It was a very quick turnaround for Kells and after a disastrous Southern 100 there was a lot of work to do, fortunately it was only a reed broke on the 250 Honda and not the expected seizure so it was fixed, but the Strangford Holiday Park Suzuki needed a change of engine after a gearbox failure and so the CSC Branson Supersock R1 Yamaha was loaded up to allow Davy to ride in Open Races.

Arriving at the paddock really late on Friday due to problems from Southern and we just about got a spot to park right at the bottom of the paddock. It was then a bit of scrounging as the steering damper had broke on the CSC Branson R1 at the TT and there is no way you could ride Kells without one so thanks to Brian McCormack and Ryan Farquhar who lent us the parts needed to get us on track.

Practice didn't start particularly well with a dissappointing 14th place in the Open Class session with Davy just not happy on the R1 over the jumps. Next was the 250cc Junior Session and this went much better, claiming his first Pole of the season about 1/4 second ahead of the in-form William Dunlop. Finally it was the CSC Branson R6 and in a really competitive field Davy qualified 10th only 1.4 seconds off second and on the first row of the second group with Archibald and Walsh.

Rain greeted the riders on Sunday morning and the organisers managed to get three races run, before conditions worsened and they had no choice other than to abandon the meeting iwthou Davy getting a wheel turned so it was a case of packing up and heading home on a disappointing weekend.

Davy commented, "Its been a bad weekend for our sport and i don't have much to say other than offering my condolences to the family and friends of Stephen Larkin who died after an accident in practice."

pic : Eoghan Tolan

pic : Eoghan Tolan