Dead ringers
By TMX Archives on 20th Sep 07
A STAPLE of good old fashioned scrambles back in the old days, the traditional mechanics race', made a welcome return to the British scene at the end of Saturday's final British Championship round on Saturday evening.
With the sun sitting low in the sky, a bumperentry of mechanics, team personnel, and industry big-wigs lined up fora thrash around the Pontrilas circuit in what surely should become anannual event.
Too old, too slow, too fat, too unfit, toountalented, with the exception of the odd ringer - step forward CASHonda's Neil Prince and Twisted 7 Kawasaki's Jeff Perrett - it was easyto see why most of the entrants make their living behind the scenes andnot on the track. Still, the competition between the guys was no lessfierce than that in the full championship and as a wind down to a long,hard season it was top entertainment all round and hard to beat.
Roll on the 2008 race - I think it should be upgraded to half-time entertainment.
For more pictures from Pontrilas see this week's T+MX NEWS.
