The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Kime Racing riders Tom Fisher and Broderick Whitmore-Wilson were at Silverstone for the opening round of the 2022 No Limits Pirelli Super Series 600 Championship.
Fisher recorded a brace of podium finishes and a fourth place while Whitmore-Wilson took two top ten finishes and a 13th place last weekend.
It was the first meeting of the new campaign for the team, which is based at Wrangle, which is the headquarters of transport company George H Kime & Co Ltd which has branches throughout the county.
Sporting brand new Yamaha R6 machines straight out the box, Fisher completed his qualifying in third place and Whitmore-Wilson in ninth with both eager to get their season underway.
Fisher lined-up on the front row for the start of race one and, as the lights went out, he settled into sixth place on the first lap.
He passed Andy Smart on lap two to take up fifth place where he remained until lap eight of 14 when he passed Finley Arscott.
On the final lap he got the better of James Alderson and beat him to the finish line with an advantage of 0.1secs to pick up third place and 16 championship points.
Starting race two the following day from the front row once again, Fisher held third place for a couple of laps but was unable to maintain it and completed the race in fourth place.
The final race of the weekend was red flagged and restarted to run a shortened distance of nine laps.
Fisher held fourth place for the first four laps before passing Arscott on lap five.
He maintained third place to pick up his second podium finish of the weekend and another 16 points bringing his total haul to 45 from the weekend which place him fourth in the rider standings.
Meanwhile, Whitmore-Wilson ended his qualifying in 17th place and started race one from the eighth row.
As the race unfolded he made good progress and worked his way forward eventually crossing the finish line for a credible ninth place which gave him a much better grid position for the second race.
But race two didn’t go quite to plan and he found himself down in 13th place towards the end of the 12th lap.
He was unable to make any progress forward and had to settle for 13th and three championship points at the flag.
Starting the final race from the fifth row, Whitmore-Wilson had worked his way forward to 11th when the red flag halted the race.
At the restart he had it all to do again but got his head down and picked off the riders ahead crossing the finish line for tenth place and five championship points which brought his total to 15 and placed him tenth in the rider standings.
Fisher said: “Considering the bikes had not turned a wheel before the weekend we did ok.
“We needed some harder springs for the rear shock but wasn’t able to source them in time so we just went with what we had.”
