It was a very tough weekend for the MAP Centurion Triumph team at round two of the Fuchs-Silkolene British Supersport Championship at Thruxton Circuit. Dan Cooper failed to make the race after an electrical problem occurred and AJ Venter fought through a difficult weekend to gain 14th position in the 18-lap race.
The pair worked hard throughout the weekend to find a suitable set up at the ultra fast and super bumpy Thruxton circuit. Working around problems and altering set up the two Supersport riders still encountered issues. Dan Cooper was unfortunate in the second qualifying and suffered a clutch problem which forced him to miss the entire session and putting him in a low 18th place on the grid. Whilst AJ Venter was finding it hard to get to grips with the track and had some problems with the suspension and shock set up, this eventually put him in 16th place on the grid.
Cooper managed to make the sighting lap but then suffered with a starter motor failure on the grid before the start of the warm up lap, which forced him out of the race before it even started. AJ got a reasonable start but only managed to gain one position at the end of the opening lap and despite his efforts to make progress through the field could only manage to get 14th at the end of the race.
Cooper commented "I'm totally gutted about this weekend it just didn't seem to want to work in my favour. It seems to be a track that I've never gelled with and for some reason that bad luck continued this weekend. I went out of pit lane fine for the sighting lap and then when it came to the warm up lap it wouldn't go, just gutted. I hope things will be back to normal at Oulton and that I can get some good points there."
AJ said "It's not been a great weekend for me, I could not get the suspension right in any session and I just felt like I was riding on a pogo stick. We tried so much to try and work round it and make it better but nothing seemed to click and gel and I just can't wait to get away from here and to Oulton in a few weeks. It's definitely been a tough one for the team and we all just need to put this one behind us and move forwards with the rest of the season."
2010 Calendar
Round 3 Oulton Park 1st - 2nd - 3rd May Round 4 Cadwell Park 21st - 22nd - 23rd MayRound 5 Mallory Park 25th - 26th - 27th JuneRound 6 Knockhill 2nd - 3rd - 4th JulyRound 7 Snetterton 16th - 17th - 18th JulyRound 8 Brands Hatch GP 6th - 7th - 8th AugustRound 9 Cadwell Park 28th - 29th - 30th AugustRound 10 Croft 10th - 11th - 12th SeptemberRound 11 Silverstone 24th - 25th - 26th SeptemberRound 12 Oulton Park 8th - 9th - 10th October
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