flat to the floor. There’s a jump after the corner, and the car was off the ground, all the lights flashing on the dash telling me everything was dropping off. It fishtailed when it landed, but there was so much feedback from the Aston I felt totally in control. I saw 180mph down Sulby Straight, one of the fastest sections of the course, and the car wasn’t even in top gear.

‘I hadn’t been trying to set a time; I’d just wanted to see what the car would do on a road I knew well and it was something like a 22-minute lap.’

Adrian Darbyshire

Dogsbody · 17-04-2015, 11:28 AM

Perhaps Steady Eddie was marshaling for him?
Seriously, not the sort of publicity motorcycling needs. If he did it on closed roads in front of the Subaru I would be more impressed.
Dogsbody

c iom tt · 17-04-2015, 01:34 PM

He has said that he got rid of his own Aston Martin as he was 'unimpresed' with it.

***Alfie Noakes*** · 20-04-2015, 02:32 PM

Somebody would have seen/heard it and they'd be in the press by now .. he's talking out of his 4rse ... again.

MIKE B8S · 20-04-2015, 06:55 PM

He's either full of it or he's the exact type of idiot that us bikers carnt stand! If he really did do 180 down sulby, that mean's he would have had to cut across onto the wrong side of the road for the right kink before the bridge without knowing what's coming the other way. If there was something coming the other direction it goes without saying the mess there would be. I'm no angel when it comes to speed, but I'd never put a innocent motorists life a risk. I really liked guy once, but silly things like this that seemed to start when closer to the edge was filmed, teamed with his fan boys that sometimes make me cringe there that daft have really put me off him. Hope he has a safe season but I'm not going to lose any sleep when he retires, shame because like I say before 2011 I really liked him.

eman1948 · 20-04-2015, 08:23 PM

Well we were all young once but I suppose we were all Goody Two Shoes and never ever did stupid and silly things that we could look back on and cringe. Angel

***Alfie Noakes*** · 20-04-2015, 10:35 PM

"I drove down Sulby Straight on open roads at 180mph in my Ford Cholmondley-Warner Express and I could have gone faster mate" .. read that to yourself and let me know if it sounds as ridiculous to you as it does to me .. What would you be thinking if one of your mates told you the same thing ?. My Goody 2 Shoes list is cringeworthy but isn't for public reading.

MIKE B8S · 20-04-2015, 11:06 PM

(20-04-2015, 08:23 PM)eman1948 Wrote: Well we were all young once but I suppose we were all Goody Two Shoes and never ever did stupid and silly things that we could look back on and cringe.

Don't get me wrong eman I've done plenty of stupid things, paid the price in some cases. You have to admit though, taking a blind bend on the wrong side of the road is dangerous at the any speed. Let alone one 180.

***captainsparkledotcom*** · 21-04-2015, 06:37 AM

Don't believe everything you read!

Just an observation, based on previous experience!

Steady the Edward · 21-04-2015, 08:39 AM

Dont the Manx just love wasting money , EVIDENCE ???? news paper bull s--- ,

Revvin rich · 21-04-2015, 08:33 PM

Talk about incriminating evidence he will be getting his collar felt as soon as he gets off the boat or plane when he gets to the TT this year. lol

***captainsparkledotcom*** · 21-04-2015, 09:58 PM

I have to laugh at how it says, on the main forum page, 'Manx police to probe Guy'! Icon_biggrin

***captainsparkledotcom*** · 21-04-2015, 10:02 PM

(21-04-2015, 08:39 AM)Steady the Edward Wrote: Dont the Manx just love wasting money , EVIDENCE ???? news paper bull s--- ,

Whats that they say Eddy?
"any publicity....etc etc"

Well, a lot of people are talking about -
Guy Martin
TT races
Isle of Man
Aston Martin
Sunday Times

harveymushman · 28-04-2015, 11:05 PM

+1 Steady Eddie - paper talk bullcrap - Someone probably asked Guy how the Aston would go around the TT Course and bingo a few quid for a Freelance journalist and a paper chase for Manx Police - seem to remember Guy getting into same mumbo jumbo about a run out on a GSX past the Robin Hoods airport

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