Ben Wilson had a steady weekend at the 2.9-mile Snetterton circuit riding for Gearlink Kawasaki on the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R. After a hard fought first race battle with Jack Kennedy and Glen Richards, he had to settle for third place in the opening 10- lapper. Sadly in the second outing, Ben was caught up in an incident, which saw him crashing out of the race from sixth place.

After a few initial set up problems on a circuit that has never been a strong one for the Gearlink Kawasaki team, Ben managed to qualify in a solid fifth place. He gained an awesome start and was leading by the second corner. He was soon locked in a tight battle with Kennedy and Richards and the trio were exchanging places for the first few laps. They soon settled down into a race rhythm on the recently revamped track while Ben encountered some rear grip issues and had to bring the Gearlink Kawasaki home in third for another welcome podium spot.

The second race was just as action packed. Ben once again gained the hole-shot from fourth place on the grid. He had the lead but touched the gravel on the exit to the back straight and lost at least half a second allowing Richards to sneak through. The race became a 12 bike battle and Ben was sat in sixth place when a rider in front of him slowed drastically and Ben plus Luke Jones had nowhere to go forcing the pair of them out of the race.

Ben Wilson - "I'm hugely disappointed with my results this weekend, it was good to get a podium yesterday as we've been struggling all weekend to get the Gearlink Kawasaki set up properly. We made a fair amount of changes to try and get things more settled with the bike. We did struggle here last year and knew we might be on the back foot coming here this season. I couldn't possibly do anything to avoid the crash in race two. I became a sandwich and I just had nowhere to go, I'm gutted. I just hope things will change for the better at Knockhill."

Team Manager/Owner Michael de Bidaph - "Snetterton has always been a track we've struggled to get a good set up on the Gearlink Kawasaki.

Ben, as always, has ridden extremely hard all weekend but was suffering with brake problems in the second race, he just couldn't get the bike stopped and sadly was unable to get a result. I would like to thank all our team sponsors and sorry we couldn't get them a good result. It's been a difficult weekend and we hope to move things forward at the next round.”

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