Phillip Island Preview

jeudi 28 février 2008

Yamaha factory rider Broc Parkes may have inherited the win from team-mate Foret but he had to fight for it on the last lap and the Aussie will be going for more of the same in front of his home crowd. Garry McCoy looked promising on the debuting Triumph-SC machine  in the early laps, before to be forced to retire for technical troubles and the team, as well so far from its workshop, is working hard to get their new Triumph 675 machine up to the reliability level.

The Phillip Island circuit is one of the most spectacular tracks on the racing calendar. Situated on the picturesque Phillip Island, a couple of hours drive south of Melbourne, it offers a superb mix of fast and slow corners, which blend together to produce a very high average lap speed. It measures 4.445 km and has a total of 12 corners, 7 left- and 5 right-handers. Turn 11 is one of the corners that makes all the difference, the long fast left-hander allowing riders to lay the bike into the corner while still hard on the throttle and head for the line at over 300 km/h for a sprint finish.

TV broadcast time schedule supplied by FG Sport (GMT time)

Eurosport (Pan European)

01 Mar 00,30 Superpole delayed

02 Mar 08,00 Superbike Race-2 delayed

 

British Eurosport (UK)

01 Mar 08,00 Superpole delayed

            17,00 Superpole repeat

            22,30 Superpole repeat

02 Mar 01,00 Superbike Race-1 live

            02,00 Supersport live

            04,30 Superbike Race-2 live

           17,15 Highlights delayed

           20,45 Highlights delayed

03 Mar 08,00 Highlights delayed

            09,15 Highlights delayed