Samsung Crescent Racing Jon Kirkham finished 8-11 to lift himself to eighth in the championship after five rounds.
After wet practice and qualifying, today's races were held in dry conditions, so there was a degree of relearning the track for Hopkins. Nonetheless he learned quickly and while being unable to challenge for the win in race one he was able to defend his second place position when under sustained attack in the closing stages. Jon Kirkham finished eighth.
The second outing proved a major disappointment for Hopkins when a rear tyre issue compromised his race from the very start and even
tually led to him crashing out on lap seven. Unwittingly his team-mate Kirkham was brought down in the melee but was able to remount and battle back to 11th place.
Jon Kirkham: "I'm disappointed because I wanted to achieve much more this weekend. We had a brake problem in warm up this morning which meant I didn't...
Jon Kirkham will start from the second row in P5, having himself narrowly missed joining Hopkins on the front row.
Jon Kirkham: "That was a fraught qualifier. I rode Q1 on wets, setting seventh fastest early on but came in as it dried, looking to change tyres, then saw my time plummeting down the table as others took advantage of the drying track. With a red flag incident...
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