BROMSGROVE Moto3 racer Jake Clark was competing last weekend in the seventh round of the Hel Performance Motostar British standard class Championship.

Riding the standard Moto3 Honda NSF for the first time on the Thruxton circuit he made significant progress during the two free practice sessions, droping his lap time by almost three seconds on the Friday.

After a rain-affected qualifying session Clark made the best of the final few minutes cutting his time to 1:25.458 and achieved his best qualifying position of eighth.

In race one Clark dropped a place and in the turmoil of the opening laps he dropped back further but recovered to finish in eighth position.

The feature race on Sunday was trimmed from 14 to 11 laps after several delays throughout the day. He made a solid start to the race and scored six more points to add to his eight from the previous day after finishing tenth in the standard class.

Clark has moved up to 13th in the championship despite having only competed in the last three of the seven rounds so far.

He said:” This is my first time at this track and it’s very fast a bit bumpy. I’ve knocked seconds off my time over the weekend.

"It was really exciting in both races because I was battling hard with two or three other riders. I’d like to thank Rob Cameron 151s, Wiz, Shoei, Furgan, TCX, Capelli and Chris Clark Plant Services all of who keep me racing.”