Brookes Talks Road Racing in MCR Column

Tyco Suzuki has a regular column in Motorcycle Racer Magazine. Below is an extract from next month’s column written by Tyco Suzuki BSB rider and ‘newbie’ to pure road racing, Josh Brookes

“One of the main questions I seem to answer regularly is, when did I decide to do the TT, and what surprises most people, is that it isn’t something I’ve only considered in the last twelve months. My preparation to ride the TT started years ago.

Back in 2009 when I first went there, I immediately thought to myself, ‘I’m going to do this race some day’. I started learning straight away and borrowed a bike and rode round and maybe did five laps that week.

Then over the next few years, 2010, 2011 and even last year, I pretty much did the same thing, and I’ve also added laps in cars and done other stuff to get up to speed. All in all I’ve probably done twenty-five or thirty laps on a motorcycle and must be pushing around 65 or 70 laps in a car. Not forgetting the parade laps I’ve been involved in.

I think I’ve done pretty well with the preparation that way, but the problem is you start to get stale driving round in a car and just can’t take any more in. I really need to get out there on my Tyco Suzuki race bike now and that’s when the next stage of learning will start to come…”

Read the rest of Brookesy’s column in the next issue of Motorcycle Racer Magazine issue #163 – available from www.motorcycleracer.com