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International Challenge Race Two | Morris does it again

Trev by Trev
January 26, 2019
in Historic Road Racing, Motorcycle News, Motorcycle Racing
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2019 Island Classic

International Challenge Race Two

Images Rob Mott


Aaron Morris had to battle hard in order to take victory in the opening race earlier today, but that bout also witnessed some attrition which saw both Team Australia and Team USA lose star players from their numbers.

Jason Pridmore suffered a huge highside at turn 11 in race one and Beau Beaton also got caught up in the incident. Both went down hard which saw the red flag produced, so they could be treated immediately on the circuit. They were then sent off to hospital for further investigation and observation, with broken bones seeming a quite likely diagnosis.

Both machines were also heavily damaged, including that work of art that is the Irving Vincent. I enquired with Ken Horner as to the condition of his machine and he replied with, ‘Trev, you could say it is an engineering project’… Which is a nice way of saying, it is pretty well f#$*ed!


Away we go for Race Two!

IIC Phillip Island Rob Mott Saturday Aaron Morris
Island Classic International Challenge Race Two

Josh Hayes got a blinding start for Team America ahead of Jed Metcher. Larry Pegram was also fired up for this one and right there in the mix alongside Aaron Morris and Paul Byrne as the second International Challenge six-lap race got underway at 1510 on Saturday afternoon.

Hayes maintained the lead around the back of the circuit and down the main straight to start lap two there was nothing separating Hayes, Morris, Metcher and Pegram.

Aaron Morris took his turn at the front of that pack early on lap two, going with him was Jed Metcher and once that pair wound up to speed they left Hayes and Pegram in their dust.

In his quest to take the challenge up to Morris though Metcher made a mistake at Lukey Heights and went down at MG.  That left Aaron Morris out in front vritually by himself!

By half race distance Aaron Morris had a four-second lead ahead of the man moving up into second place, and that was a rejuvenated Steve Martin.

Josh Hayes had been pushed back to third place ahead of Paul Byrne and Michael Gilbert.

Larry Pegram rolled to a stop with some sort of problem, a blow for Team USA just as he really looked like he had started to find his groove around the 4.445km Phillip Island Circuit.

2018 had been David Johnson’s year to shine at the Island Classic but 2019 was not running quite as smoothly for the South Australian. Not sure as yet as to what happened to Davoin that one, presumably a mechanic gremlin saw him fail to be a factor in this bout. That will pretty much rule out his chance of backing up his Ken Wootton Perpetual Trophy win from last year for individual honours.

Aaron Morris backed his pace off a little to just maintain the impressive four-second lead for the run towards the chequered flag.

Steve Martin had managed to stretch away from Hayes to a clear second place.

IIC Phillip Island Rob Mott Saturday Steve Martin
Steve Martin

Adding further insult to Hayes was Paul Byrne, the Irishman got the better of the American late in the race and pulled away to make it an all-Australian podium.

IIC Phillip Island Rob Mott Saturday Paul Byrne
Island Classic International Challenge Race Two – Paul Byrne gets away from Josh Hayes

With Sunday’s pair of six-lap bouts still to go, Australia leads the International Challenge by a slender 15-points over USA. The Americans are well and truly in with a chance of causing an upset here tomorrow and perhaps stealing the overall team honours glory for the USA.

On current form, when it comes to individual honours Aaron Morris looks virtually untouchable. As long as that Katana keeps its con-rods inside those GSX Suzuki engine cases that is… One little mistake though will be all it takes for Josh Hayes or Steve Martin to get the better of him, as things are very tight at the top.

International Challenge Race Two Results

  1. Aaron Morris
  2. Steve Martin +4.250
  3. Paul Byrne +6.522
  4. Josh Hayes +12.386
  5. Alex Phillis +18.169
  6. Michael Gilbert +19.390
  7. Steve Rapp +19.663
  8. Dean Oughtred +20.641
  9. John Reynolds +21.154
  10. Mark Miller +22.281
  11. Barrett Long +22.611
  12. Shawn Giles +24.874
  13. Craig Ditchburn +24.914
  14. Scott Webster +29.373
  15. Larry Pegram +35.060
  16. John Allen +35.607
  17. Brendan Wilson +44.578
  18. Rennie Scaysbrook +47.807
  19. Duncan Coutts +48.568
  20. Justin Mellerick +50.464

International Challenge Team Points

  1. Australia 326
  2. USA 311
  3. NZ 253

Ken Wootton Perpetual Trophy Points

  1. Aaron Morris 80
  2. Josh Hayes 75
  3. Steve Martin 73
  4. Alex Phillis 71
  5. Shawn Giles 66
  6. John Reynolds 64
  7. Mark Miller 61
  8. Michael Gilbert 59
  9. Larry Pegram 59
  10. Barrett Long 57
Tags: 2019 Island ClassicAaron MorrisAlex PhillisDean OughtredInternational ChallengeJohn ReynoldsJosh HayesMark MillerMichael GilbertPaul ByrneSteve MartinSteve Rapp
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