Hawk Racing made huge progress this weekend at the fifth round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship as Scott Smart managed to score his best result of the season so far as he took a strong eighth place in the second race at the super fast Snetterton Circuit. The two Superbike riders had a mixed weekend, 20-year-old Peter Hickman gained a 17th place in the first race but slipped off at the Esses in the second race whilst holding a good points position.
31-year-old Scott Smart gained 14th place in the first 22-lap race after suffering front tyre problems throughout the race and fought his way to his first top ten position in the second race and the highest scoring Kawasaki rider of the weekend. Commenting he said “I kept losing the front end in the first race and couldn’t work out what the problem was, we later found out that it was the tyre. I used the same compound in the second race and the bike felt fine. We are finally making progress and hopefully that will continue as we head to Mondello, the circuit where I took my first Superbike win for Hawk in 2004. I feel we are moving in the right direction now and hoping that things will continue moving forward for the rest of the season.”
Hicky commented “I’ve had a bad run of form of late and had more crashes than I’ve ever had in one year. I felt happy in both races and I was running in a fairly high position in the second race when I had a small high-side coming out of the Esses. I’m a bit gutted as I’ve not scored points for a while and I wanted to get things back on track. Hopefully I’ll be able to be back up there at Mondello.”
The two Hawk Junior riders both suffered misfortunes in their respective races. Jak Wright running in the Supersport Cup had a strong qualifying session, qualifying in sixth position in the Cup and 29th on the grid, the 18-year-old got caught up in a second lap crash and was briefly knocked out but was later discharged from the medical centre with no further injuries. David Hallett running in the Metzeler National Superstock Cup qualified in 23rd position, his highest position so far this season and also crashed out of the race on lap 12 of 14 whilst in a points scoring position.
The team are now preparing for Mondello Park on the 17th June.
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