As the season draws to a close the Bournemouth Kawasaki boys Luke Stapleford and James Hillier sent us their last race report of this year, please read below:

Oulton Park  September 2010
James Hillier
James Was determined to put things right after 2 crashes at Silverstone in the wet and apart from a high speed crash on Friday which wasnt his fault at all things went really well and James managed to be be 4 th Place on the grid for this triple Race weekend, Race 1 James got a poor start but battled his way up to a group of riders who were 3rd, 4th and 5 th in the Evo Race, James had a fantastic battle and managed to get 4 th in the Race although a photo finish was needed between the 3 riders, Race Two and James Started well and was running in second place behind Evo Champion Steve Brogan untill he tucked the front on the final corner and went down, Race 3 James was in a real battle with Gary Johnson and Australian Chris Seaton for the final podium and James managed to hold them off through to the flag and bring the bike home in a fine 3rd place and take his place on the podium for the last Race of the year and a great way to end the season.

Silverstone September 2010
Luke Stapleford
Luke came to Oulton knowing that his only chance to win the Championship would be to win the Race and he didn’t disappoint in any way. He set about Practice and Qualifying in his usual Professional way and managed to put himself in Second spot on the grid for the last Race of the Year. Luke was just 8 points from Second and 16 points from the series leader Josh Day. He knew he needed to win and have a bit of luck on his side to win the Championship. Luke Rode a fantastic Race and lead almost straight away taking his battle to the series leaders and making them follow, Luke’s pace hotted up near the end and Buchan who needed to finish 3rd to win the Championship made a mistake at Cascades and went on the grass allowing Jimmy Hill to take third in the race which meant Luke jumped Buchan to Second in the Championship, Josh Day finished in 7th place and managed to beat Luke by one single point for the British Superstock Championship of 2010, We must congratulate Both Luke and James on a fantastic 1 st season in the Bournemouth Kawasaki Racing squad.Roll on 2011. A special Thank you EBC Brakes and we look forward to working with you all again in 2011.

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