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It is with great pleasure that Team Flitwick Yamaha and Olie Linsdell announce their continued relationship for the 2010 Road Race season. Olie had looked set to really make a mark for himself in his first full year of Road Racing, and with strong finishes at Cookstown, Tandragee and the Northwest 200 it looked as though the young Flitwick man could really spring a few surprises at the TT.
After some strong early practice times, including a standing start Supersport lap of 120.9mph on Tuesday evening, and 122mph on his first ever Superbike circuit, disaster struck when a technical issue caused a high speed crash in the Glen Duff section of the mountain course on Wednesday.
The accident resulted in a broken left femur as well as severe damage to his knee and elbow. Despite the injuries Olie managed to recover well enough to pass a medical for the Manx GP less than three months later, where he competed on Giovanni Cabassi’s classic 500 Paton. By breaking the lap record twice and keeping Ryan Farqhuar at bay for more than two laps, before the bike eventually slowed and stopped, Olie showed that he has lost none of his desire or outright speed. When you consider that an X-Ray just three days before travelling showed that the leg was still fractured, it is clear that he will return to the Island in 2010 as both a mentally and physically stronger rider.
The accident proved to put quite a financial strain on the team however, by writing off the new Supersport R6. Since the Manx GP Olie and a group of loyal supporters have been working hard to put a competitive package together that will allow them to pick up where they left off in 2010, and attend to some unfinished business in both the Internationals and Irish National Road Racing events.
The team now finds themselves in a favourable position to announce John and Olaug Mann at SMV Engineering as title sponsors of a new Yamaha Supersport R6 machine, as well as the return to Team Flitwick Yamaha of Steve Bond, who will fund a new top spec R1 Superbike. The Superstock R1 provided by Peter Wheeler of Wheeler Electrical will be retained for a second campaign in what looks to form a formidable stable of machines. All bikes will be once again be supplied with the best rubber from Pirelli.
The provisional calendar of events see’s the main focus being on the three International meetings, with a good number of Irish national and Scarborough meetings included where funds allow. Olie is also currently looking into the possibility of taking the team to the Macau GP at the end of the year. Alongside its modern road racing efforts the team will be running in the newly announced ACU National Classic championship and at the Manx GP in August, as well as at selected Irish meetings.
Now that the team has the budget in place to build three competitive bikes they are left with the task of finding the necessary funding to complete a full season, and urge any potential backers to take a look at
www.olielinsdellracing.com or contact Olie by email at
olie@olielinsdellracing.com for more information. 2010 is going to be a year where every little helps, no matter how big or small. With Olie’s potential and the teams 30 years of experience, it could be one to remember!
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For more information regarding this press release please contact Olie –
Website:
www.olielinsdellracing.com Email:
olie@olielinsdellracing.com Phone: 07764 699856
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