Ryan Farquhar was on the pace in Tuesday's opening practice sessions for the 2008 North West 200 on the Q8Oils lubricated McAdoo Kawasaki race bikes. Despite some minor set-up issues, Ryan ended the evening third, sixth and seventh fastest in the Supersport 600, Superbike and Superstock 1000 classes respectively.
Out first on the new 2008 ZX-10R Kawasaki Superbike, Ryan went straight to the top of the timesheets during the opening laps of practice. He felt that the bike was really powerful and recorded the fastest speed trap time of the evening at 195.1mph with the on-board GPS system. Ryan lost a bit of track time trying to perfect the rear suspension but still ended the session a promising sixth fastest average speed of 118.702mph.
McAdoo's Supersport 600cc ZX-6R Kawasaki was also on the pace, ending the session in third position, just 0.071 seconds off the pole time! The evening ended with a couple of laps on the Kawasaki ZX-10R Superstock bike, on which Ryan recorded seventh fastest time at 116.020mph.
This is an extremely encouraging opening session for the McAdoo Kawasaki Racing team in the three classes that they are contesting and with a few little set-up adjustments there is more potential for improvement on Thursday.
BBC Northern Ireland will be covering the event on television and radio, as well as streaming every race live on race day, Saturday 17th May, via the dedicated event website,
www.bbc.co.uk/nw200 For more information on the Q8Oils range of market leading motorcycle lubricants used by the team please contact:
marketing@Q8Oils.com. Tel: 0
113 2350555
Photo Credit: Alan Armstrong) Ryan on the ZX-10R Superbike
