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Chasin' The Racin'

#103 Everyday Above Ground [BILLY MCCONNELL]

Chasin' The Racin'

Grace Rouse

Automotive, Leisure, Sports

4.9970 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Delighted to be joined by Billy McConnell, ex British Supersport champion and current pilot for the Rich Energy BMW team in Superstock. 

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0:00.0

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0:09.5

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0:11.0

Proud sponsors of Chasing the Racing.

0:15.0

3-1 and welcome back to Chasing the Racing episode 1-0.

0:20.0

Is it 1-02 or 1-3? I think it's a 1-0-3. 1-0 or three I think we're on and we're delighted to be joined by

0:26.4

Billy McConnell we're down at Mallory Park just down the road from where you live now

0:30.5

in it yeah yeah it's about six mile from me so come down and the weather is

0:34.2

absolutely perfect for your race meeting here I see this weekend do at moments like

0:38.2

this do you miss it do you miss home like I would you must just score this is shite.

0:43.0

Well, yeah, but obviously in the wintertime, normally when I race I can normally do like eight months, nine months here,

0:51.0

and then when I go back to Australia it's just coming into

0:52.9

their summer so it works out perfect but yeah as we sort of touch base on before the

0:57.8

COVID has really messed everything around with that so this is the probably the

1:02.1

third time I've actually stayed for a full winter and

1:05.0

gone through it so I work for Triumph motorcycles as well as a test rider there

1:08.6

so we've been a few years where we had real real busy testing program and then we had some dealer

1:15.1

launchers and the bikes, you know, new releases and the tribes and stuff so we got to go to Morocco

1:21.2

and Spain and do all that. So we've been lucky enough to do that but

1:24.7

then always had to come back to the cold weather and that but sometimes it's nice it's only

1:29.2

when you see on Facebook and stuff your friends and family back home

1:31.6

that all out jet skiing and beer and it's 40 degrees and then over here like I don't people

1:36.2

don't really get it back home.

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