It lasted just a few metres the race at Monza for the pair of 675 Triumph – SC ridden by Garry McCoy and Ruggero Scambia: both the riders of the English triples have been throw down in the gravel during the first lap confusion in the first chicane after a quite good start. The morning’s warm up session showed that the situation was increasing in a positive way and just the unbelievable misfortune did prevent a final good result.
Garry McCoy related what happened: “When the red light switched off I got a perfect start and I earned immediately several positions, but at the entrance of the first chicane in front of me they have done a terrible confusion and someone take me away the front wheel, so I crashed in the escape lane. That’s a pity because the team made a great job and during the warm up the bike performed very well, as well I didn’t push too hard. The choice of tyres was good, so everything was going to get a good race, but on the contrary after a few metres I were everything was ended, I could just take up the bike from the gravel and rejoin slowly the pit. Actually a bad day, however we are confident for the future because the improvement we have seen during the morning’s session.”
Ruggero Scambia is deeply disappointed for a debut that, in practice, has not been: “At the start I’ve seen a t push one’s way through the group and I did throw myself inside grabbing immediately a middle group position, then in front of me happened a row, somebody did touch my front wheel and I crashed. Anyway after the warm up I was confident because during the warm up I recorded lap times similar or better as more experienced rider, so I was hoping in a good race if I could get a good start. But my dream vanished at the first corner. However this first race allowed me to accumulate a precious experience that will be useful in the next rounds.”
Supersport – Race (21 laps = 95,655 kms):1 FORET Fabien FRA Yamaha YZF R6 29’38.261 at 187,642 kph
2 BROOKES Joshua AUS Honda CBR 600RR at 1.199
3 PARKES Broc AUS Yamaha YZF R6 at 6.736
4 PITT Andrews AUS Honda CBR 600RR at 11.398
5 HARMS Robbin DEN Honda CBR 600RR at 11.477
Championship Standing: 1st Lascorz (Honda) 77 points
2nd Foret (Yamaha) 71
3rd Parkes (Yamaha) 65
4th Pitt (Honda) 63;
th Brookes (Honda) 63
6th Jones (Honda) 49
7th Rea (Honda) 41
8th Harms (Honda) 39
9th Lagrive (Honda) 28
10th Vizziello (Honda) 26
18th Garry McCoy (Triumph-SC) 10
26th Ilario Dionisi (Triumph-SC) 1
Manufacturer Championship:
1st Honda 115 points
2nd Yamaha 96
3rd Triumph 30
