Dean Thomas

Dean Thomas and his Samsung Suzuki team had a tough bank holiday race day at Cadwell Park securing a fourteenth place finish in race one and a DNF due to a slipping clutch in race two.

Thomas had a difficult weekend all round as he explained, “It was a bit of a struggle really. We’ve struggled all weekend, I mean we qualified in sixteenth, I crashed Sunday morning and wrecked my number one bike and was stuck on my number two bike and we have just really struggled.”

Race one had a spanner in the works from the out set as he went on to say, “In the first race we had a bit of an out-of-round front tyre which gave us even more chatter than we already had so it just hindered us. I got hung up with Simon Andrews when he was trying to move out of the road when his clutch was playing up. They just got away from me and to cut a long story short I finished in fourteenth place. It’s not a fantastic result; it is a result as it is in the points but it is not a great result. We’ll move onto the next race and see what happens.”

With a second bite at the cherry in race two, things went from bad to worse, “That one didn’t go to plan either! It hasn’t been a very good weekend really!” joked Thomas. “I got a good start and got away well, I was sitting on the back of Plater and Haydon and there was a small gap to Smart. I was just hanging on and doing really good lap times, best we had managed all weekend. The bike didn’t feel so bad and then the clutch went, it just started slipping eight laps into the race and that was that.”

He couldn’t believe his bad luck and did his utmost to nurse it home, “I persevered with it for a lap or two just to see whether it would make the distance or not and it wasn’t going to. So I decided to pull in then. As I did people started falling off left, right and centre and carnage hit and that was that,” he concluded.

Thomas is now putting Cadwell firmly behind him and looking to Donington Park in a few weeks time. “I am looking forward to Donington; it should suit us a little bit better. I’m looking forward to the last two rounds to be fair. I think Donington will be better for us and I’m looking forward to it, it will be good to get out and get a result in the last two rounds.”

Round twelve of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship will take place at Donington Park on the 21st – 23rd September.

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