Solid start for Samsung Superbike team.

The Samsung Superbike and Superstock Team got off to a steady start at Brands Hatch for the opening round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship and the Metzeler National Superstock Championship.

Dean Thomas who is riding the Samsung Suzuki in the Superbike class qualified well in tenth place and proceeded to bring home a sixteenth and tenth in the two races. His team-mate Jon Kirkham who is contesting the Superstock Championship on the all new Ducati 1098 qualified twentieth, unfortunately he failed to finish the race due to a technical fault.

“Race one was a bit of a hard one, we were on the pace at the beginning running with the guys in the middle of the pack, where we feel we should be at this stage,” said Thomas, “After about six or seven laps we just started to chew the tyre up and we had taken a gamble on the soft compound. We just drifted back, mid race the tyre had gone off and that mixed with a slight fuelling issue – the power comes on quite strong and solid making the problem worse.”