Jake Dixon had a difficult weekend in round six of the Motorpoint British Supersport Championship from Thruxton.

He had a few technical issues with the Appleyard Doodson Macadam Yamaha during practice and qualifying but still managed to gain two tenth places finishes in the two races.

Jake was going well in the second free practice until the end of the second practice where a mysterious miss-fire started to happen. The team changed a number of items on the bike overnight but for the wet qualifying on Saturday the youngster was unable to complete a lap and therefore had to start race one from the back of the grid in 29^th position.

The team made more adjustments for race one and Jake was able to get a fantastic start and was 16^th after the opening lap, he dug deep and kept pushing hard to finish in a fantastic 10^th position.

He was placed in 11^th on the grid for race two on Sunday and he was eager to get another good start and get away with the front runners. From half distance Jake was suffering with grip and also handling issues on the bike, he rode as hard as he could be had to take 10^th place and a handful of Championship points.

Speaking after the weekends racing, Jake said: “This weekend was so frustrating for myself and the Appleyard Doodson Macadam team. I was going well in second practice and was sat up in third position for most of it when I started to notice there was a problem when the bike was on its side. They worked hard to change what they thought it was but sadly for qualifying it was worse and now having problems in a straight line.

“I had to start from the back and my mechanics changed more things on the Yamaha between qualifying and the race and luckily for race one it felt good, that race was a little daunting as I was mixing on track with riders I’ve never ridden with on track before so it was difficult to know what was going to happen. I pushed hard on the first few laps and was able to make up several places.

“I knew on the Sunday if I could get away with them I’d have a good chance of another good result. I was pushing hard but from mid race I was really struggling with grip which was most likely down to the lack of track time all weekend to find the set up that suited me best.

“It was disappointing but I need to move to Oulton this weekend focussed again on the job in hand and hopefully get some better results there.”

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