Had Adam Girard gone just 0.01sec. faster at Saturday’s Vazon Sprint, he would have tied his own outright motorcycles record, then any quicker than that would have left him celebrating another boundary-pushing performance for the quarter-mile coast road dash.
But fate had other ideas and that otherwise excellent 9.44sec. run on his BMW S1000RR had left him wanting, having missed out so narrowly in his only shot this year at that mark from September 2024.
‘It would have been nice to have broken the record,’ he said after a day where he had struggled with starts but done 9.52 or faster on four occasions.
‘You do not get conditions like this very often – it’s just one of those things.’
Staged with favourable, decently strong north-easterly winds and gorgeous sunshine, the event finished with two class records and a few others having near-misses of their own.
Dave Bichard edged down his own record to 12.38 in the Modified Specialist Production Cars 1,401 to 1,800 class.
Russ Goubert, meanwhile, came out top of a thrilling Supermoto 351 to 500 class where the record changed hands three times during the day.
Brother Ben Goubert had opened with a 12.44, shaving 0.07sec. off Leigh Digard’s mark in the relatively new class, then 20-year-old Casey Mackrell managed a 12.40 on the fourth run only for Russ to produce a clutch 12.35 at the sixth time of asking.
‘I’m really happy,’ Russ said after entering the class record books for the first time.
‘I was behind most of the day and then I got it on the last run.’
Empire Evo driver Tim Tulie suffered a comparable fate to the top motorcyclist, putting down a 10.52 to miss out by a hundredth on matching Jersey driver Barry Eloie’s Racing Cars 1,101 to 1,600 record.
Given that the Guernsey Kart and Motor Club event now runs only once a year, owing to lower entries making it financially unviable to do so more often, hopes will be high that the stars realign in 2027.
‘Hopefully get a tailwind next year,’ Girard added.
n Full report to follow.
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