CLASSIC RACER ONTRACK
Dominic Herbertson racked up a brace of wins on the Davies Motorsport Yamaha TX500 in the return of the popular Pre-TT Classic at Billown in the south of the Isle of Man.
For good measure, the Hexham lumberjack completed a hat-trick in the Blackford Financial Services-sponsored three-day meeting by also winning the 350cc Junior race. It was the first time that the 1973/1974 air-cooled Yamaha twin had been used in anger on a public roads course. Teammate Mike Hose was not so fortunate with his TX500, but he made light work of the opening Singles race on Lee Gourley’s 350cc Bultaco.
He cleared off from the word go and was almost 30 seconds ahead of Bill Swallow’s Seeley AJS after three laps, half-distance.
At the close the winning margin was 49.8s at an average speed of 84.68mph. “The Bultaco is simply brilliant,” said Hose after racking up his 19th Pre-TT win since 1993.
Huddersfield veteran Swallow admitted the Spanish two-stroke was embarrassingly quick. “Mike cleared off right from the start, there was no living with him!
