Mike
Hailwood™ Kiddimoto launched
Pauline and David Hailwood launch the new Mike
Hailwood™ Kiddimoto children's wooden motorcycle
at the Centenary TT 2007.
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Rain
Stops TT 2007 Ride
The bad weather on the first day’s racing
of this years Isle of Man TT Centenary meeting,
meant that the Lap of Honour had to be postphoned
until Tuesday afternoon.
Pauline Hailwood had been invited to start the
Lap, and representing his father, Dave Hailwood
was to have ridden Mike’s 1978 TT winning
Ducati, prepared by Steve Wynne.
Unfortunately, the new schedule coincided with
Pauline and Dave’s flights leaving the Island.
The organisers tried to change the flights, but
were unable to get them off the Island as everything
was fully booked. There was a suggestion of finding
a private plane to take them back to the mainland,
and re-scheduling their flights back to Spain,
but it all sounded rather expensive and a lot
of trouble for everyone.
So very reluctantly, Pauline and Dave decided
that they would have to keep to their original
flights and miss the Lap of Honour.
Both were very disappointed, but would like to
congratulate and thank the organisers, Paul Phillips
and his team, who had an enormous task in trying
to keep everything going as smoothly as possible,
and also keeping everyone happy. They were very
helpful, did an excellent job, and must surely
be pleased that the event went as well as it did.
Next year is the 30th anniversary of Mike´s
fairytale win in the 1978 TT, so hopefully Pauline
and Dave will be back on the Island again, and
Dave will get his ride.
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