The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Sammy Coventry was the rider of the day in the G&S Racing Kawasaki team as he scored the first points of the new season for the team at Brands Hatch in Monday’s Superstock 1000 race when he finished in 15th place.
He was 18th in Sunday’s 50 mile race while Tom Fisher registered 25th and 24th in the two races and Ben Luxton was unlucky to crash in the Superstock 600 event.
Starting the 50 mile race on Sunday from an eighth row grid position, Coventry didn’t get the best of starts and found himself down in 27th place at the end of the first lap.
But he began his recovery and picked off riders on each lap until he made it up to 18th place on lap 25.
He began to rein in the rider ahead, who had an advantage of three seconds over him. But, although he shaved over a second from his time on the next lap, the race was brought to an early end when rain began to fall and a result was declared on positions at 27 laps which gave him an 18th place finish.
In the shorter 24 lap race on Monday, Coventry was slow to get away but he once again set about making up places picking off riders on every lap until he reached 17th place on lap 16.
He was some way behind the next rider but began to reel him in and on lap 19 passed both Matej Smrz and Branden Elliott to take up 15th position and pick up his first championship point for G&S Racing Kawasaki.
Meanwhile, Fisher was struggling with the electronics on his Kawasaki and started the 50 mile race from the ninth row. He made steady progress through to 25th when the race was stopped and was placed on the tenth row for Monday’s second race.
He got away to a good start and was 27th on lap one before moving up to 26th one lap later. He continued his forward moves to secure 24th position by the flag.
In the Stock 600 class, Luxton began his race from the sixth row and became embroiled in a battle for position within a large group of riders. He had broken into the top 10 and was battling with
Ryan Vickers for eighth place. But he hit the bump at Druids Hairpin on lap 15 and slid unhurt from his machine.
The team will be at the official BSB test at Oulton Park today (Thursday) and are hoping to iron out a few niggles and find a good set up in preparation for the next round – which is at Oulton over the May Day Bank holiday weekend of April 29/May 1.
