August is over the hump and drawing to a close and I haven't put finger to keyboard yet. The bank holiday weekend is almost upon us and for the Isle of Man that can only mean: Manx Grand Prix or is it festival of racing or Classic TT, I'm not sure. What I can sure about is there will be racing on the Mountain Circuit. Not as fast as the TT but fast enough. A mix of amateurs and professionals riding on classic bikes but without Guy Martin as the mutton chopped grafter didn't sign on in time.
I've even managed to pop out myself and catch some practice action. After crossing over the St Ninian's footbridge I was whisked by fast car to the Union Mill area. A brief hike through a public park and along the old railway line, under the bridge and finally through what looked like someone's yard and I was at The Railway pub. I think it's recently reopened, it had certainly had a lick of paint. There had been an off just before I arrived, a rider, Scott Smyth I think, had hit the straw protection. The rider was ok and the bike was slightly bent.
I saw a few other bikes go past. I'm not sure of the class although they weren't modern machines. Many of the riders looked far to big for them with legs all over the place.
It's a difficult weekend for the dedicated motorcycle fan with the Czech Motogp round being held in Brno as. Will Marquez outdo his outrageous pass of Rossi on the Corkscrew at Laguna Sec from the previous round? I'm not sure how he can.
Here's a couple more pictures from practice week, showing first Kamil Holan who's left the pleasures of his native land hosting the Motogp and secondly Michael Dunlop both at Union Mills.
Thanks to AJS Images for those.
And finally one I took at the Corkscrew in 2010. When Marquez passed Rossi, the later was on the curb and the young Spanish tyro was dirt tracking.
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