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Centurion Racing Riders James Westmoreland and Dan Cooper suffered some minor set backs at Silverstone this weekend and were unable to produce the quality results that have been seen from them at the opening two rounds of the British Supersport Championship. Despite this, Westy still finished in the points in 13th position with Cooper finishing the tough 18-lap race in 21st after suffering tyre problems in the later stages of the race.

It was an action packed weekend with the Centurion Team with Westy missing the majority of the second qualifying session after suffering an engine problem. He still managed to qualify in 11th position on the grid with Cooper not far behind in 16th.

Westy was locked in a six-way scrap for 10th place, one including Irish Racer Jack Kennedy who went on to break Centurions 14 race win record in the Cup race. Westy still secured second place in the Cup race and a couple of strong points in the main Championship table.

Commenting Westy said ‚ “Unfortunately the day hasn’t been such a success. We had a few problems during the weekend, and I’m not going to make up excuses to why we didn’t have the pace come race day, it just didn’t happen. It s a great shame because the boys worked so hard all weekend and I take my hat off to them, but we must re focus and head to Oulton. It s a good track for me, Silverstone is in the past, and I’m ready to go already. This year is a learning season and we must not forgot that. ‚

Current British 125 Champion Dan Cooper from Stroud worked hard throughout the weekend to improve on his times and his positions. Still adapting to the powerful Honda 600 machine Cooper is making impressive progress in the ultra competitive Supersport class and running with some very experienced names.

Speaking with him ‚ “After the result that I got at Thruxton I was really looking forward to getting to Silverstone and carry on getting good results but it just didn t happen. Although I improved on my times throughout the weekend I suffered really badly on the last six laps in the race with grip and I just had to try and bring the bike home in the best position that I could. I m looking forward to Oulton now which is this weekend and hoping to be back in the points again. ‚

Team Manager Gary Stubbington said ‚ “It was just one of those weekends this weekend, we had a number of minor issues that just seemed to keep adding up. The boys still rode really well and they shouldn t be discouraged by the results they got. Considering the circumstances they both still performed very well. Hopefully Oulton will prove to be a better one for us all. ‚

The next British Supersport race is at Oulton Park, a full timetable can be found on the link below: -

 http://www.mcrcb-events.co.uk/gallery/OULTON%20PARK%201%20FINAL.pdf

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