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Wilson Racing results brighten a damp Donington

05/10/202005/10/2020 By admin Comment Closed

Despite the poor weather conditions at the British Talent Cup event at Donington Park last weekend, the Moto3 rookies of James Cook and Ryan Hitchcock came through with some great results. In the first race of the weekend Cook finished in a strong sixth position which he followed up with an eighth in race two on the Sunday. As Hitchcock gained confidence in the wet of race one he crossed the line in tenth. Sunday saw him improve further to cross the line in seventh. Qualifying Due to the inclement weather the usual qualifying session held on Saturday morning was cancelled. The race organisers took the best lap times from the two Friday free practice sessions to set up the grid for race one. In the cloudy but dry morning free practice James Cook had registered the seventh fastest lap time whilst teammate Ryan Hitchcock was 11th. The forecast bad weather had already arrived by FP2 meaning the riders were unable to improve their...

3 top-ten finishes for Wilson Racing

09/08/202009/08/2020 By admin Comment Closed

James Cook and Ryan Hitchcock took three top ten finishes between them at Donington Park, for the Dronfield Moto3 racing team. The Honda British Talent Cup finally got underway at Donington Park last weekend. Wilson Racing has always been a team to provide an environment in which to develop young motorcycle racing talent. This year’s line up of three riders would all like to go on and emulate previous team members like Max Cook and Scott Ogden who have gone through Wilson Racing and on to Moto3 Junior World Championship, just one stop below World level. Qualifying James Cook was the fastest of the three new riders clocking 1:20.409 to qualify 9th for race one. Team mate Ryan Hitchcock clocked the 12th best time. Both riders were promoted one grid spot after an infringement from another rider. The number 57 Josh Hiatt would start 22nd on the grid. Race One On Saturday afternoon, it was Josh Hiatt who made the biggest impact on the opening...

Wilson Racing wildcard in NEC Moto3 at Donington Park

30/05/201730/05/2017 By adminNo Comments

Wilson Racing’s Max Cook was back on track at Donington last weekend, as he and Wilson Racing took part as a wildcard in the ADAC North European Moto3 standard class Championship. The ADAC NEC is a similar championship to the British Superbike Moto3 support series that Max Cook is currently dominating. Whilst there were a few familiar faces also wildcarding in the event most of the riders were unknown to the team. 14-year-old Cook was racing against Dirk Geiger who races for Keifer Racing in the ADAC series and like Cook has won all his races this year. His team-mate Toni Erhard is also very competitive as is Simon Jespersen a Danish rider who also won a race in the European Talent Cup in Albacete earlier in 2017. On Friday Cook was suffering some sickness but did well to qualify 12th on the combined GP and standard class grid and third overall for the standard class. In the first race on Saturday Cook made...

Cook scores maximum points for Wilson Racing at BSB opener

03/04/201703/04/2017 By adminNo Comments

Gary Wilson from Dronfield and his Moto3 racing team took part in round one of the Hel Performance Motostar British standard class Championship at Donington Park last weekend. With all the riders in the class racing similar Moto3 machines the category is very competitive. Free practice started well for Max Cook as he ended the day at the top of the timesheets with a lap time of 1:42.483. Charlie Atkins posted the seventh quickest time and Tom Alexander improved his lap time over the two sessions by more than 1º.5 seconds. Qualification proved to be one of highs and lows for the team. Max Cook continued his superb form registering the fastest time in the standard class. In fact his lap time was good enough to place him in the middle of row two in the combined GP and standard class starting grid. Charlie Atkins on the other hand only managed four laps before a small mistake saw him fall at the Melbourne...