McFadden unbeatable at Killarney All-Bike Day

The star of the 2015 All Bike Race Day at Killarney on Saturday was undoubtedly local celebrity and international SuperStock 1000 rider David McFadden, who won both Unlimited Superbike races and the 1-Hour headline event on the Suzuki South GSX-R1000 L5.

McFadden certainly didn’t have it all his own way, with intense competition all the way from local hotshot Trevor Westman and multiple SA Superbike champion Greg Gildenhuys, who shared the Mad Mac’s ZX-10R with Westman for the 1-Hour and rode his own Autohaus Towing S1000RR in the Superbike races.

McFadden, starting the first Unlimited Superbike race from pit lane, was last into Turn 1 while Westman and Gildenhuys banged elbows at the front. He took both Rapson and Westman on lap five, and passed Gildenhuys for the lead on lap six. He was more than five seconds clear at the line, while Gildenhuys just held off a late charge from Westman to take second, with Rapson a distant fourth.

Westman and Gildenhuys tried again in the second outing, leading for two laps until McFadden went on to win unchallenged by nearly six seconds from Westman. Gildenhuys was a distant third.

The first Breakfast Run race was interrupted after three laps when Sebastian Solomons (Suzuki GSX-R750) took a monumental tumble in Turn 4. After the restart the race became an elbow-to-elbow duel all the way between track-day specialist Romano di Leva (BMW S1000 RR) and Dominique Arlove on a Suzuki GSX-R1000, resulting in the closest finish of the day as Di Leva crossed the line just 0.1sec ahead.

However, the stewards imposed a 30-second penalty on Di Leva for jumping the start, knocking him down to sixth and handing the race to Arlove.

The BMW rider made no mistakes in Race 2, taking the lead from his rival on lap three and holding it to the flag to come home 1.2sec ahead, with Donald Romer third on a Yamaha after an epic five-way battle.