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PostPosted: 16:05 - 10 Mar 2021    Post subject: Road racer Scott Wilson Reply with quote

I was just passing some time reading and watching vids about the TT and I came across this chap called Scott Wilson.

https://www.iomtt.com/tt-database/events/races?meet_code=ALL&ride_id=8538

Fourth and fifth placed finishes in the Manx Grand Prix, eight top 30 finishes in the IOMTT, but then each of his last five races at the TT have been DNF. That seems to me like it would be an unusually bad record to have five DNFs in a row, and he then seems to have retired from racing.

I don't know the guy, just wondered if anyone knows whether the DNFs were crashes, mechanical etc. Basically, what's the story? Anyone know?

Or maybe that is in fact a pretty normal record, in which case ignore me.
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PostPosted: 16:34 - 10 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

The TT is hard, the lap is long and it's hard on bikes. DNF's are usually mechanical. It doesn't seem like a weird record, especially if you've you get a new mechanic or team who aren't as good at the preparation.
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PostPosted: 16:45 - 10 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarJay wrote:
The TT is hard, the lap is long and it's hard on bikes. DNF's are usually mechanical. It doesn't seem like a weird record, especially if you've you get a new mechanic or team who aren't as good at the preparation.


Fair enough. At least one of them was for a crash though, the 2015 Superbike, where Michael Dunlop came off in the same incident. And the run stretches over four years, having not had a DNF in any of his previous sixteen races on the circuit. Seems strange to me, but tbf I hadn't appreciated until today that about a third of rider either don't make the start line or retire during an average TT race.
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PostPosted: 14:13 - 19 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe his missus has put her foot down and told him enough is enough?
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