Joe Collier - British Supersport Silverstone - Round 1

Joe Collier, racing on the Tsingtao MV Agusta had a troublesome weekend at the opening round of the Dickies British Supersport Championship at Silverstone Circuit this weekend. The opening Sprint race was cancelled due to poor weather conditions and sadly Joe was unfortunate to have a technical problem on the MV Agusta in the second race of the weekend.

 

Joe has been struggling to get to grips with his new bike for this season and has made the switch from the Triumph last year. The reigning Supersport Evo Champion has slowly been making progress with the MV Agusta and his team have been working hard to push things forward.

 

They have made progress throughout the weekend and Joe has always been confident when it comes to race conditions. He pushed hard through qualifying and was scheduled to start race one from 15^th place on the grid. The opening Sprint race never really got off the ground, as they were lining up on the grid the skies became darker.

 

Joe had a steady start to the race but the safety car was deployed on the second lap after some of the leaders crashed out. The car came back in the pits at the end of lap three but the race was soon red flagged due to heavy rainfall. After a mad dash into the pits to change tyres they all lined up on the grid again and the race was re-started. A number of crashes forced the race to be red-flagged again and cancelled due to track contamination.

 

Joe lined up in 12^th position on the grid for race two due to the absence of some injured riders from Saturday. He got a good start and was up to 11^th at the end of lap one but sadly the race was short lived for him when his bike had a technical problem on lap two forcing him out of the race and having to leave Silverstone with no Championship points under his belt.

 

Joe Collier - "I'm so dis-heartened after this weekend at Silverstone. We really were hampered with the weather and track conditions and we did not have as much time out on the track as we had hoped for so we were always a little on the back foot. We missed the session on Friday morning due to oil on the track and then the first race was cancelled due to the weather and the track conditions. It was a shame really as we did make some good progress through the weekend and I was happier with the way things were beginning to go in the right direction.

 

I hope we can maybe get out and have a test before Oulton and try some new things on the bike to try and push things forward. I want two solid results at Oulton, it is one of my favourite tracks and hopefully we can get on the score board there."

 

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