My Dad sponsors Yamaha SuperSport rider Sam
Warren and he won the first race of the season over the bank holiday weekend.
My Dad asked me to write a report for Sam’s website but he received an official
Press Release so mine was unfortunately not used. Here it is anyway. Enjoy.
VICTORY AT BRANDS
The start of the 2012 season could not have
gone any better for Sam as he came out victorious from the first meet of the
season at Brands Hatch.
After recording the fastest time in
Practice by over half a second, he went on to Qualify 4th with a
time of 43.317 for the meetings 2 races. After finishing second in the Sprint
race behind fellow Yamaha rider Jack Kennedy, Sam came up with the goods in the
feature race to take the win and the 25 Points.
After a small rain shower before the start
of the race the riders had to take their chances on which tyre would perform
best, Sam and the Seton Tuning team opted to go for an Intermediate rear, where
others around him went for wet and dry tyres. With Ben Wilson out in front in
the early goings Sam outbreaked Christian Iddon going into the Paddock Hill
bend to take second position. With the gap to the front standing at 1.8 seconds
Sam did not waste any time in catching the bright green Kawasaki as he was on
the back of Wilson within three laps.
With Sam applying the pressure Wilson was
made to pay for his earlier charge as his tyres could not get the grip he
needed. On the exit of Clearways Sam took his opportunity to take the lead. He
did not let up from there though and continued to bang in good lap times.
On lap 11 after Luke Jones had lost the
front at the same time as another accident somewhere else on the track the Red
Flag was waved and Sam took the win by almost a second and a half ahead of Ben
Wilson.
The long Easter weekend started out brilliantly
for Sam as he posted a lap time of 46.8 seconds in Free Practice with his final
lap of the session showing that he had not missed a beat since his brilliant
Podium in the Final Round at Brands last year.
In the qualifying session only 2 tenths
separated the top 5 as they all vied for the first pole of the season. Billy
McConnell took it with a 47.176 with Sam in 4th 0.14 seconds back of
the Triumph.
The Sprint race on Sunday was won by Jack
Kennedy on the Mar Train Yamaha and only 0.708 seconds behind him was the
number 70 of Sam who was having a bank holiday weekend to remember. It would
get better though on a miserable Easter Monday when Sam would leave Kent top of
the 2012 Motopoint British Supersport Championship Protected by Datatag
standings with 35 points ahead of Jack Kennedy (22.5), Ben Wilson (20) and
Christian Iddon (19.5).
After a brilliant start to the 2012 season
Sam will be looking to carry it on next weekend at Thruxton.
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