The Irish Road Racing Season is officially back! The 2019 season is, as is customary, kicked off with the Cookstown 100. Today is the dominated by Practice and Qualifying and a few races to wrap the night up.
Qualifying has just finished so here are all the results and timings that will set things up for tomorrow’s race day!
It’s great to be back on the roads, and here’s to a safe, incident free and exciting 2019 for all riders, teams, events, marshals, spectators, fans, teams… you get it – here’s to 2019!
Guy Martin has entered this year’s KDM Hire Cookstown 100 which is running on the 26th and 27th April 2019.
The Grimsby rider was set to compete at the 2018 event before mechanical issues with his BSA Rocket unfortunately sidelined him. Back then he promised to return and this year will uphold that promise and is set to contest this year’s classic race on that same machine.
Guy Martin is set to race Cookstown in 2019 on his BSA Rocket
Guy Martin : ‘I’ve not given up on racing or road racing, there’s unfinished business and I want to race classics and odd ball stuff.’
Guy Martin has had previous success at Cookstown, taking his Tyco BMW Superbike to the win in 2015 and his attendance in 2019 will certainly attract his fans to the Cookstown event.
KDM HIRE COOKSTOWN 100 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS :
Thursday 4th April 2019 – Press Launch Royal Hotel from 7.30pm
Thursday 11th April 2019 – Liaison Night, Royal Hotel 7.30 pm
Sunday 14thApril 2019 – Annual Bikers Service Orritor Presbyterian Church 3.30pm
Thursday 25th April 2019 – Annual Classic Bike Run Sign on from 6.30pm in Burn Rd, Car Park, leaving at 7.15pm
Friday 26th April 2019 – KDM Hire Cookstown 100 Practice Day – Roads Close at 12 Noon
Saturday 27th April 2019 – KDM Hire Cookstown 100 Race Day – Roads Close at 10.00am
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The Racing at the 2018 Cookstown 100 got off to an energetic start!With big and wee bikes all getting in on the actionWith teams and privateers all staking their claim…Then in typical Northern Irish fashion the rain came!
Great news for the Northern Irish Road Racing Scene in the form of Guy Martin returning for 2 confirmed events!
Guy Martin to race on the 2018 N.Irish Roads!
Guy Martin will be returning to the Northern Irish Road Races this year with his first stop being the Cookstown 100 on 27th and 28th April 2018. Guy will be riding his own 750 BSA in the Yesteryear Classic Race.
Then it’s off to one of Guy’s favourite courses – Tandragee – for the Tandragee 100 where he will again pilot his BSA in the Forgotten Era and Classic Races. The Tandragee 100 runs on 4th and 5th May 2018 .
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Guy Martin looking focused on the 2017 Honda Fireblade – Practice Session 30th May 2017 – Isle of Man TT Races
The internet has went crazy today reporting on Guy Martin retiring from Road Racing. As a Guy Martin fan, that is of course devastating news, and I honestly believe that most pure fans of road racing will also agree that Guy was / is good for the sport and its profile. However following an ‘exclusive interview’ with MCN it looks like his road racing days are over…
With huge publicity surrounding the partnership of John McGuiness and Guy Martin on the new Honda FireBlade things looked perfect for the 2017 season.
Then it all started to unwind. A poor Tandragee 100 started the season with Guy crashing out on his first lap, followed by an uneventful Cookstown 100 and North West 200 (at the same time as losing team mate John McGuinness to a horrific crash) which led us to the Isle of Man. After the ‘box of neutrals’ incident Honda withdrew from the rest of the event. Guy went onto a second place in the TTZero with Team Mugen, his team mate Bruce Anstey taking the win in that event.
Then the press release came that Honda and Guy would not be participating in the Ulster Grand Prix, a circuit that has brought Guy great success as well as proving almost deadly in 2015.
At this point I think most of us thought the writing on the wall was now here.
Guy Martin’s Road Racing days are over.
Explaining his decision to call it a day in an exclusive interview with MCN’s Matt Wildee, Guy said: “Racing’s been good to me, but I’m bored of it. You spend the early part of the year preparing for the season – testing, racing, talking about it, and then doing it all over again. It’s like Groundhog Day. It’s time to stop.”
With the shutter speed sorted for the 2017 Cookstown 100 I got a absolute mountain of photos. Couple this with an amazing vantage spot I got some cracking photographs of some of the action and (hopefully) most of the riders.
If you see yourself feel free to tag yourself in the comments and I have full size images of all the photos, if you would like some of them please just let me know!
This was my first trip to the Cookstown 100 and it is an outstanding race meeting that I am looking forward to returning to!
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