Before I knew it race day was here, after the mornings ceremonies and parade laps by some of the pasts greats like Wayne Gardner aboard a factory RC30 the race was about to start. Read more..

The Suzuka 4 hour endurance was the first event of the day ending in a climactic last corner win or bin. After being passed by #88 on the penultimate lap # 6 caught him again and passed him going into the last chicane, 88 was having none of it and tried re passing on the exit. It all went a little pear shaped and they both went down. They both re mounted and 6 got the win. Now we were going to have to race against these crazy Japanese! Read more..

Suzuka Day 1

For some reason the Suzuka officials had stuck us and a few other teams in a hotel and 10 minutes driving from the circuit. All the others would be at one of the luxury hotels on campus this meant we would have to catch a shuttle bus everyday. Leroy knocked us up at 07:50. We caught the shuttle bus to the circuit where we would have breakfast in one of the hotels. Read more..

Monday 23rd July

The weekend before I was due to fly to Japan I took one of my 1943 jeeps to the War & Peace show for a long weekend of far too much drinking and driving around in mud up to your knees. The time to head for Suzuka and one of the biggest races of the races I had dreamt about riding for years was just around the corner. Read more..

Hi everyone here’s a short video put together by one of Maco Moto’s French followers Christian. I had the pleasure of meeting Christian at Le Mans this year. Christian is a hardcore endurance fan, he spent the whole race week with the team, supporting all of us throughout the entire 24 hours of the race.

http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-3931601867119791709

Thanks again Christian for the top video.

All the best demon

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