Jason O'Halloran secured one of his best results of the season so far at round seven of the Fuchs Silkolene British Supersport Championship at Snetterton Circuit, Sunday 18th July. O'Halloran gained a very strong sixth place finish after enduring a fraught 20-lap battle on the East Coast Racing Yamaha.

Jason has been working hard all weekend to find a good set up for the ultra fast Snetterton circuit and after the team made a few changes they found some settings that would produce consistent lap times over the race distance. The qualifying session was disrupted yesterday after alterations had to be made to the track; Jason was unable to match the pace of the pole sitter in qualifying and ended the session in 12th place 1.1 off pole.

After a few overnight alterations Jason was very content after morning warm up and confident of a strong result if he could get a good start. As the lights changed the young Australian flew off the line and was sitting in ninth place at the end of the opening lap. By lap four he had moved up to seventh and was soon locked into a manic battle with fellow Australians Billy McConnell and Glen Richards for fifth place. Every lap Jason and Billy were changing places and fighting hard for the place. Finally by lap 17 of 20 Jason made the pass on McConnell for sixth position and held it to the chequered flag.

Commenting he said "I'm really pleased with the result today and thoroughly enjoyed the race and the battles I was involved in. I managed to get a great start and pass a few into the first corner then also down the back straight. I knew if I could get away with them I could run with them as I'd managed to do consistent lap times all weekend and knew I could push the same pace in the race. Billy and I got a bit locked up with each other which allowed Glen to come through on us. Billy and I were dicing every lap and it was a good little battle, I'm so pleased I'm starting to get the results again and just hope this will now continue for the rest of the year after a couple of tough months. I'd like to thank Spider and GP James for all the work they did this weekend and hope I will be able to repay them with some stronger results at the remaining rounds."

Jason's East Coast Racing team mate Pat McDougall finished a strong second place in the British Supersport Cup Championship and is still leading the Cup Championship by nine points. Pat battled hard over the weekend the salvage some good points for his Championship campaign. Speaking with him he said "This isn't my favourite circuit and knew a good result here would be vital in order to remain in contention with winning the series. It was a hard weekend and a tough race, I got a pretty bad started and got nudged out wide into the first corner, which left me with a lot of work to do. I fought hard but just want to get to Brands now and see how we get on there."

Team Manager Phil Reed is pleased with the progress the riders have made saying "The team have now come together nicely and everything is running smoothly and in the direction that we want it to. Both Jason and Pat rode a very good race and the results showed that. The East Coast Racing team hope to keep making steps forward and continue getting strong results for the rest of the season. Pat is in with a good shout of winning the British Supersport Cup Championship and Jason is settling into riding the Yamaha exceptionally well and the result proved that today. We are looking forward to getting to Brands Hatch in a couple of week's time."

2010 Calendar

Round 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