After a successful weekend in the British Supersport Championship at Donington Park on the 26th of May, where Jenny qualified 35th and finished in 30th overall and 9th in the Cup, Jenny ventured into the Thundersport GB Championship last weekend with an entry in the one off 'Ladies Race' and the Thundersport 600 Races - entry courtesy of Mark Brice.
Jenny took pole, set the fastest laps and won both of the Ladies races on her Honda CBR600, but the highlight of the weekend was a win in the 600 races. After finishing third in Saturday's race and third in Sunday's first race Jenny finally stole the win by just 0.048 of a second in the last 600 race of the day setting a personal best lap time of the Brands Indy circuit with a 49.1 sec lap.
Jenny said "It was really great to win the 600 race, I was expecting Gary May (race 1 and 2 winner) to pass me at any moment but I just managed to fend him off to the line, it was really close. I'm really grateful to Mark Brice for paying my entry fee for the weekend's racing as otherwise I wouldn't have been able to go. I'm still desperately looking for sponsorship to keep me going, we're just doing it on a race by race basis at the moment but I'm hoping if I continue to get good results on the 600 and pester people enough, I'll be able to keep going for the season!"
This is Jenny's first season on a 600 after racing in the British 125gp for the last 4 seasons. Jenny said "we only got the bike in April, it was a bit of a struggle to buy it, but I was determined to change class this season. I've wanted to move for a while but just never had enough money to. We still don't have enough this year but are determined to see the season through. My results on the 125 last season have helped and I'm really grateful to Mark Cooper of Hollins Strategic Land for helping me buy the bike and my brother James and his company CS2u for their sponsorship to get me going. We managed to get the bike ready for the third round of the British Supersport championship. I was gutted to miss the first two and due to a lack of time on the bike I didn't manage to get on the grid at Oulton, so we've just been playing catch up. I've been trying to get as much time on the bike as I can to make up for any practice I could have had over the winter and just to get used to riding a 600 four stroke. It's going great, I love the bike and love riding it, I'm getting faster every time I go out. I was chuffed to qualify on the grid at Donington Park for the British Supersport race and to get to race against the factory teams and some of the best riders in the world. Then to win the two Bikesport Ladies races and the last Thundersport 600 race this weekend was great"
All the races from Brands Hatch Thundersport GB can be seen on Motors TV on Sunday the 15th June at 7pm.
For up to date race reports from Jenny herself please visit;
www.jennytinmouth.com
