Q8Oils has a track record of success in motorcycle racing over the past decade. 

• 2004 - Winners of Rider Championship (with Rizla Suzuki) 
  
• 2005 - Winners of Rider Championship (Gregorio Lavilla/Airwaves Ducati)
  
• 2006 - Winners of Constructors' Championship (Airwaves Ducati)
  
• 2007 - 2nd in the Constructors and 3rd & 4th in the Rider Championship (Airwaves Ducati with Gregorio Lavilla and Leon Haslam)
  
• 2008 - Quay Garage Racing 3rd in British superbike Cup and Ryan Farquhar is crowned 600cc Supersport and Open class champion in Irish road racing.

 2005 to 2007 - 32 race wins, 95 podiums and 18 lap records with Airwaves Ducati.

Motorcycle Race Review 2009 

By the end of the 2009 season Q8Oils supported riders needed to invest in bigger trophy cabinets. Gary Mason on the Quay Garage Honda carried off the Mirror.co.uk Cup in British Superbikes, while Ryan Farquhar broke the all-time Irish record of 119 National road race wins and was declared NGK Enkalon Irish Motorcyclist of the Year. However, it wasn’t all plain sailing ….




Gary Mason opened his title challenge in the Mirror.co.uk Cup in confident form at Brands Hatch in April with a win in both races. The Cup is a championship within the main MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship for independent teams and riders and Devon-based Quay Garage Honda provided Gary with an ex-World Superbike VK Vent AXIA Honda Fireblade, as ridden by Greg Lavilla in 2008. 




Things continued in a similar vein over the following three rounds, with Gary taking six wins, giving him a strong lead in the Cup. However, his winning streak was interrupted when a minor technical fault forced him to retire from Race One at Norfolk’s Snetterton circuit. He went on to win Race Two, but then things took a turn for the worse at Knockhill in Scotland two weeks later. Having qualified four places ahead of the nearest Mirror.co.uk Cup rider, Gary looked set for another victory. However the 1.3 mile long Scottish track is notoriously challenging, with a unique series of twists, turns, drops and climbs, varying by around 200 feet from highest to lowest point. On lap 20 of the first race Gary low-sided while exiting the hairpin. Undeterred, he was back out on the 1000cc Honda in Race Two and managed second place to bring home some valuable points. His mixed fortunes continued in the following round at Mallory Park, where he came home first in Race One but fifth in Race Two, when a freak downpour caused the red flags to come out. As only 16 laps had been completed, half points were awarded, compounding the misery.




Faced with a triple race at Brands Hatch in August both team and rider pulled out all the stops to win all three. Another double victory at Cadwell Park gave Mason a near-unassailable lead in the Cup and a fortnight later at Croft in North Yorks he sealed the deal. 

With two rounds still to go Gary and the team set their sights on a top ten finish in the main Superbike championship. A tumble at Silverstone frustrated his plans and in spite of a strong finish at Oulton Gary narrowly missed his goal of a top 10 in the MCE Insurance British Superbike championship, settling for 12th equal with Glen Richards of HM Plant Honda, just six points adrift of tenth place. His victory in the Cup, meanwhile, was emphatic. With the scores finally counted, Gary Mason won the title with a massive 154.5 point lead over his nearest rival.




On the road racing scene Ryan Farquhar started the season as Ireland’s most successful living road racer, having won 24 national races in 2008 and finishing in the top six in all of the six TT races in which he rode.




Road racing is phenomenally popular in Ireland, both North and South of the border, attracting crowds of up to 50,000 spectators, eager to see their sporting heroes battling it out around the open roads, (which are officially closed to the public for the duration of the event). Competing on Kawasaki machinery in the Superstock (1000cc), Supersport (600cc) and Supertwins (650cc) classes, Ryan carries out all his own maintenance in his home garage. For 2009 the Dungannon man formed his own team, KMR Racing, and had a fantastic start to his season, with a hat trick of wins at Cookstown and two more at Tandragee.  Atrocious weather at the NW200, which attracts factory-supported teams and riders from the UK, denied Farquhar a win and he had to settle for runner-up spot in the Superstock race. Good luck eluded him on the Isle of Man too, where he suffered an oil leak and ran out of fuel during TT fortnight.




However Ryan returned to Ireland in style with four wins at the Bush Road Races - his local meeting. Following that with a hat-trick of victories at the Athea road races in County Limerick, Farquhar became only the second rider to record 100 Irish road race wins.

Back on the Isle of Man for the Southern 100 Ryan banished his bad luck from the TT, taking four wins against stiff local talent, in the form of Conor Cummins, and England’s Guy Martin on the Hydrex Honda. Less than a week later Farquhar won four more races at Kells in Southern Ireland. Having netted a further 11 victories at Faugheen, mid-Antrim and Armoy, Ryan arrived at the Ulster Grand Prix in confident form and left with two more wins and the Man of the Meeting title.

 


Three more road race wins at Killalane brought his tally of Irish National road race wins to 121, breaking the all-time Irish record of 119 set by the legendary Joey Dunlop. However, the Grand Final race very nearly ended in disaster, when Ryan ran wide at one of the corners on the fourth lap and, unable to avoid him, Michael Dunlop ran in to the back of his Kawasaki. Ryan explains the rest; “The rear hugger jammed into the rear wheel and locked it up, snapping it sideways, when in fourth gear. It would have been a major incident but fortunately I managed to bring the bike under control and thanks to the help of a couple of marshals, I was able to get going again."  The lubricants used by both the KMR Kawasaki and Quay Garage Honda teams are blended in Q8Oils' purpose-built plant in Leeds, just like the Q8Oils range of MOTO SBK oils that are available to road riders.   “I’m really happy with their products” comments Ryan, who uses MotoSBK Racing full synthetic. “I don’t have any issues with the bikes using oil and no problems with clutch slip.”

“Last year I did two and a half thousand miles on the superstock bike, and didn't have to have an engine re-build in that time,” he continues. “It proves that Q8Oils provide an excellent product – it’s reliable and the company are excellent to work with”.

For more information on the Q8Oils range of market leading motorcycle lubricants contact: marketing@Q8Oils.com; Tel: 0113 235 0555.

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