Taz Taylor Racing

It was a fantastic weekend for 17-year-old Taz Taylor from Mansfield at the second round of the HEL Performance Motostar British Championship at the Brands Hatch Indy Circuit. The youngster secured his first ever Motostar race win on Saturday in only his third race riding a Moto3 bike, followed by a very close second during the race on Sunday.

Taz racing for the RS Racing team on a KTM had an awesome practice and qualifying sessions and ended up setting pole position by 0.3. In the first race on Saturday the youngster got a fantastic start for the 15-lap race, he proceeded to totally dominate the race from start to finish taking the win from former Moto3 World Championship rider Scott Deroue by 5.6 seconds.

In race two he started once again from pole position for the 18-lap lap race, he once again was super quick off the line and led into the first turn. He once again was fighting hard and riding a stunning race, Scott Deroue was on a mission during race two and was hounding Taz throughout the race.

On lap eight Taz ran wide which allow Deroue to sneak underneath him, he chased him down for a few laps and re took the lead by lap 11, they swapped places again for another lap before Taz led for the closing laps of the races. The race was full of back markers and both him and Deroue had to ensure they made safe passes on these in the final laps of the race. Taz was pushed wide into turn one on the last lap and this allowed Scott to push his way through, elbow to elbow into turn two the pair were fighting to the end, Scott Deroue finally won the race by only 0.05 from Taz.

Taz Taylor - "It was another great weekend this weekend and the first race was brilliant, to win and by that much was a great feeling. It was a huge credit to everyone that supports and helps me all year and to take my first ever Moto3 win was a great feeling.

The second race I was pushed from start to finish, we both really want it and both pushing hard to get the win. It was good and we pushed each other to ride better, it was tough in the closing laps with the back markers, as there were a lot of them so we had to be careful on which lines we were taking. I was so close to the win but I know it's a long season and I will continue to work as hard as possible to get some strong results.

Thanks again to all my family and all my sponsors, I can't wait to get to Oulton Park now."