YATE’S Luke Hedger continued his racing campaign last weekend at Knockhill in Scotland.
Hedger had another very good time which started on Friday in the first free practice session.
The two races have resulted in Hedger moving to ninth in the Super Sport championship.
This was the first time Hedger has raced the Super Sport bike at Knockhill but, by the end of the session, he was only 15th fastest for the lap with a time of 51.3sec.
Free practice session two was much better an after debriefing with his mechanic he made a few changes and he went much faster, clocking 50.7sec which put him ninth fastest.
After a very stormy night, the officials were presented with a very tricky situation.
The circuit had been damaged, finding a very large pothole on the track and everything was postponed until they could fix the problem.
Once sorted, the Super Sport session was three hours late as riders went out for a 30 minute qualifying session.
Hedger went fractionally quicker than the day before but could only put him self in ninth place for race one. Hedger got off to a very good start and by the end of lap one in the first race had moved up to sixth for the middle part of the race.
He found himself in a battle with fellow competitor Rispoli fighting for fifth place but he dropped off towards the end of the race.
He finished the race in a very respectable sixth place and went half a second faster than in qualifying .
Hedger returned 24 hours later where he started sixth on the grid. Just before the start, a small shower forcing achange of tyres.
But Hedger came across a problem as his front brake master cylinder had a crack and it was a panic to try to get it sort before the race.
With a minute to go, the problem was fixed but Hedger had missed the warm up lap and had to start from the pit lane.
It was a very tough task from last place and had 23 racers in front of him. But by lap three he had already taken five of them.
He kept a cool head and continued to pass a few more riders.
By midway through the race, he had pulled his way up to 12th place, and, when the safety car was deployed on the next lap, Hedger was bunched with everyone else.
As the the race got back under way Hedger was involved in a five-bike battle for eighth place.
With two laps to go, he had passed all five but didn’t have enough laps to catch the seventh place competitor so had to settle for eighth.
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