Red Bull Pro National running an event alongside the MotoGP

The big time this weekend at Silverstone was The Red Bull Pro National running an event alongside the MotoGP.The meeting was run on a new purpose built track next to the Vale section of the road race track over three days. The track was very hard pack and slick after the Friday practice but after some light rain on the Friday night the track was looking much better on Saturday for the first of the main races.

Alex took a while to get some good laps together in the qualifying session, after getting frustrated with the tracks which seemed to hinder him at first he finally clocked his best lap of the session right at the end finishing in 10th place.

As always Snow shot out of the gate in the first race ending the first lap in 3rd position before getting demoted another place by Brad Anderson on lap 2. Alex then settled in behind the leading pack of Ben Lamay, Anderson and Stephen sword were he found himself running a nice pace but then disaster struck as Alex stalled the bike in a tight rutted corner and tipped over. He managed to quickly remount finishing the moto as the 6th mx1 rider.

For Saturday night’s race, the riders would then have to race under a Supercross style format with a heat race, LCQ and main event. Alex Started the night off well with a 6th place in the 5 lap heat race transferring straight in to the main race. As they took off for the start of the 8 lap final Alex suffered a bad start getting boxed in at turn one, then hitting further trouble and a collision on lap one. Alex had to race back through the pack but could only reach a disappointing 11th place before running out of time in the short sprint race.

As the weekend wore on the rides then had day 3 of racing with moto 3 of the weekend being first thing Sunday morning. Alex had a few adjustments made to the bike over night to help with the starts and that proved to be a good move as Alex held down 2nd out of the gate. After a slight mid race dip Snow rode hard to secure another 6th place and some more valuable points.

After a nearly 6 hour break which gave the riders chance to watch the MotoGP it was time to get back to the start for the final race of the weekend. Snow again got a great start coming around in 3rd place were hr raced for several laps. Then a small incident with Carl Nunn dropped Alex sown the order to 5th were he kept the pressure on James Noble for 4th all the way to the finish.

Alex ended the weekend 6th overall and now lies 7th in the championship just 2 points adrift of Gorden Crockard in 6th. Alex’s next race is round 5 of the Red Bull Pro Nationals at Whitby this weekend 27th June.