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PROBLEMS FOR PETER HICKMAN IN SUPERSPORT TT

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« on: June 09, 2015, 10:53:35 am »

Peter Hickman was out on Monday evening on the MV Agusta/Iron Maiden Trooper Beer Supersport machine to make his debut in the first Supersport race at the Isle of Man TT festival. But after encountering problems on his refuelling stop he was only able to complete the race in 21st position.

 

Peter has not ridden a Supersport bike for many years but he quickly adapted to it and was soon on the pace. He was the 21st rider away and made good progress to 18th at the first checkpoint at Glen Helen completing the lap in 17th position.

 

On lap two he made his way forward to 13th position as he came in for the pit stop for fuel. But that is when it all went wrong for the Lincolnshire rider as there was a problem firing the bike up again. The team persevered and eventually Peter got away for his final two laps; but he had lost three precious minutes in the pits making it a big ask to get back up the field.

 

At Glen Helen he was registered in 34th place on corrected time and any other rider would have given up; but Peter was determined to bring the bike home to a strong finish and got his head down, making up places to 28th at the end of lap three.

 

On the final lap he was flying, registering 162.5mph through the speed trap at Sulby and completed the final lap in a creditable 21st place, posting his fastest lap of the race with a 123.9mph average speed.

 

Peter said: "The bike was mega, until she refused to start after the fuel stop; but for that we would have finished in eighth position. But apart from that I was happy with the bike and my performance, especially setting my fastest time on the final lap. Thanks to the team who worked really hard to get the bike running again they were amazing."

 

The next race for Peter is the Superstock event and then it is back to the 600 for the second Supersport race on Wednesday. Peter will round off his week with the High profile Senior TT on Friday before returning to the mainland to prepare for the next round of the British Superbike championship.
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