Marker lines gets the better of Piranha

 

Simon Andrews and Piranha Racing were in action for the first time at the weekend contesting round one of the British Supersports Championship on the factory backed Yamaha R6.

Saturdays qualifying was exciting with Simon Andrews holding fifth position for most of the session and slipping to ninth by less than one tenth of a second. Although there has not been very much testing on the new Yamaha R6 confidence was high for the race. The weather was typically undecided with light rain at times in the wind which made the track at time quite greasy. Simon made a good start and settled down into the race pattern when on lap three pushing hard the front wheel lost grip on the marker line into Surtees and the front washed out with Simon going down. “I’m really disappointed and it was my fault, I should have pulled the bike down tighter to miss the marker lines. The R6 was working superbly and the Dunlop’s had just reached their optimum rate. Brands Indy is a really short track and I was looking forward to a tight race” Team manager Andy Colbourne made the point “The sign of a good team is how it deals with problems as well as its success In racing there is always some problems or situation to be addressed, we are a very close team that will producing the results in the not too distant future”.