The East Coast club celebrated success in running their
first meeting this afternoon in a showery afternoons racing.
Derek McGee was also in a celebratory mood as he added the
Irish Roads Superbike title to his tally of 2017 awards. Finishing 3rd in the “Friends of Road Racing” Open race was enough to deny
the determined efforts of Derek Sheils who would win the race from Micko
Sweeney.
In the 600cc Caffrey International Non-Championship and Kennedy
Motorcycles 600cc Irish Championship races, Micko went one better winning both
races. Paul Jordan was 3rd.
Joe Loughlin returned from injury to win the Senior Support
race and laid claim to the inaugural “Dario Cecconi” memorial trophy with both
the Junior and Senior Championships already won.
Following the second 600cc race, both Lady Luck and Mother Nature
decided to intervene and a deluge of rain force the club to abandon the meeting
where standing water at the back section proved simply too dangerous to allow
racing to continue.
This meant the feature race; the Carole Nash Grand Final had
to be scrapped.
Many spectators turned up to view the final Road Race of
2017 and we hope that the ECR club can continue to host another meeting in 2018.
Full results and report to follow.
Words and images (c) Andy Quinn
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