Anglesey - April 2005

Alex took the chance to visit the Wirral 100 motorcycle club test day and first round of their championship at “The Trac-mon” circuit on the Island of Anglesey .

The track time was put to good use testing some new parts and I must admit giving Alex and the team valuable time familiarising our self with the bike.

Although the Malaguti is a fantastic machine it is a bit different to what we are used to and I am sure the mechanics among us will know what a difference it makes; when you start to know what tools you need and the procedures you need to follow to do specific jobs.

Speaking for myself, it was good to visit this well-known circuit which I for some reason always liken to a Butlins holiday camp rather than a race circuit; it is perhaps its location perched on a cliff so near to the sea that does it?

The chance to meet up with some familiar faces and get the time to watch other races over the weekend, even though due to a massive, massive oversight the team arrived at the circuit with no whisky and I had to make to with girly lager on Saturday night.

Alex was very pleased with the weekend every thing went to plan winning his races and even though conditions were not ideal getting to within 0.2 sec. of the lap record 48.8 set by Rob Butterworth in 2002.

We have come away a bit wiser, now the preparations start for the next round of the British championship on a very strange track to Alex, Thruxton this weekend 8/9/10 th April.

We would like to wish the Malaguti Moto-Gp team “Buono Fortuna” for the first round of their championships this same weekend at Jerez .