Rider: Shaun Harris - Ryan Farquhar

Location: - Tuesday practice - 1st June 2004

Camera: Canon EOS 1D - 600mm

Comments: Very fast left hander on the Mountain climb, you can see the rubber being left as the top guys slide the rear.
Unlike the Flag Man Rupert in the background, I bottled it after 6 bikes.

Rider: Adrian Archibald

Location: Kirk Michael - Senior TT - 11th June 2004

Camera: Canon EOS 1D - 600mm

Comments: Back wheel hoping under heavy braking.

Rider: Bruce Anstey

Location: Crosby - Production 600 TT - 11th June 2004

Camera: Canon EOS 1D - 600mm

Comments: Might not look it, but this is flat stick 150mph.

Rider: Chris Palmer

Location:Keppel Gate - pm practice - 5th June 2004

Camera: Canon EOS 1D - 600mm

Comments: The last winner of a 125 TT but done in fine style with lap and race records.

2 strokes RIP, we shall miss em.

Rider: John Mcguiness

Location:Governors Bridge - Formula 1 TT -5th June 2004

Camera: Canon EOS 1D - 600mm

Comments: John rode a faultless race, breaking the outright lap record from a standing start.
The fastest man all week, could have chalked up 4 or even 5 wins but for mechanical trouble.

 

 

 

Rider: Martin Finnegan

Location: Sulby Bridge - Production 1000 TT - 8th June 2004

Camera: Canon EOS 1D - 600mm

Comments:That man Finnegan again, to be honest I could do a whole gallery on Martin alone.

Rider: Bruce Anstey

Location: Cronk y Voddy - Saturday Practice pm - 29th May 2004

Camera: Canon EOS 1D - 600mm

Comments:

The TT had to have a good year for 2004 after the events 12 months previous.
There were still 3 racing fatalities, which cast an all too familiar shadow over the event.
The racing itself was quite superb, John Mcguiness returned with a last minute Yamaha deal, and no one saw which way he went.
Wednesday evening saw him slicing 0.3 seconds off the outright lap record at 127.34mph before cocking a leg over his Junior R6 mount and trimming 5 seconds off the previous years best of 122.92mph.
John did the famous No 3 plate proud come Formula 1 Race day.
From a standing start He screamed the R1 round at 127.68 mph beating the late David Jefferies outright lap record officially this time by some 3.2 seconds.
Unable to offer any response, the TAS Suzuki's of Adrian Archibald and Bruce Anstey finished in that order at the flag.
Mcguiness claimed a second win of the week in the 400 lightweight TT and produced an exceptional display in the Junior to break the 600 lap record on his first 2 laps, settling in to win by over 17 seconds from Anstey and another race record.
Only the 1000 Production TT had eluded the Morecambe rider and the talk was could he make it four or even a record five wins in one week?

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