On a dry set-up in a dry race Katsuaki Fujiwara and his latest team-mate Chris Martin each scored points, making Donington a successful event in the end up for each Ninja ZX-6R rider.
With wet sessions appearing throughout the weekend to that point, even in morning warm-up, the team had to estimate when choosing their dry settings. Despite this each rider was able to fight hard in the early laps, even with an imperfect set-up.
Each rider in green was in the peculiar position of starting the race hoping it would be wet, as they had both shown good mastery of such conditions.
Martin had been as high as eighth in the race, before being forced back by increasing chatter.
Katsuaki Fujiwara: “We got some points, so we are happy in a way. We didn’t have the chance to try any dry settings, so that made it hard for us, but we made some progress. We had chatter in the dry, especially in the high-speed corners, and that held us back a bit. But we always try our best and never stop fighting for points.”
Chris Martin:“We went into the race with no dry settings but the team did a good job. We had a few little problems with chatter but we got home and we got points, which was the aim. It was just a shame that we couldn’t stay further up but as the chatter carried on I couldn’t stay in the top ten. I think the team and I are both happy, considering we had no chance to test in the dry.”
