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 Adrian McFarland a MAG member who "Races" last season has come on board for 2001 as a team member of "MAG Sport Racing"
Adrian will be riding for Chris Dowd next season aboard a trio of Hondas, a 600 a tuned 600 and a Fireblade and will be competing in the major Irish road races and the Isle of Man TT.
Last seasons rider for Chris Dowd was Adrian Archibald who has moved on to a Team Honda contract.
Adrian hails from Plumbridge, CO Tyrone in Northern Ireland. He is 31 years old and his first race was at Nutts Corner in July 1991 riding a RGV 250.
Adrian commenced Road Racing in 1993 finishing fifth in his first meeting. He came to prominence in the 1995 Junior Manx GP Newcomers Race with a second place and a fastest lap of 112.07mph and continued with a sixth place in the Senior Manx GP with good results in the Road Race Championships back home.
With excellent results in the following years Manx GP and Southern 100 races and Irish Road Race Championships 1997 saw a switch to the TT with a couple of Bronze replicas and constant high placings on short circuit and road races.
1999 was Adrian's most successful season of Road Racing to date, having won his first major Road Race at the Tandragee "100" National Meeting in May, following that with wins at the Dundrod "150" Road Races and in the Isle of Man. The season gave Adrian four race victories, four seconds, five thirds and two sixth places in 1999, ending the season third in the Irish Supersport 600cc Road Racing Champion ships; fifth in the Senior category of the Championships and sixth in the prestigious Regal 600cc Championship and the Lambert & Butler Challenge Series. In the Joe Lindsay Memorial Series he also took third place. On top of his 1999 achievements, he also received the "Man of the Meeting" Award at the Dundrod "150" race meeting in June 1999, and set no less than four race and lap records during the season.
Although the 2000 season wasn't Adrian's best he managed to win two 600 races at the Southern 100 a first place at the Cookstown 100 Road Races early in the season with a fourth at the Tandragee 100 National Road Races and finished off with a third at the Carrowdore and a triple of fifths and a sixth at Bishopcourt short circuit.
For next season he will be competing in the Irish Road Race Championships the Regal and Lambert & Butler series also the North West 200 and the Ulster Grand Prix.
Adrian will also be back to the Isle of Man for the TT the International Steam Packet Road Races the Southern 100 and the Jurby South pure Roads National.
We will be following Adrian's progress throughout the year and keeping you up dated.
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