Tom Booth-Amos bags a brace at Snetterton
Snetterton was a weekend to remember for the region’s British Superbike riders as they made the podium or posted their best results.
Records tumbled as Tom Booth-Amos claimed a double win to climb back up to second in the British Motostar Championships.
The Newport star stormed to pole position for race one with a breathtaking display, smashing the lap record by 0.8 seconds, which was 1.3 seconds ahead of Team City Lifting team-mate and title rival Jake Archer.
The 21-year-old narrowly pipped Archer – who again broke the lap record – to the win the opening 10-lap race by just 0.126 seconds, but 30 seconds ahead of the rest.
Sunday saw Booth-Amos clinch a second victory as the dominant duo crossed the line more than 40 seconds ahead of third place.
Archer had led the first six laps and looked confident until Booth-Amos passed him on lap seven and then controlled the race, taking the chequered flag by two second.
Archer sits top on 165 points, 15 points ahead of his rival.
Broseley’s Ross Turner, 13, also made the most of a hectic weekend to claim a sixth and record fifth-place finish in the British Motostar standard class, which moved him into eighth in the championship table.
Dad Simon said: “He finished fifth in race one but then suffered with a few clutch problems in race two but he’s constantly improving, bit by bit.
“Ross was posting 128mph on the straights and people are beginning to see his talent.”
Bridgnorth-based Michael Rutter started from third place on the grid in the National Superstock 1000cc Championships but lost his place off the line to Chrissy Rouse.
By lap three he had lost another spot to a flying Mason Law but by the 14th the 45-year-old had caught and passed Rouse and, on the final lap, went passed Richard Cooper to cross the line in third.
The result keeps him third in the championship table.
Louis Dawson, 21, from Highley, also enjoyed double podium success in the Ducati TriOptions, winning his class on the 899 Ducati in both races.
By the penultimate lap, Dawson had made his move and passed Skinner who later fell to allow Dawson to ease home as the winner.
Dawson also romped home in the second after it was stopped at three-quarter race distance due to blown engine.
