Hickman Storms To Maiden Macau Win

Nov 21, 2015
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Peter Hickman continued his incredible season with victory at the 49th Macau Grand Prix after a late-race charge saw him clinch the lead and the win from Martin Jessopp on the ninth lap of twelve.

Jessopp got the holeshot at the start and steamed off into the distance, building up an advantage of 1.6 seconds on his Riders Mototcycles BMW S1000RR. Hickman also began to gap the chasing gap, but failed to make much of an impact on the leader until about half distance.

By lap nine the Briggs Equipment BMW rider had demolished Jessopp's lead and executed a clinical pass on the inside of Lisboa. Hickman got the hammer down after that and darted off to take his maiden win at the event on his first attempt after he crashed heavily in last year's event and was unable to race.

Michael Rutter couldn't do much to stick with the top two and ended up a distant third, some fifteen seconds back from the lead. John McGuinness recovered from a bad start, that saw him down in sixth, to finish fourth on the increasingly dated Honda Fireblade.

McGuiness was followed home by Gary Johnson, 2013 Macau winner Ian Hutchinson, Honda team-mate Connor Cummins, Horst Saiger, Lee Johnston and David Johnson.

Last year's winner Stuart Easton was classified 24th after dropping out of the contest with five laps left to run.