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ALEX GAULT - MAG SPORT RACING 2007 - SS600 Scottish Championship
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Near Miss - Under Heavy Braking |
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Alex Gault the 16 year old motorcycle racer from Central Scotland had an amazing two days of racing in the Scottish Super Sport 600 Championship at the East Fortune Circuit just outside Edinburgh.
Despite Gault, by far the youngest rider in the championship; never having raced at the circuit before. This was the second time the Scottish Championship had visited the circuit this year, however Gault was unwell and did not take part in the first meeting.
He scored a 2nd, 1st, 3rd and 2nd in the four races over the weekend. Weather also played a part in the proceedings which included two Scottish Championship races and two Melville Club races.
The first race in the Scottish championship had to be declared after only 4 laps of the scheduled 10 being completed when a rider crashed out heavily, causing the race to be stopped, rain and time restraints, caused the organisers to call it a result with Alex being awarded the 2nd place finish.
The First of the Melville Club races was a cracker between Paul Wishart (Honda) and the Youngster Gault, with the Number 77 Suzuki of Gault taking the lead of the race on the last lap crossing the line 0.3 seconds in front of Wishart with Yamaha R6 Cup contender David Paton 3rd.
Sundays proceeding were held up due to inclement weather and standing water on the track, after a 3 hour delay racing got under way at 12 o’clock under very adverse weather conditions.
Alex managed a distant 2nd place to the pairing of Bob Grant (Honda) and David Paton (Yamaha) who were in a class of their own in the race.
The Melville Club race later in the afternoon turned out to be perhaps the race of the weekend!
Wishart (Honda), Gault (Suzuki) & Paton (Yamaha) together for the whole 10 laps, which saw all three lead at some point through the race and all three bikes never being separated by more than one second.
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A determined move to retake the lead
which didn’t come off |
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Alex led for the last five laps until on the last lap when going into the hairpin David Paton overtook him, although Gault almost recovered the position going into the final corner but had to lock up his brakes to avoid crashing into David, a fantastic save secured second position with Paul a very close third.
This was a stunning display of riding from Gault as all the front runners have been round this track many many times before.
For Alex to be mixing it with the quality of field in only his first race meeting at the circuit was very encouraging with Alex posting faster times on every outing.
It also moves him up into Second place in the Scottish Super Sport 600 Championship some 30 points behind the leader and 3 times winner of the championship Grant.
There are another 6 rounds to go and 150 points up for grabs, so despite not setting out to contest this Championship, Alex is in with a good shout of the title.
The next round takes place at Knockhill on the 9th of September.
Can the youngest challenger beat the old Fox?
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