AS we all know the Italians love a holiday so we don’t get to race in August and then end up with four races quite close together after that. Never mind at least I had a holiday and all our staff also had at least a week of so we will come back refreshed at Nurburgring. This has given me the opportunity to see what is happening in BSB and take more notice of misguided articles and I see my old mate Gary Pinchin has been at it again in MCN. For the last few years, including this year, he publishes an article on Rob Mac racing telling us this is going to be the year he will mop up. Even Gary must be coming to the conclusion now that he might just need to leave that out of next year’s features. There have been more musical chairs in Rob’s team this year than you will ever see at any children’s party and still no results. At the TT we split with Wilson Craig Racing as most of you may be aware. There were many reasons but most of all it was because Wilson did not pay his agreed bills so I pulled the pin. At the time Cameron Donald and William Dunlop were right on the pace. Cameron had won 10 out of 10 races over Easter and only lost out in the NW200 Supersport race (the only race run due to weather etc) to the superior riding skills of Alistair Seeley. At the TT Cameron did get a fortunate second after a lot of the leading riders dropped out in the opening race of the week and MCN’s Gary Pinchin went on to say how Wilson Craig Racing showed how they can do it alone. In the next week’s MCN I did not see any mention of how out of four starts on the 600’s they managed 3 DNF’s and in the case of one of William’s races did not make the line, so did not even bother to start!!! After that they had mediocre results for the rest of the week in the races they did actually manage to finish. OK after that they won some of the local Irish road races but come the big day again at the Ulster Grand Prix it was no wins once again. In the 600 races they even managed to lose to Michael Dunlop on a far inferior machine. With all this in mind it was with great interest that Gary followed the TT story up with how Wilson Craig has gone from strength to strength since we split. It’s more like going from strength to shooting themselves in the foot overnight. I wish he would ask them just how many engines they have managed to break since we stopped helping them – it’s a lot – and no wins either at any of the races. Engines built to the same spec as ours by Chris Mehew and run by amateurs. I am angry about this one-sided piece of reporting but I suppose when you look at his Rob Mac fairy tales it is about par for the course. I have been friends with Gary for years and won’t fall out with him over this, I just wanted to bring the truth to his attention. Congratulations to Wilson for the results they have achieved in the smaller races, I suppose he had to do them even though he told me he wouldn’t – he must want to get some results…maybe if he wins enough prize money he may pay us what we are owed by him. Lastly I just have to mention the Brands Hatch BSB round on the long track. Except on the first day which was held on the short track due I am told to noise restrictions. Is it just me or do the majority of you wonder what was going on there? They might as well all have stopped off at Mallory Park on the way down as they do not have a BSB race this year and held the day there. The long track and the short track only have three corners in common and even then that will not be totally relevant if you run the correct gearing for the short and long circuit. In these hard times as far as I can see that was the best advert for making BSB into two-day meetings as I have ever seen – and remember they got an extra Superbike race in on Saturday due to the cancelled race at Oulton Pk when it was flooded out. Stuart Higgs and Jonathan Palmer have done a great job but that certainly was not their best idea ever.