Race One: Oriol Oliver ran away with the win but Tommy Searle passed his teammate Billy Askew on the line as the chequered flag waved after closing down a five seconds gap and Searle said it was a lesson for his young talented teammate to learn from!
Searle said: “I was f*****, he was knackered, it’s who wants it most, it’s a lesson to him, a big lesson. Because Billy is a great rider and has everything, skill, fitness…but a little thing like that, I think it shows the difference. I think that will wake him up, and, although it’s nice to beat him, its his future. I have no reason to beat him and he has every reason to be in second. He is riding amazing, how technical he is on the bike, he’s fit, he’s strong, but in races like that he needs that little bit of race craft and it will come.”
Race Two:
Oriol Oliver dominated race two again as Billy Askew learnt his lesson after he passed Tommy Searle for second then pulled a gap and this time didn’t let the 36 year old catch him!
Askew said: “I shouldn’t be dropping my pace like that in the race, I learnt my lesson. I kept a good gap between me and Oriol and gave the smoke to Tommy but fair play to him, he is 36 and I should be beating him, I shouldn’t be over the moon beating him it should be quite normal.”
Searle said: “Bill passed me, showed me the way, I couldn’t get back to him. I tried. I was like, this would be so funny to do him again! Not for him, I think it would have broke him for the rest of the year, so it’s probably a good move that he did put the effort in and stay in front. I had nothing left in the tank, I did feel 36 about four laps into that race! But I’m happy, good for Bill, good for me.”
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