FIM-E Pro Stock Bike

Alex Hope (Ivan Sansom photo)

Gert-Jan Laseur (Rose Hughes photo)

Last year’s championship runner-up Gert-Jan Laseur headed up qualifying with 7.1761/182 from his Eurol Oil/Zodiac Buell with tuning guidance provided by a visiting Jackie Bryce over the weekend. Alex Hope rolled into second spot with a 7.2244, whilst Kenneth Holmberg’s event pretty much started and ended with a 7.2988 that gained third on the ladder but a lot of shrapnel from the crank, sleeves, valves and top end. Defending champion Fredrik Fredlund was also struggling, mainly with transmission problems that dropped him to fourth spot.

The quarter finals saw Laseur, Fredlund (with a 7.214/187.33 for the quickest run of eliminations), Hope and Mark Smith progress to the final four. Fredlund appeared to have put his qualifying woes behind him in the top half semi opening out a visible gap over Laseur at the startline that was growing before the PAF Suzuki smacked the finish line blocks. On the lower side, the all-British match up had Smith out of the gate first but was overhauled by Hope’s 7.250.

Final time and Hope left Laseur snoozing at the start (0.041 to 0.115 rts respectively) and out ran the Dutchman with a 7.304 to a 7.341 to pick up his first (and we wager not the last) FIM-E PSB event win.