Steve Parrish
EX-RACER & TEAM MANAGER
RACE INSIDER
Ihave to start this month with Leon Haslam, and how unlucky he was in that final BSB weekend at Brands Hatch. I went down there and watched it start to unravel with his first race, which wasn’t disastrous, but it set the tone. I spoke to Leon after the second race and apparently the tyre spun on the rim so he had horrendous vibration from lap one, which is why he could only finish tenth, or whatever it was.
And then that last race, I was convinced Leon was going to be in front of Shane Byrne no matter what happened, being the fighter that he is. I was so looking forward to that one, it was one of those scripted races that whomever went over the line first, would be champion. But his brakes failed and he had that hideous accident. Leon reckons that at first he had pressure and then it just failed, which is peculiar as it’s a loose banjo or similar and has been put back into Brembo’s hands to find out what happened.