SR OFF-ROAD APRILIA THREE SISTERS CLEAN SWEEP
Sam Warren and the SR Off-Road Aprilia team made the most of
their first competitive outing in the UK by winning all three A-Group
races at the Three Sisters NORA Sport round on Easter Monday.
Up
against many of the top British riders the Wigan event proved to be a
good test for the Aprilia SXV and Derbyshire rider Warren.
Warren
crashed finding the limit of his SXV mid-way through the morning
qualifying ending any opportunity for him to improve on the fifth
quickest time he had set at that point. Starting from the second row of
the grid though proved to be no barrier as he won the first two A-Group
races and the final in convincing fashion.
He said it was a
relief to get the first race win on the board and with further
improvements to the set-up of the Aprilia it got stronger as the day
progressed.
“The development of the Aprilia is in its very
early stages but already I can tell it’s a much better package out of
the box than any other bike I’ve ridden before. We have a substantial
amount of set-up adjustment so it’s going to be a case of fine-tuning
it to my liking.
I really wanted to start the year on the right
note with a win. Once I had that sorted I felt a lot more relaxed and I
was able to set consecutively quicker fastest laps in each race.”
Team
boss Mick Spencer and his team have been working around the clock since
getting their hands on the first of the Aprilia’s to land in the
country just four weeks earlier.
“Being an all-new bike we are
in many respects starting from scratch. It’s a race against time for us
but it is clear that even at this early stage the Aprilia SXV has the
potential to be a real contender both in the British and World
Supermoto Championships.
We ran our new WDS Suspension for the
first time today which we now are making very good progress with and
tested the new Dunlop control tyres that we are using in the World
Championship which Sam said are awesome.
Our to-do list is
still quite long but each day we get a little closer to having
everything sorted. We are very upbeat about this season.”
The
next major outing for the SR Off-Road Aprilia team is the Dunlop Grand
Prix of Europe in two weeks which is the first round of the World
Supermoto Championship in Italy.
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