A Honda RC213V-S enters the Tourist Trophy 2016 !
The Honda Padgetts team will field an RC213V-S at the Tourist Trophy 2016. The MotoGP replica will be entrusted to one of the best riders on the field: Bruce Anstey, 10 times victorious in the TT and winner of the 2015 Superbike TT race on CBR1000RR Fireblade.
Despite his ten victories in, Bruce Anstey is a still unknown road motorcycle racer. Admittedly, the New Zealander is far from the records of the legendary Joey Dunlop (26 successes) or the current "King of the Moutain" (23!), But he has his own….
Last year Bruce set the new "Superbike TT" race record by completing the six laps of the Snaeffel Moutain Course at an average of 207.2 km / h. In doing so, he recorded the new lap record (17’06.682) and especially pocketed his .
Casually, the "Flying Kiwi" is as successful in the Tourist Trophy as a certain Giacomo Agostini, and only one less than his young and impressive comrades and. A remarkable achievement which earned him the order of merit this winter in his country of origin..
In his adopted country – he lives with his partner in Windsor, England -, the recognition of his good and loyal service is reflected this year in another way … but no less estimable: Bruce will compete in the Superbike TT and Senior TT on the handlebars of the prestigious !
"Riding a MotoGP at TT has always been one of my dreams and I could never do better", admits Mister Anstey, overwhelmed by the gift – for his 47th birthday celebrated a month ago! – offered by his team manager, the charismatic Clive Padgett.
"Clive is the only person in the world who could do this kind of thing and if he says he’s ready, then I’m with him 100%." Because according to Bruce, the Honda dealership (Suzuki and Yamaha!) "Didn’t just take the bike out of its crate and decided to run with it".
The Honda Padgetts team (37 podiums in the TT including 11 victories in 39 participations, review it!) Has indeed carefully prepared its racing animal: "we had to adapt the bike to the TT and we had nothing on the shelf, everything had to be custom made ", underlines the big boss:" elements like the wheels, the K-Tech fork, the rear shock absorber, the brakes and the radiator guards all had to be specially manufactured ". Obviously, the English boss spent lavishly. Because when we love…
“I love Bruce like crazy and wanted to give him the best bike in the world!” Says Clive Padgett. Carried by this crazy love, this project – a little crazy too – was nevertheless born from a banal discussion with one of the customers of the dealership….
“I was drinking a few pints of Guinness with a customer who had just bought one of our RCVs when he said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to see one coming down Bray Hill?’ The seed was. sown in my head and it has sprouted ever since, "says Clive Padgett.
However, this commitment goes a little further and the boss of the Padgetts team is convinced that the Tourist Trophy should reconnect with these roots: "this project is carried out in the spirit that Mr. Honda had when he arrived at the TT with his bikes. race in 1959 ". No doubt Soichiro would be touched by this tribute.
While the official Honda team will continue this year to promote the good old Fireblade – driven by John McGuinness and Connor Cummins – the Padgetts team will christen the RC213V-S: the replica of the MotoGP prototype has never raced before. !
Although he has not tried it yet, Bruce Anstey is convinced that his "road racing RCV" will be an "absolute weapon because it develops a lot of power (215 horses with the Racing kit naturally installed, Editor’s note) but seems as compact as a 600 cc ".
Advantageous in winding portions in town, the small size of the Honda should not be a handicap in the long curves and straight lines in the mountains: "it should be stable too, because it is 2 inches longer than a Fireblade" , observe the "Kiwi" of the "TiTi"
Forty years after its exit from the Intercontinental Circus calendar, the Tourist Trophy will find Grand Prix airs again this year … in addition to the scent of 2-stroke GP, since alongside the "MotoGP" of the Padgetts team. ‘will launch it. Yum, yum !
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