Dean Thomas

Dean Thomas aboard his Samsung Suzuki Superbike had a suitable result at round six of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Mondello Park in Ireland. He qualified in 16th place and finished race one in 14th and race two in 13th.

“It’s not been too bad, not quite to plan, we were hoping to run top ten which I feel we are capable of but I just got held up in the first one,” he explained, “By the time I got a rhythm and got through I couldn’t get to where I wanted to be. The times weren’t too bad for where we wanted to be, I’m back in the points but not far enough up the list for my liking.”

Mondello is not usually Thomas’ favourite circuit but he admitted it is now starting to grow on him. “I actually quite enjoyed riding here on this bike which is a first. We just didn’t have enough time we did hope that the base setting that we ran would move us forward, but we made a change for the first race to the second race and it made things ten times worse. I think we may have stumbled onto something using the softer map,” he said.

He feels the way forward is to reduce horse power as he went on to say, “We don’t run traction control but nearly everyone else does so maybe we have learned something, maybe we need to know more horse power out of it and see how we go. A thirteenth and a fourteenth it will do I suppose. We’ll just move onto Knockhill and see what we can do.”

Unlike Mondello he enjoys racing at Knockhill, “I do like riding round Knockhill, it can be a messy track at times, and it’s aggressive like Mallory. That said I do enjoy it so fingers crossed the weather will be one or the other and not in between. I’m quietly confident that we have found something and I think it will make a big difference. We will do some home work and see how we go.”

Round seven of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship takes place at Knockhill in Scotland on the 29th and 30th June and race day on 1st July.

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