Strong start to British Championship
Two incredible starts by Marshall take Aprilia RSV4 APRC to top ten!
A huge sun kissed crowd witnessed the first round of the Metzeler National Superstock Championship at Brands Hatch over the Easter weekend.
Prolonged, unusually high temperatures throughout the weekend caused many of the teams and riders some issues and qualifying was quite a testing time for Marshall Neill and GR Aprilia only managing 21st on the grid. The race was to be a different story!
The extremely busy "MCE British Superbike Championship" timetable had the scheduled 24 lap Superstock 1000 race start at 11 am. Starting from 21st Portadown's Marshall Neill had a huge mountain to climb aboard the 2011 Aprilia RSV4 APRC, but as the lights changed Marshall made fantastic use of the Aprilia APRC system launching towards the top ten! At the end of the first lap Marshall had pushed the RSV4 into 11th place and a lap later was in 8th, an incident on the track brought out the pace car for the next 4 laps before a red flag stoppage to help the trackside staff to clear the incident.
The restart was to be over 16 laps with the grid set from lap 2 which gave Marshall and the RSV4 grid 8. Another fantastic start and Marshall brought the GR Aprilia round in 3rd with the leaders. Marshall settled in to a tremendous battle and brought the Aprilia home in a very strong 7th, a brilliant result to say we have only had the bike now for just over a month!
Marshall Neill - "I was really looking forward to the BSB this weekend although Brands is not one of my favourite tracks. We had a few problems in qualifying which did cost me but Brent and the boy's, Danny and Big Willy, did a good job. Help from Simon at Aprilia was great and morning warm up showed we were ready. The wee Aprilia is just fantastic off the line, Brent said he could not watch the first lap but I really enjoyed it. The restart I knew I could repeat the first. I had a great race to bring her home in 7th and now I am off home and looking forward to Oulton."
Tony Robinson - "Marshall and the Aprilia RSV4 APRC have proven to be a good package for the team, we know we more to come from both as the season progresses and we are looking forward to more good results. "
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