EPayMe Yamaha’s Stuart Easton walked away from a fast crash at in the opening Thruxton MCE British Superbike race on Sunday and was left with bruising after an engine blow up.

Easton had been slowly working his way up the timesheets on the R1 and was confident of a good result as the Yamaha is very kind to its tyres but it wasn’t to be as he went down and couldn’t make it out for the second race.

“It was another disappointing weekend unfortunately and I was lucky that I am only feeling a bit black and blue today after my fourth gear, off throttle high-side in race one as it was a pretty fast one! It wasn’t anyone’s fault; we just had a mechanical issue with a pipe clip breaking, which is just so unlucky. Unfortunately for me the bike had a lot of damage so it just wasn’t possible to make it out for race two,” said Easton.

“It was a shame really as we knew the ePayMe Yamaha would have the pace over the race distance and would be able to use the tyres better at the end of the race. Even before I crashed I could see some of the guys losing their pace as the tyres were wearing, so it was a shame we couldn’t capitalise really as I think we could have picked up some good points.”

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