It was a disappointing home round for Jake Dixon at the weekend as the Moto2 season rolled into the UK at Silverstone.
Having qualified from 13th place after an error in qualifying, he was always up against it. He did bring his Marc VDS Racing machine home in 9th place, but after the race he was given a three second penalty which dropped him just outside the top ten in 11th place, but he would have been hoping for a better result in front of his home fans.
Jake retains 3third place in the overall standings with 82 points to his name, 29 behind leader Manuel Gonzalez.
Speaking after the weekend, Jake said: “It’s been a difficult weekend. The race didn’t pan out as I wanted. I was getting overtaken by a lot of riders and didn’t really have a response. When I was in free air, I was pretty quick. That’s obviously frustrating. But there are positives that we can take and a few things we can work on now to improve for the next few races to try and get us back to the front.
“But the main thing this weekend didn’t come in the race; it was doing the special helmet livery for little Luca and the Guintoli family to try and raise as much money as possible for the charity of their choice.
“We’ve raised a lot of money and hopefully we can get the number raised to over 50,000 pounds before the raffle ends. It’s going to a great cause and we’ll have something else going into the raffle. Unfortunately, I didn’t do the helmet justice today and this weekend but the money will be going to help as many people as possible.”
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