Rider: John Mcguiness

Location: Victory lane - Senior TT - 8th June 2007

Camera: Canon EOS 1D mk - 70-200mm

Comments: McG arms aloft receives rapturous applause from the fans lining the access lane. Undoubtedly John is THE fans favorite now, you can relate to him,he's down to earth he's one of them, drinking in the beer tent post race, signing autograph after autograph and posing for just another pic.
So another win, another history making outright lap record, simply put no one can touch him on a Superbike around the Island.

Rider: John Mcguiness

Location: Bottom Barregarrow - Senior Race - June 8th 2007

Camera: Canon EOS 1D mk - 70-200mm

Comments: The magic 130mph lap pictured for posterity. (actually 130.354mph)
As John reflected later "Bob Mac did the 100 in '57 and John Mac did the 130 in 2007".

Rider: John Mcguiness

Location: Podium - Senior TT - 8th June 2007

Camera: Canon EOS 1D mk - 300mm

Comments: Some teammate Ian Hutchinson is, finished in 3rd but whipped Mcguiness in the champagne race.
This was direct revenge for John shoving an ice cream cornett in his face just 5 minutes before, this shot really illustrates the genuine camaraderie most of the riders have with each other at the TT.

Rider: Guy Martin

Location: Kirk Michael - Superbike Race - 4th June 2007

Camera: Canon EOS 1D mk2 - 70-200mm

Comments: Flat out through the narrow road that runs through Kirk Michael.
Another one of them full on TT experiences of noise, speed and wind blast that nothing can prepare you for as the bikes go from kerb to kerb literally inches away.

Rider: Steve Norberry / Scott Parnell

Location: Black Dub - Sidecar Race A - 4th June 2007

Camera: Canon EOS 1D mk2 - 70-200mm

Comments: I last photographed from this point in 1992, since then a bush sprouted next to the air fence that just grew and grew refusing to die making a repeat visit impossible.
I resisted the urge to chop it down one dark night but someone else did the honours (cheers).
At one point during the race there was a mother duck with a family of tiny yellow chicks in the river foreground, only the TT....

Rider: Conor Cummins

Location: Greeba Castle - Tuesday practice - 29th May 2007

Camera: Canon EOS 1D mk2 - 70 - 200mm

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Rider: Bruce Anstey

Location: Milntown - Superstock Race - 5th June 2007

Camera: Canon EOS 1Dmk2 - 600mm

Comments: For the third year in a row Kiwi Bruce Anstey had something to smile about when he blew the opposition into the gutter with a faultless display in the Superstock TT.

You would have to be a gambling man to have bet on the result of the PokerStars Junior Supersport race, it promised to be the closest race of the week.
It was Bruce Anstey who set the pace on the opening two laps breaking the lap record on both to become the first 600 rider to lap at over 125mph, only 4.5 seconds behind was Mcguiness who had Ian Hutchinson 7 seconds adrift, the pitstops would prove crucial.
Ansteys Suzuki refused to start and it took almost the full length of pitlane before it fired into life, such was the red hot pace that the damage was done as the TAS pit crew gathered their breath any chance of two wins in two days choked.
As the Honda's of Hutchinson and Mcguiness shrieked past the Grandstand to begin the fourth and final lap only 5 seconds was the gap.
Softly spoken Hutchinson clung on to his first ever TT win, leading by only 2.8 seconds from Mcguiness, Guy Martin and Anstey who all broke the lap record on the final lap.

The Sidecar Race B had drama before the off when Dave Molyneux looked a retirement with electrical gremlins, then in a bizarre stroke of good fortune a stray dog held up the start by 15 minutes, enough time for Dave to rectify the fault on the line.
Again Nick Crowe and Dan Sayle passed Molyneux and Rick Long on the opening lap to lead by 38 seconds.
They also broke Molys 2005 lap record on lap two by 6.25 seconds, an amazing speed of 116.66 mph and so the scene was set for a famous victory to make up for Mondays Race A failure, but only minutes later on the flat out run towards Ballacraine the engine broke, it was cruel luck after a brilliant display.
Its not the way Moly would have wanted to win his 13th TT but he has had his share of bad luck over the years, Rick Long is also now the most successful passenger in TT history with 8 TT wins.

The Senior TT was to bring the curtain down on a record breaking week, John Mcguiness finally broke the much heralded 130mph barrier, hammering around the second lap in 130.35 mph. No one else would challenge, and he comfortably controlled the race from the front to seal his 13th TT win.
Time for another statue to join Eric on Morecambe prom?

Sobering news was announced shortly after the Senior had finished, on the last lap of the last race of this magical Centenary meeting, TT newcomer Marc Ramsbotham along with 2 spectators were all killed in a tragic end to what had been a relatively safe TT fortnight.

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