Mixed weekend marks Maxxis mid-season for ARB Tuning Kawasaki
May 06, 2008
Positively summery weather greeted ARB Tuning Kawasaki on the Early May Bank Holiday for the fourth round of the Maxxis British Motocross Championship at Lyng in Norfolk. This pleasant change after several cold and wet rounds in the championship was welcomed with open arms. Although this round does not feature the MXY2 class, all three team riders were present at the event with youth rider Vytautas Bucas switching to the MX2 class.
Jamie's first race was disastrous as a footpeg snapped in half in the first lap, causing Jamie to crash and restart in last position. From there it was difficult for Jamie to continue at full strength and he had to end where he restarted. The second race was much improved. A top fifteen start saw Jamie start his ascent in the pack, but blisters put an end to his efforts and he had to bite down through the pain to keep his position first in eleventh, and then, with just two laps to go, in tenth. A position just outside the top fifteen was the day's end result.
Mark Bishop, team owner, noted dryly: "We were a bit unlucky this weekend. Vytautas just got nervous in his first qualifier out of the schoolboys. Jamie got done in by blisters just like in Dean Moor, and Mark, after a nice third in the first one, got in a fight with the tyres in the second, and the tyres won."
The team next decamps to Landrake in Cornwall for the third round of the British Masters Motocross series with the fourth round a month later at Pontrilas in Herefordshire. The next round of the Maxxis British Motocross Championship will be at Desertmartin in Northern Ireland on Saturday, June 22.
Image by Stefan Paetow
Vytautas failed to qualify in the MX2 class, suffering from a case of nerves ahead of his first ever MX2 event, less than one second outside thirty-fifth place. Both Jamie Lewis and Mark Jones qualified in the top fifteen in the MX1 class, Jamie in fourteenth and Mark in sixth.
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