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Monday, 16th October 2006

Garry McCoy and the Ilmor SRT MotoGP team made history in Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix when they scored the first ever world championship point for an 800cc machine.

"Firstly I'm happy we finished to be honest, it was a real shame about the electrical issue but I am very pleased about the point," added Ilmor owner Mario Illien. "Garry put in a consistent performance and I want to say congratulations to the whole team, they have done a fantastic job this weekend. We have a long way to go but we are learning the whole time. We have some testing time before Valencia so hopefully we'll be in better shape in two weeks time!"

"It's good to finish but the race definitely didn't go as planned," underlined Eskil Suter, of SRT. "The most important thing is that we finished and we scored a point. I'm disappointed that we had the electrical problems but we will work hard over the next few days with testing and let's see what we can do in Valencia. I want to say thank you to the whole crew and Garry for their efforts, they have performed really well."

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