MSS Colchester Kawasaki rider, Danny Buchan, made his racing intentions for 2011 plain last weekend by claiming the Cadwell lap record for Superstock machines on his Ninja ZX-10R.
Riding in two rounds of the BEMSEE MRO Powerbike series at the famous Lincolnshire circuit on Saturday and Sunday, the 17 year old from Basildon was soon completely at home on the 1000cc Superstock machine he will campaign at British Superbike events this year. Claiming a provisional lap record during practice, Buchan's time put him over 2.5 seconds ahead of the second place man on the grid.
Although a record time around the 2.17 mile circuit was not at the forefront of his mind on Sunday, Buchan made light work of the previous 1m30sec record lapping confidently in under a minute and a half in the second race posting a best time of 1min29.94sec to claim the lap record and a win as strong as his victory in the previous Powerbike round on the Saturday.
In fact, such was his dominance on the new Ninja, the fledgling Superstock rider ended race two with lap times nearly four seconds faster than the second placed rider and was truly in a league of his own well ahead of MCN's Michael Neeves, a distant fifth on his fully race prepared Superstock machine.
Feeling as fresh and unfazed at the end of the event as he obviously was on the starting grid each time he lined up, Buchan is confident there is more to come from both him and his Ninja machine.
"This thing is a racing weapon", said the graduate of Kawasaki's own Team Green tarmac racing initiative. "To already be on this sort of pace with so much more left in terms of mods and adjustments is mega. I am enjoying every minute of it".
Equally pleased at the news was Racing Coordinator for Kawasaki Motors UK, Ross Burridge, saying:
"This is a real line in the sand in terms of performance; and so early in the racing year too. We knew the ZX-10R was going to be a great road and track package and the numbers of riders switching to Kawasaki Ninja power is a vindication of that. Danny is learning all the time in terms of race craft, but one thing that has to be instinctive is speed and he's certainly proved he's got plenty of that!"
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Riding in two rounds of the BEMSEE MRO Powerbike series at the famous Lincolnshire circuit on Saturday and Sunday, the 17 year old from Basildon was soon completely at home on the 1000cc Superstock machine he will campaign at British Superbike events this year. Claiming a provisional lap record during practice, Buchan's time put him over 2.5 seconds ahead of the second place man on the grid.
Although a record time around the 2.17 mile circuit was not at the forefront of his mind on Sunday, Buchan made light work of the previous 1m30sec record lapping confidently in under a minute and a half in the second race posting a best time of 1min29.94sec to claim the lap record and a win as strong as his victory in the previous Powerbike round on the Saturday.
In fact, such was his dominance on the new Ninja, the fledgling Superstock rider ended race two with lap times nearly four seconds faster than the second placed rider and was truly in a league of his own well ahead of MCN's Michael Neeves, a distant fifth on his fully race prepared Superstock machine.
Feeling as fresh and unfazed at the end of the event as he obviously was on the starting grid each time he lined up, Buchan is confident there is more to come from both him and his Ninja machine.
"This thing is a racing weapon", said the graduate of Kawasaki's own Team Green tarmac racing initiative. "To already be on this sort of pace with so much more left in terms of mods and adjustments is mega. I am enjoying every minute of it".
Equally pleased at the news was Racing Coordinator for Kawasaki Motors UK, Ross Burridge, saying:
"This is a real line in the sand in terms of performance; and so early in the racing year too. We knew the ZX-10R was going to be a great road and track package and the numbers of riders switching to Kawasaki Ninja power is a vindication of that. Danny is learning all the time in terms of race craft, but one thing that has to be instinctive is speed and he's certainly proved he's got plenty of that!"
See more pictures and add your own comments on the Kawasaki News UK Facebook site.
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