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Following on from her brief test session at Mallory Park on Wednesday, Nicole McAleer and her SP125 Racing team noticed that her 125 Honda frame was bent, possibly due to her big off at Donington Park during qualifying. On discovering this problem the teenager was forced to change to a new frame and during the free practice sessions and the first qualifying session struggled with the feel of the new frame. She said; “it doesn’t feel like my bike!”

However after the final qualifying session on Saturday were she was happy enough to qualify in 24th on the grid, as she was feeling much more comfortable with her machinery at this stage and having gone more than a second quicker during the final session, she knew she would be able to improve during the race on Sunday.

After a first corner pile up at Riches which saw four riders go down, including McAleer’s only other female competition Cat Green, the Omagh teenager who along with Taboo Motorsport’s Michael Hill and Astro’s Shaun Winfield, got off to a good start, but the first corner melee, cost them some time. The trio were pushed back down the field, but soon recovered and continued with their own private battle throughout the race, were McAleer and Winfield both got the better of the more experienced Hill, with McAleer taking 19th place overall and 8th in the Cup battle.

McAleer said afterwards; “That was a brilliant race, I had so much fun out there today.” She has now moved up in the Cup battle to 5th place were her SP125 Racing team mate Matt Hoyle still leads despite a DNF at Snetterton.

McAleer’s next race meeting will be at Mallory Park on the 29th June, were it will be a double header, with the cancelled Donington Park round of the Championship being rescheduled to run at Mallory.

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