Clarke happy with Silverstone show as he bags two championship points

Kirton racer Aaron Clarke collected two Pirelli National Superstock 600 Championship points after a 14th-place finish at Silverstone over the weekend.

The draperRACING rider coped really well in free practice in the wet conditions, although qualifying was done in the dry on Saturday – resulting in him completing the session in 15th place to bag a place on the fifth row for the start of his race on Sunday morning.

As the ten-lap race got under way, Clarke got away to a good start and held 12th place through the first two laps. But then the rain arrived, so he was a little more cautious to make sure of a finish.

He then became embroiled in a race-long battle for position and was swapping places between 12th and 15th throughout the remaining eight laps.

But Clarke persevered and crossed the finish line in 14th place – just three hundredths of a second ahead of Milo Ward to pick up two championship points.

Clarke said: “Everything was going really well for me but then it started raining I thought it wiser to be a little more cautious than go for it and find myself in the gravel.

“I was mixing it within a large group of riders and although I had a better pace than some I just couldn’t shake them off.

“But I completed the race and picked up some points so have to be happy with that.”

Clarke was also invited to join the back of the Supersport grid for the feature race, but in dreadful conditions his race was over when he slid off at Luffield on lap two.

It will be a quick turnaround for the draperRACING team as they travel to Oulton Park for the next round this weekend (September 15-17).