Jack Kennedy and the Mar-Train Yamaha team celebrated their best finish in the Bennetts British Superbike Championship last time out at Brands Hatch with a fourth place in the BikeSocial Sprint race and now the reigning Quattro Group British Supersport champion is targeting more at Thruxton.
Kennedy has celebrated plenty of success at Thruxton in the Supersport class and now together with the Mar-Train Yamaha team, they are bidding to carry the momentum into next weekend’s seventh round at a circuit where the Yamaha was strong last season.
Kennedy said: “The Saturday at Brands Hatch was a great day for me and the team; from making it through Q1 and then the rain came and the team had a big job on to get the wet setting into the bike ready for Q2. We decided we would rather do that and miss a few minutes of the qualifying than go out on a dry setting that was just backed up with about eight minutes to go, so I got about three flying laps in the rain. I managed to qualify fourth and that was great as that was my best outright qualifying in Superbike.
“I didn’t get a great start, dropped back to about eighth or ninth and then managed to pick a few off and get towards the front of the pack. We brought home a fourth place with the red flag, the racer in me always thinks what would have happened if it had gone full distance, could we have stuck it on the box, but that is all ifs and buts. I felt really comfortable in the race and it is not every day you can say you felt comfortable in the wet on a Superbike, so hats off to the Mar-Train team for giving me a great bike and set-up which gave me the confidence to push in those conditions.
“It was great to get mine and the team’s best result in BSB and I suppose we have set the bar quite high with that one again and we have to try and improve now again next time out. I am really looking forward to Thruxton; it is a track I really enjoy. I love any high-speed track and there isn’t anything more high-speed than Thruxton! I have had good success there in the past with Mar-Train and the Yamaha has a great track record for managing the tyre there so we are going into the next round with a very positive and happy outlook on the round. Hopefully we can get some even better results over the three races there.”