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Best ever finish for Maxxis at Oulton Park Under: Maxxis Sport on 05 May 2011

At Oulton Park (April 30-May 2) the Maxxis-sponsored MSS Colchester Kawasaki team achieved its best ever Superbike finish as rider Stuart Easton took second place in an action packed second round.   

Having secured the new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R's first podium in the 2011 MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship with a third place in race one, Easton followed it up by going even better in the second race, leading for the majority of laps before finishing second overall.  

Having gained the holeshot, the Scot fought off a determined Josh Brookes for nine laps until the Australian suffered a huge crash at Britten's, firing his Suzuki in the air and narrowly avoiding taking out Easton.  After the resulting safety car, Easton continued to lead the race before eventually being overtaken by American John Hopkins, and took the flag just 0.221 seconds behind the winner.  This fine performance puts Easton second in the BSB standings.

Team mate Gary Mason also made strong progress having discovered a base setting for his bike in morning practice that allowed him to progress through the race and recover from a poor qualifying.

MSS Colchester Kawasaki team owner Nick Morgan said: "What a fantastic weekend, to come away from Oulton Park second in the championship is mega.  For us as a team it is simply terrific, everyone is buzzing and got the results they deserved.  Gary made some huge in-roads in race two, Stuart rode so well in both races and Superstock could so easily have been a double podium.  And we have been lucky, that was so close with Stuart and Josh's bike in race two, I was gutted that the pace car came out as he had built up a decent lead, but I'm happier seeing a pace car than an ambulance!"

MSS Colchester Kawasaki will be looking to maintain this streak when they return to action at Croft in North Yorkshire on May 13-15.