Accident Advice Solicitors supported rider Johnny Blackshaw had a difficult weekend this weekend at the second round of the National Superstock 1000 class at Thruxton Circuit. Struggling to get to grips with his new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R the Newcastle university student was unable to qualify for the scheduled race.

Thruxton is a very fast and technical circuit and is very hard to find a good bike set up early in the weekend. They made a few changes to the bike after the first practice session but these changes could only be tested in the first qualifying session on Friday afternoon. With only a short session he was unable to find a set up that suited his riding style for the extremely bumpy circuit.

Hoping they would be able to make some overnight changes to test in the second qualifying session, this was not to be when the rain came heavily on Saturday and with the bike feeling better it was impossible to go faster than anyone did in the dry and was supposed to compete in the final shoot out race on Saturday afternoon, everything at the track was cancelled in the afternoon due to flooding of the circuit and this saw an end to Johnny's weekend.

Johnny Blackshaw - "This is possibly one of the most depressing race weekends I've ever had during my racing career. I just couldn't get the bike to feel right all of Friday and we all worked really hard on Friday night to get things sorted.

When the rain came on Saturday I knew that was my chance gone, I did get out on the Kawasaki and it felt so much better than it did on the Friday. I was gearing up for the shoot out race but it just wasn't to be as the rain just got heavier and heavier.

I'm really disappointed and once again the lovely UK weather has played it's part. I have to take what positives I can from this weekend and move onto my local round at Oulton Park and I need to feel confident going there. It's a track I really like and I know the Accident Advice team are coming there to cheer me on so I hope I can get a good result for them.

I'd like to thank everyone that has helped and supported me up until now and just really sorry I wasn't able to get out there and get them a result - roll on Oulton!"

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