TT3D: Closer to the Edge Page #8

What's the plan? These boys

are asking what the plan is.

The plan is you're riding the bike.

Ah, well, there you go.

That's it sorted. Job done.

Well, obviously a fair bit

of mist up here,

Douglas, at the moment around the area

here. It is clear up on the top...

Starting off

with the TT Superbike race.

Six laps of the course,

226. 38 miles.

A reminder; this is a time trial,

they go at 10 second intervals,

so they're racing the clock

just as much as each other

Most important, of course,

they race themselves.

They race tradition, they race

the history of the mountain course.

We're one minute away

from the start of racing

at this year's T The laws of averages

tell me he's going to win.

I would like him to win the first race

because I believe that will settle him.

If he wins the first race,

he 'll win three or four.

I really believe in him.

And it is a Suzuki that

sets us going, there goes Bruce Anstey.

With mist still rolling

along Glencrutcheny Road,

but we are racing.

And there is the number

one machine of Bruce Anstey.

And he's very compact

there through Union Mills.

And there is John McGuinness,

the fastest man in the history

of the mountain course.

And here 's Hutch y with two wins

last year; but not on a superbike-

Next off is number eight,

28 years of age,

here comes Guy now.

He's fast down Bray Hill.

Good turn speed.

And here we go. We're on. Two together

John McGuinness leads on the road

ahead of Bruce Anstey.

Number six,

Cameron Donald, is closing the gap

between him and Keith Amor

They've got a battle on there,

the advantage being held

by Cameron Donald

but here is Guy Martin now

and he's quick!

John McGuinness

has had an amazing start to this race

but Conor Cummins,

the local lad, is right behind him

only eight-hundredths of a second down

in second place.

Back here in the Grandstand,

I can tell you from my screen

that Conor Cummins has taken the lead

at Ballaugh on corrected time

a three second

lead over John McGuinness.

But John clearly has problems because

at the Sulby speed trap

he's gone through

at only 136.4 miles an hour

So, clearly problems with

John McGuinness and the big Honda.

But up to Ramsey and Roy Moore.

Well, they said it was

going to be close and it is,

cos Guy Martin's here...

Oh, my goodness!

Guy Martin was nearly taken out there

by Michael Dunlop, and it was close.

Conor Cummins, number 10,

leads by six seconds

before lan Hutchinson.

It's then in third place Guy Martin,

just one second down on Hutchinson.

John McGuinness

is a retirement on Sulby Straight.

What a disappointment,

the king of the mountain

is out on the first lap

but on with the show.

Number four who is leading on the road.

I can tell you that number 10

has increased his lead to 14 seconds

over number four; lan Hutchinson.

We could see a Manxman

on the top of the podium

for the first time for several years.

Cummins has got that fantastic

lead now 21 seconds.

If he can just hang it together

there will certainly be some Guinness

drunk in the Swan in Ramsey tonight.

And lan Hutchinson 's

lap time, 130.496,

So here's Conor now,

let's have a look at this.

Oh, it's 131.511 by Conor Cummins.

And, wow, what a performance

by the man from Ramsey.

Well, the light came on at Cronk-ny-Mona

to signal the arrival

of number six, Cameron Donald,

but he's failed to appear

Now we reckon that Cameron may have

made a mistake on that lap,

possibly an overshoot at Signpost

That seems one logical explanation

for that.

We've just got

another machine coming in now,

and that'd be Guy Martin is in now,

Guy's just coming in to

the top of the pit lane now

and it's Conor's that's on the way

as he's just being told there.

Bring it home, Conor; bring it home.

He knows he's got

a 21.1 lead at Glen Helen.

On this lap, 23. 3.

Well, there 's the klaxon going,

Hutchy leaves now.

And Cameron, he'll be kicking himself

for that mistake,

he's now dropped to 13th.

Oh, Conor stalls! Conor stalls!

Is he gonna get it going here now,

it just won? #re up-

Quite a bit of time. Come on, come on,

come on, come on, oh, no, no, no.

It's fired, it's fired!

Oh, Conor; a big shake of the head

from the big man from Ramsey there.

Guy Martin goes as well, and Guy's fast

into the speed limiter there,

and nails it. Charlie Lambert.

So, a 21 second lead,

and all of a sudden

it was down to four seconds.

Seventeen seconds disappeared

during the course of that problem,

of getting the big ZX-10 fired up again.

So, ifs all to play for

then in the final two laps

and there's some work

to be done by Cameron

to eat into Conor's lead.

So, Conor Cummins, lan Hutchinson,

Guy Martin and Michael Dunlop,

those are the top four

The order is the same, but the gap

has most certainly changed.

First of the late-numbered runners now

in pit lane.

And here 'S number 26, Paul Dobbs,

racing with the kiwi on his helmet

and there's Jenny, away now.

And we've just had

news that Conor's missing.

Conor Cummins

missing here at Glen Helen.

Waved yellows out here as

a new machine comes into view now.

No, it's not Conor; either.

That's number eight, Guy Martin.

Conor missing at Glen Helen.

I can tell you

what's happened to Conor

He's a retirement,

mechanical failure at Laurel Bank.

A retirement at Laurel Bank.

A mechanical failure.

Huge disappointment there for Conor

So it's lan Hutchinson,

number four who's leading on the road.

There 's number eight, Guy Martin

into second place for now.

And there 's one,

two, three into view now.

Those three are going to have

a real old scrap over the mountain

and that's going to be

well worth looking at.

It's not only Conor

that has bad news.

We've just heard that the

new timing system here in the pits

has claimed

its first-high profile victim

with Guy Martin picking up

a 30-second time penalty.

That's moved him down from

what would have been second place

down to fourth place. So, off the podium

for Guy and lan Hutchinson, the

30-year-old from Bingley in Yorkshire

is the leader of the Superbike T with Michael Dunlop now in second place.

I know it's Hutchy winning, but keep

an eye on number six, Cameron Donald,

despite that excursion at Signpost

finishing the race very strongly indeed

and that final place on the podium

is not nailed just yet.

You can see the chequered Hag

is now being prepared.

Here comes

the wheelie of Ian Hutchinson,

and lan Hutchinson wins

on the Padgett's Honda.

The final result sheet,

Hutchy one, Dunlop two, Donald three,

and Guy Martin

finishing in fourth place.

And it was a time penalty

that cost Guy so dearly.

So, when I was in pit lane,

I heard him announce

that Guy had gone through

the speed lane too fast

and there was a time penalty

against him, now that's all I've heard.

We just lost second place.

When Guy was told he just

jumped off the bike, got into his van.

He didn't even take his helmet off

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