Biblical rain soaked Haggis - Raceways Yamaha

Fuchs Silkolene 2008 Super Sport

Once again the team ventured north to the Scottish Knockhill track to be greeted with heavy rain showers causing a fair few incidents throughout the weekend. This always seems to cause the team extra work prepping the bikes to compete in various conditions which on the back of an extremely hectic month for everyone involved with the Raceways.

Practice went reasonably well considering many riders slipped off during the weekend, both Hudson and Ronan stayed on board to qualify ninth and Ronan thirtieth through extremely tough conditions.
Both riders were comfortable with their positions and ensured better results to come on race day, the team have been working ever so hard with KTech the suspension specialists with the front forks and rear shock and it looks like the strenuous graft is about to pay off.

Sunday race day promised mixed weather conditions that were going to play a major part in proceeding, having been declared a dry race all teams sat on the grid with slick tyres fitted.
Hudson got a good start from the fourth row and battled with Lowry, Richards, Westmorland and Kennedy for the opening laps. Ronan also got the start he was after and seemingly enjoying every minute around Knockhill carving through the field from his thirtieth position. Hudson managed to fight back to move up to fifth position neck and neck with pole sitter Kennedy when the red flags came out on lap twenty two due to heavy rain finalising the result Hudson fifth. Ronan had an immensely rewarding result to finish eightieth from thirtieth on the grid; I managed to catch up with Ronan afterwards where he was delighted to have taken eightieth and thanked the team for the long hours recently, but couldn’t help feeling had the race run through he could have moved further up the rankings as he was fastest through many sectors.

National Superstock 1000 - Knockhill
Jon’s weekend looked set to be another repeat performance having scorched around Knockhill at record setting pace, to claim another pole position on Saturday during dry conditions with of course Steve Brogan sat behind him on the timing sheets.

From the start Steve Brogan set off at a blistering pace to secure the lead and managed to open a small gap from Martin Buckles and third place sitter Jon in the early laps. A small mistake from Buckles saw him crash his Kawasaki exiting Butcher on lap five moving Jon into second position.

It did seem the impossible for Jon to make ground up on Steve but Jon got his head down and strung some fantastic laps together to start to close the gap. Steve’s Pit board had obviously indicated Jon was in pursuit and closing rapid, because Brogan responded again to stretch the gap again.

Jon crossed the line in second position and seemed happy enough with the result as many riders fell due to the tough conditions. With Cadwell a few weeks away the team are already prepping the bikes for the amazing Lincolnshire circuit, look forward in seeing you there.