SMT Racing’s Adam Jenkinson claimed his second National Superstock 1000cc Championship win of the season on Sunday when he took a superb win at the World Superbike Championship meeting at Donington Park. With pole position and fastest lap of the race, it extended his lead in the table to 21 points and wrapped up a faultless weekend for the 28-year old.
 
With adverse conditions on Friday affecting free practice and opening qualifying, Adam and the team wisely stayed out of trouble and waited for the good, dry weather on Saturday to push for a good grid position. This they duly did and a lap of 1m32.919s on the Kawasaki ZX-10R gave him a strong pole position.
 
An excellent start to the 12-lap race saw Adam grab the holeshot going into Redgate Corner and although Joe Burns and Steve Brogan overhauled him shortly afterwards, he sat right in their wheel tracks. By mid-race distance Burns was in the lead but, after exchanging places with Brogan a couple of times, Adam moved up to second and closed the gap to the race leader. With the fastest lap of the race, 1m32.406s, Adam took the lead on the eighth lap and was never headed again, crossing the line almost half a second clear of Burns for a brilliant win.
 
Speaking afterwards, a delighted team owner Robin Croft said; “I can’t praise Adam highly enough for what he’s achieved this weekend and it really was a faultless performance throughout. He used his head in the poor practice conditions but pushed hard in qualifying and with our brake issues from Oulton Park resolved, we were all feeling very confident going into the race. It wasn’t easy with both Burns and Brogan riding well but Adam was again very mature pushing hard when he needed to and a series of fast, consistent laps made the difference and allowed him to control the race in the final stages. It’s been a superb start to the year so we’re all eagerly looking forward to the next round at Knockhill.”
 
Before that though, SMT Racing turn their attention to the Isle of Man TT road races with Dan Stewart contesting the solo races and Tim Reeves/Dan Sayle the Formula Two sidecar category. Practice takes place all of this week with the opening races on Saturday 1st June.
 
Picture by Glynne Lewis.