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The
weekend
Brands Hatch organisers have excelled themselves. Donington
Park please take note!
Great camping, loos and showers cleaned every few minutes
with plenty of hot water, sinks and mirrors. A well
spaced out campsite with a Sainsburys' shop (as usual)
and good security made Brands seem more like camping
on the South Coast.
It helped that the weekend was blessed with glorious
sunshine of course, as the Brands WSB often seems to
be.
The Po Boys played on Saturday night. That was a little
odd - three separate acoustic sets in a marquee with
the band members sitting on stools and sipping water.
It seems a little incongruous when we're more used to
a mosh pit and mud wrestling. Hopefully we'll be back
to normal next year.
The Races
The racing was marred somewhat by Fabien Foret's
horrific looking crash on his
Yamaha in the Supersport race. He was run over by 2
bikes in a high speed incident, though it appears it
may not be as bad as it looked on the big screen.
The ever popular Noriyuki Haga made it a double win
with an outstanding performance to emerge only 6 points
of the championship lead. Maybe he can make up for that
(seemingly) unfair drug incident a couple of years ago.
However Chris Vermeulen was on form again and end only
2 points behind championship leader Regis Laconi.
Frankie Chili had a crash in Race One, looking defeated
as he walked from the kitty litter, but managed to fight
again in race two to take second place. Haga let him
have centre seat at the press conference - respect was
due.
James Toseland had a bad day with a 7th and a crash.
Chris Walker pulled a brilliant 4th place in race two.
Race 1 -
1. Haga
2 . Laconi
3 .Martin
4. Vermeulen
5. Corser
6. Ellison
7. Toseland
8. Coxhell
9. Walker
10. Nennelli
Race 2 -
1.Haga
2. Chili
3. Vermeulen
4. Walker
5. Ellison
6 . Bussei
7. McCoy
8. Coxhell
9. Gimbert
10. Sanchini
Championship Standings:
1. Laconi 218
2. Vermeulen 216
3. Haga 212
4. Toseland 210
5. Chili 180
6 . McCoy 155
7. Martin 135
8. Haslam 120
9. Corser 112
10. Walker 102
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